Rentokil Initial is seeking viable alternatives to the use of dry ice and bottled carbon dioxide for the attraction of mosquitoes to field monitoring traps.
Current field monitoring traps for vector species of mosquito rely on the deployment of dry ice or the regulated emission of carbon dioxide from pressurised canisters either directly or through the burning of propane. These traps are hampered in their requirement of a power supply and/or the dispensation of relatively high environmental concentrations of carbon dioxide that leaves them open to theft ...