Photocatalytic inhalation fly trap.

I don't really have a problem with them. That's what makes testing these things a bit harder. I'll guess you trap might be the bag with liquid type?

Big Clive

Do you have trouble with summer flies in the IOM..? if so I'll send you a trap that will catch a pound of the bloody things..

Your comment on insect intelligence is addressed, with academic references, in The Honey Factory- Jurgen Tautz & Diedrich Steen. It would be interesting when you carry out the insect experiments if you could correlate death rate with ommatidium number, and see if Mr Bercow is correct: "The eyes have it". Or whether any avoidance of turbulence, as you suggested derives from another sense.

I thought high energy UV hitting catalysts like titanium dioxide would cause dangerous hydroxyl radicals and that it's just as bad as running an ozone generator, I wouldn't use it to attract mozzies

Also, mozzies fly upward to the blue light, so that part of the design is actually sensible. The CO2 is important, this thing seems unlikely to generate that

Moz in Oz

I have a similar one using a CF UV bulb + photocatalyst and it works better than any of the others I've found. I think the theory is sound. And I would love a low voltage DC version, because 5W DC is better than 20W AC when camping. But apparently this device is not what I'm looking for.

Moz in Oz

I was a little disappointed you didn't show a dark shot of the thing at the end of the video after seeing the thumbnail. Looks pretty groovy, I wonder if the UV + funky guard shape is meant to look like a plant in low light to the bugs.

It looks brighter in the picture.

Big Clive

The picture for this episode shows the leds reflecting really well off the white entrance grid. Is it really that bright or just a photo effect?

if it has LED's Big Clive will disassemble it to see how it is built

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