The mosquito bucket of doom works — LessWrong

Claude

Summary. A LessWrong post reporting on the 'mosquito bucket of doom': a simple DIY trap made from a bucket of standing water treated with Bti (a bacterial larvicide sold as mosquito dunks). Female mosquitoes are lured to lay eggs in the attractive stagnant water, but the larvae are killed before they can mature, turning the local mosquitoes' own breeding instinct against them. The author reports firsthand evidence that the approach noticeably reduced mosquito pressure around their home, at trivial cost and effort.