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After a wet summer and Hurricane Matthew, my Orlando home on a drainage pond was soggy and absolutely overrun with mosquitoes. The lanai and front porch were literally covered with them, and going outside just to walk the dogs was a suicide mission. I was able to knock them down for a few days at a time with hardware store pesticide sprays, but that was getting expensive, gross, bad-smelling and probably toxic. As soon as a new batch would breed and move in from outside the spray radius, the place was uninhabitable again. I did a lot of research on mosquito traps and settled on this one. I know some mosquito species aren't attracted to light, but mine certainly are - any covered areas lit at night were mosquito meet-up zones. I didn't really want to fool around with propane or attractants, and thought I'd just give this a shot. Brother and sister, does it catch bugs! The instructions say to give it 2-4 weeks to have a good effect, but it provided relief on our back lanai literally overnight. I quit spraying once I ordered it, then plugged it in on the lanai when it arrived -- let it sit right on the floor -- and ran away. By morning I had a huge catch of mosquitoes in the trap (along with a load of moths) and none roosting on the walls and ceiling as usual. I was able to walk the dogs without having to slap any skeeters off me. I was so impressed, I ordered another identical unit for the front porch. At this writing, the one in the back has been running for almost a month, the one in front for two weeks. Just for kicks, I thought I'd wait a bit to empty the front unit so I could show what 2 weeks of catch looks like (attached). That's a hefty mass of mosquitoes in there. Thousands, for sure. Feels weighty in the trash bag. The sweet heft of success. I hardly ever see live mosquitoes hanging around the front porch or back lanai any more, and I haven't sprayed again since buying these traps. It's also dried out and cooled down a little -- 60s at night, 80s in the day -- so hopefully that will all work together to interrupt the breeding cycle and get back to a normal level of mosquito annoyance. So, at least for my situation and with my species of light-loving mosquito, this product totally worked. Tips and thoughts: I'm not doing *anything* to maximize my catch. Both units are sitting in a spot on the floor that is convenient for me and near my outlets; people say to put it higher to maximize how many insects you catch. I'm not using any additional lures. I'm still catching a ton of bugs and most of them are the targets - mosquitoes. Maybe I'll play with better placement and lures eventually, but for me this product has been "set and forget." The visible light also means it catches a lot of moths. I don't have anything against moths especially. My high tech solution -- other than the 2-week catch I photographed for visceral effect -- is to just open the trap when I see moths bouncing around in there. They'll usually flutter right out. I might free a live mosquito or three ... but they're dumb, they'll be back. This model does cast a fairly bright visible blue light. I'm about 100% sure that this visible light is the primary reason it works so well for me, but if you were wanting to use it somewhere that you want to keep dark, that's a non-starter. It's labeled as "whisper quiet," but as others have pointed out, the fan does have an audible hum. To me, it sounds a lot like a buzzy AC circuit, or the humming of a pot on an induction range. It's not awful, but it's not silent. Both of my traps sound identical. Repeating what everybody says: turn it on and leave it on; don't shut it off unless you're emptying the catch bin. Just toggling this trap on when you want to go outside does not work. If hungry mosquitoes have a choice of you or the trap, they'll go for you. You want the trap to vacuum them and their families up when you're not there, and they don't have anything better to do than go check out that funny blue light. The instructions say to put the trap far from your living area, and I did that -- mine is about 30 feet from where I usually sit. But I'm fairly certain that an as-yet unkilled mosquito, hungry for blood, is going to zoom right to me and ignore the trap entirely. The effective defense seems to be to make all those mosquitoes dead, or interrupt the breeding cycle so they never get born, well before you present yourself. Since the light seems to be a very effective part of the lure (at least for my mosquitoes) avoid having other bright lights nearby that may seem more attractive. My traps catch the most mosquitoes when the lanai or porch lights are off at night. I'm planning to switch all my exterior lights to motion sensors for convenience and security with minimum bug appeal. I'm continuing to do all the common sense, non-pesticide things everyone should do to control mosquitoes: get rid of standing water, avoid over-irrigate, treat unavoidably wet areas with Bt ("Mosquito Dunks"), etc. But these traps seem to have made the critical difference in preventing re-infestation from elsewhere. It's really been transformative and wonderful. A final unsolicited editorial comment on the UV + TiO2 = CO2 lure technology: I don't personally believe in it. While the photocatalysis reaction is a genuine phenomenon, scientists have not been able to measure any carbon dioxide plume coming from DynaTrap units (e.g. [...]) and even just thinking theoretically, I head-scratch over where you'd get enough carbon out of other atmospheric carbon compounds to make this a meaningful lure effect ... VOCs? Organic emanations from dead bugs in the catch bin? But I'll give DynaTrap and their resellers a pass on what is possibly a bit of snake oil here, since this trap absolutely does work --- albeit I think for other reasons. It seems well-made, does what it says on the tin, effectively reclaimed my outdoor living areas within days of deployment, and ended my overdeployment of insecticides. I'll report back on reliability after I've run them for a while longer.

This is the second Dynatrap that I have purchased. I purchased a smaller one. It did a great job but I decided the unit wasn't large enough for the size of my property and the rural nature of where I live. I purchased this larger model on April 17, 2021. It did exactly what I needed it to do and worked better given the size of my yard. Near the end of the season the bulb went out. I assumed that since it was the end of the season the bulb had just "burned out" so I put it away for the winter. No issue, right? I ordered a new bulb a little over a week a week ago. Installed it when it arrived. Well, issue...Plugged it in and the new bulb did not light up but the fan was running. Now, realize this is about 3 weeks after the 1 year warranty had expired. And I had never registered the unit for warranty purposes. I sent an email to they folks at Dynatrap on Saturday 5/7 explaining what i just stated above. Received an email on Monday 5/9 that started with an appology for my issue. Email stated there must be an internal issue with the unit, that it was covered under the warranty and that an order was placed for a new unit that would arrive in 5 to 7 days. It arrived 3 days later...at no cost to me. AND, no need to ship back the old unit. The folks at Dynatrap make a great and effective product. And they stand behind it! They have great customer service! These are rare qualities for some companies but Dynatrap possess them ALL! I highly recommend this product and this company!

I researched this product thoroughly before my purchase. My patio area is thick with mosquitoes making it all but impossible to enjoy the out of doors, at least during mosquito season. I read glowing reviews of how effective the Dynatrap is at catching mosquitoes and clearing them from your immediate area. But I also read negative reviews both on Amazon and on the web about how utterly ineffective the Dynatrap is at catching mosquitoes. So I left my research feeling equivocal about how good this thing might work. But I decided to give it a try mostly out of desperation because foggers, citronella candles and incense just doesn't work at all. I really want to like the Dynatrap...it's attractive, well built, super easy to use and clean, well designed and, despite what some reviewers have said ...it is whisper quiet. You have to basically put your ear physically on the unit to hear the fan. And I like the long power chord. Some people complained about bulb life but I don't think I'll be one of those: nothing is perfect and if the dang thing really works then changing an expensive bulb a few times a year would be oh so worth it. But here -in lies the rub: does it actually attract and catch mosquitoes?? Just to nudge the odds in my favor, I bought 2 different mosquito lures and placed them inside the Dynatrap bug trap basket as recommended. The unit doesn't need extra mosquito attractant because it produces it own mosquito lure in the form of a CO2 trail emitted by the unit. But I was told that a separate mosquito lure would increase my catch rate and that sounded good to me: anything to get rid of the little buggers. However, I'm sad to report that, after 3 days of use, I haven't trapped a single mosquito. This unit seems to mostly attract moths which I don't really want to kill. The trap basket was mostly moths and flying gnats (a problem of thier own since they bite too). But no mosquitoes...even with 2 extra lures! To be fair, Dynatrap does say very clearly in the instructions that it takes several days or weeks before you start to see results in terms of reduced mosquito numbers. And that only makes sense since what you are basically doing with any mosquito trap is reducing the local breeding population thus making lower population numbers with each successive generation of mosquitoes. So I get it: a few days does not an effective trap make. However, you'd think it would trap ONE of the little suckers in 3 days! And I checked the basket carefully because I wanted to free the months. So...3 stars for now but I will revisit this review in a few weeks when I will hopefully have good news about how fantastic this product works on mosquitoes. Fingers crossed. Update: Well I've had the DynaTrap for over a month now. The lightbulb burned out after only a couple weeks. The unit trapped maybe 3 mosquitoes despite it being deployed in the center of our back patio, literally surrounded by clouds of mosquitoes. Not to mention the fact I placed 2 different mosquito attractants in the unit to increase my catch rate. The only thing this product did was trap lots and lots of moths. It did precious little to trap mosquitoes. I would highly suggest avoiding this product unless you want to spend lots of money on replacement bulbs and rid your yard of moths. Extremely disappointed.

We live near a river with plenty of slow-moving inlets / wetlands in upstate NY. While it is an urban area, the mosquitos are abundant in our yard because of the proximity to these breedings grounds. We bought this because higher-priced alternatives seemed to lack the justification for such a large expenditure, while lower-priced versions didn’t have some essential features we were looking for (C02 etc). Firstly, this won’t eliminate your mosquito problem. It is intended to interrupt the breeding cycle, which means it will reduce heavy local populations where they may be an optimum environment for reproduction. We’ve had ours running for a full season at this point (having just put it away for winter). The basket is full of insects - which would be great if it wasn’t so gross. But it works, and the reduction in mosquitos was observable. We placed it about 50ft away from our patio, but we may consider having it closer next year to capture some of the little monsters who didn’t spot it before they spotted us. I was concerned about weather-resistance when it came through. But we had it outside and relatively open to the elements for six months (it was against a garage with a slight roof overhang, so was somewhat protected but not shielded from heavy rain). There is no indication of damage and the unit operated as expected through all kinds of weather. It does capture pretty much everything that flies, unfortunately. This sadly included butterflies and moths, as well as some wasps (I didn’t see any bees but I imagine some ended up in there). I think the other, larger insects do also obscure the number of mosquitos that it captures. The mosquitos seem to die faster than the others, so I have opened it up on occasion to let butterflies / moths out (and I didn’t notice any mosquitos escaping). Overall, this was a good purchase and did what we were expecting it to do.

This thing is amazing! A few things you might want to know: Its bigger than you think it is. You really cant turn it off or you will let a lot of bugs back out. It will collect so many bugs that it will start to smell after a while. I had a lizard get in it once that I let out but I'm not sure if it could have gotten out on its own. I live in Florida on a canal so we have plenty of opportunity for bugs. You can stand and watch things thing suck hundreds of bugs in. I empty it about once a month and there are what looks like hundreds of thousands of mosquitoes in it when I do. I also have some bug zappers but those are absolutely pathetic compared to this thing. If they weren't so expensive I'd get 1 more for my dock. Suggestion for the manufacturer: Put some kind of a slide closer on the basket that will seal it or prevent the bugs from flying out if you need to turn it off.

This is a bright bluish light that attracts most all night flying insects. Caught probably fifty times more non-biting insects than mosquitos. Did reduce the mosquito population, but not sure really worth it, as caught so many moths etc., about a coffee can full of moths every nite. I don't know what good moths etc. do, but know they don't bite. Was able to release some of the very large moths that did'nt get sucked down into the bottom every morning, but really felt like maybe doing more harm than killing off some mosquitos was worth. So it is a toss up, is it worth killing a few mosquitos and at the same time literally slaughtering the moth population. I don't know - it's a personal decision. FYI - I was using the mosquito bait for this test all the time. This was over a two week time period, in late July in upper Michigan. -Later comment after more usage. Bulb lasted just over two weeks, then burned out. This was annoying, all that money for a product that failed after two weeks, my opinion now is "Do not purchase, this is a big waste of money."

It captures the bugs for sure, mosquitoes and flies have reduced drastically.. One big problem i have is that it advertises to leave it on 24/7 after doing this, like about a dozen honey bees/ mason bees. I do not like that at all.. Solution: only run during night time, its not worth killing bees. Great product otherwise, would recommend.. Update: after only running at night, there is no way to stop it from decimating my population of beneficial bugs. It killed scores of mantids, honeybees, lady bugs and lace wings over the heat wave. Im sorry to say I would no longer recommend this product to anyone. If it wasnt too late I'd get a refund

I bought this as a recommendation by our pest control guy. I bought the one that has a range of about 1/4 acre; however, it was more accurate to say it covered 1/4 of a foot.. I sat a few feet away from this while getting eaten by mosquitoes! I’m not sure why. We ran it for the 2 weeks, continuously, as stated. It did catch tons of flying insects, but very few mosquitoes. The bulb ended up burning out after about a month! (Which isn’t really a great deal considering the fact that you’re supposed to run this continuously for it to be effective!) So we probably won’t replace the bulb, as I’m reading it can be pricey. And considering it didn’t deter the mosquitoes much, I’ll probably try something else. The only good thing about this is that it was easy to empty the bugs that were killed and my chickens enjoyed eating them.

Todavía no elimina todos los zancudos! Y la lámpara se fundió!!!!!! Donde puedo conseguir el repuesto del foco????