Solar-Based Mosquito Trap for Household Purposes

Solar-Based Mosquito Trap for Household Purposes

Sujith Bobba, Selvamuthukumar M., Bachina Harishbabu, Z. Leman
DOI: 10.4018/IJSESD.288536
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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.
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1. Introduction

Mosquitoes are having two wings, thorax, abdomen, six legs, head conjointly occiput and antennae. So it's kinship to insets in the order of dipteral, the true flies. Female mosquitoes are different to the male mosquitoes due to the life cycle stages and having parts also. A mosquito’s principal food is similar to sugar source.

In generally the body structure of mosquitos has 2.5 milligrams weight and in the life span, mosquito takes 5 millionths of blood from human being. Mosquito decided their living locations by feeling of internal sensor system which detect infrared radiation disembogue by warm bodies conjointly chemical/visual sensor at provinces of 25 to 35 meters (82feet-114 feet)

Figure 1.

Mosquito

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Mosquitos are most likely attracting the senior citizens and aged people, since the senior citizens are copious and can accommodate innumerable CO2 and lactic acid. It can sense CO2 and lactic within the limit of 100 feet (36 meters). The receptors enthralled by the mosquito are heat, humidity, radiation. In affixing the above mentioned vibration feelers for perceiving the opposite seek (Muirhead-Thompson, 1991).

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2. Theoretical Background

Figure 2.

Proof showing that the number of people dying and mosquito is the world`s deadliest animal out of those (The Sun, n.d.)

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The word of Mosquitos by “Little fly” and scientific name is Culicidae; it is one of most threatening for diseases in world due to that reason it kills above 600,000 passengers per annual, there are above 2,500 shot of mosquito, and mosquitoes are found in particular region of the world except Antarctica. And they are injurious to all living things and effected to several illnesses.

Bearing in mind their impact, your ability to haul expect mosquitoes to get more surveillance to do. The existence rhythm of mosquito can after 7 days to 30 days contingent on the species (one cycle wrap-up span of time and embryonic fix to terminating fix of mosquito footing. Feminine mosquitoes produce encompassing 300 descendants in solitary life cycle. These descendants will in turn produce 300 descendants during their solitary life-cycle soon. This multiplier effect means from just 2 peer group (60 epoch), a solitary mosquito can build 90000, it half of these are womanly (harsh) mosquitoes, the size of the harsh insect folk will have heightened by 45000augmenting yours changes of being bitten tremendously. Figure 3 below indicates the flow chart of mosquito life cycle.

Figure 3.

Flow chart representation showing the life cycle of the mosquito

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Sensor system is an extraordinary thing of mosquitoes for easily identification of human and animals. The mosquito has some special attractive sensor system (Clements, 1999) in which the Chemical sensor is the first one. The framing of the human body distributes over 350 type of chemical smells, the flying insects can secrete these chemicals and turn up humans, most individuals tend to release more of these chemicals. It is indistinguishable that some citizens sweat more, thus, it’s evident that for the mosquitoes these people become easy targets. Mosquito can sense CO2 and lactic acid limited within 100 feet (36m) away. Visual sensor is the second one by which the mosquitoes have a keen sense of vision. They are able to detect movement easily. The garments that people wear also have an effect on the bite of the mosquito. Mosquitoes tend to unerring black color more precisely and finally the heat sensor by which these mosquitoes can detect heat, human blood and insects and animal as well as living organisms within the limit of 10 feet. In sweltering countries i.e. India, Indonesia, Cambodia, the maturation of the mosquitoes is usually rapid. At present, the sum of mosquitoes has gained 6 spells to the human populace.

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