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Anyone tried a Dynatrap?  I always have them bad, but this year has been awful with all the rain.  Give me some relief.

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This comes up weekly on r/austin and anything other than dunks will get crushed by the pro-pollinators.  
 

I’ve tried everything aside from bullshit suggestions on r/austin that clearly don’t work*, including dunks, and the only thing that worked was permethrin fogging.  I’m loath to kill the butterflies, but I also can’t have my kids getting eaten alive when they go swimming or outside briefly without bug spray.  

*building bat houses, Purple Martin houses, releasing dragon flies, planting certain grasses or herbs like  marigold or citronella

 

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Thanks LCHorn. I am sympathetic to the pollinators but damn it sucks to sit in the house and stare at a pool through the screened in porch because the mosquitos have taken over the back yard. And I would have to spray my neighbors' areas too. I have all the good stuff--permethrin and bifen.

Anyone try a Dynatrap? 

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32 minutes ago, squib said:

Anyone try a Dynatrap? 

I tried everything sold at Home Depot and Amazon, including the BioGents Mosquitaire, Tom‘s Mosquito TNT (worse, I misread the website and purchased four boxes of four traps, not just four traps), Spartan Mosqito Tubes, and anything Costco sells (like the Dynatrap-it’ll kill some moths for you while the mosquitos fly on by).  We’ve also done barefoot mosquitos “non toxic” fogging.
 

The only thing I haven’t tried (that I know about) is Mosquito Magnet (uses propane to bait mosquitos).  

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36 minutes ago, LCHorn said:

I tried everything sold at Home Depot and Amazon, including the BioGents Mosquitaire, Tom‘s Mosquito TNT (worse, I misread the website and purchased four boxes of four traps, not just four traps), Spartan Mosqito Tubes, and anything Costco sells (like the Dynatrap-it’ll kill some moths for you while the mosquitos fly on by).  We’ve also done barefoot mosquitos “non toxic” fogging.
 

The only thing I haven’t tried (that I know about) is Mosquito Magnet (uses propane to bait mosquitos).  

 

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On 7/16/2025 at 1:53 PM, squib said:

Thanks LCHorn. I am sympathetic to the pollinators but damn it sucks to sit in the house and stare at a pool through the screened in porch because the mosquitos have taken over the back yard. And I would have to spray my neighbors' areas too. I have all the good stuff--permethrin and bifen.

Anyone try a Dynatrap? 

I use Dynatrap. It's really hard to tell the extent to which it works because 1. We don't have a ton of mosquitoes since both neighbors pay a company to spay and 2. They're so small (here) that it's pretty hard to see them amid all of the other insects caught in the Dynatrap. 

However, I use Dynatrap plus Atrakta to attract mosquitoes and I can count on one hand the number of mosquitoes I've seen on my property this year. Using the Atrakta definitely makes the container fill up much more quickly as well. Again, it's just hard to tell if you actually have any mosquitoes. You may be able to tell much better in Texas, given the avian qualities of the mosquitos there. 

As a side note, I've always been interested in approaches like In2Care, which could be effective with less harm for pollinators, but it's only for professional use.

https://www.in2care.org/mosquito-trap/

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11 hours ago, squib said:

I ordered a Dynatrap last week. I emptied it today. Moths and gnats. Not a single mosquito. 0 stars

Maybe try Atrakta before returning the Dynatrap. I remember reading that they are much more attracted to scent than light. 

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