Solar-Based Mosquito Trap for Household Purposes

Abstract

A practical problem in the society has been taken as a challenging problem and efforts are devoted to provide a solution to trap mosquitoes. Mosquito trap which was designed primarily to capture mosquitoes and other insects are attracted to a light source situated on top of the trap and are pulled through a rotating fan into a collapsible cage. The trap is light weight and is suitable for field studies where electric power is unavailable since it operates on dry-cell batteries.Though different methods are available to reduce the mosquito population, a mosquito trap has been designed and developed in order to trap the mosquitoes in the present study. The major components of this trap are suction fan, blue light, trap etc.The blue light is being positioned such that it can attract mosquitoes in the current research. In order to enhance the capacity of mosquitoes trapping, a suction fan is installed ahead of blue light. Based on the above principle the developed trap can attract and trap the mosquitoes and the results obtained from this trap are satisfactory.