What is a Mosquito Magnet®?
There are literally hundreds of products on the market today which claim to repel, trap, electrocute or otherwise dispatch disease-carrying mosquitoes. Many of these devices or chemical repellents only offer marginal protection, or no substantial protection at all. One promising type of mosquito trap, however, is called a Mosquito Magnetreg;, and it works primarily by imitating one of the best mosquito magnets of them all; human beings. Scientists believe mosquitoes are attracted to carbon dioxide, which explains why they will seek out humans who expel a lot of it through normal respiration. The Mosquito Magnet® uses a tank of compressed propane and a catalytic converter to generate carbon dioxide gas. A patented nozzle design disperses this gas in roughly the same concentration as human respiration. A chemical attractant is also mixed into the carbon dioxide emission. To a mosquito, the Mosquito Magnet® smells just like a large warm-blooded animal. Once the mosquito reaches the source
