And, like any investment, you should give it careful consideration before making a decision on how to spend your money.
Most will attract and kill some mosquitoes.
But only a few can do it consistently, for the right price, and on a scale that will help clear the biting insects from your yard.
Fortunately, scientists have performed tests on these machines to show which ones perform the best and under what circumstances.
When hunting for blood meals, female mosquitoes fly about 25 feet or less off the ground, using several types of sensing organs to find human prey.
Antennae that detect the carbon dioxide released from a person’s lungs and are capable of picking up more than 340 chemical odours produced by human skin, including octenol, a substance also found in perspiration.