{"id":108,"date":"2026-11-13T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T08:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pittartrap.com\/siting-a-trap-four-decisions\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T08:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T08:00:23","slug":"siting-a-trap-four-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pittartrap.com\/?p=108","title":{"rendered":"Siting a trap: four decisions that matter more than wattage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-group section is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><div class=\"wp-block-group prose is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\"><p class=\"body-text wp-block-paragraph\">Most complaints about a trap that &#8220;does not work&#8221; are siting complaints. Four decisions cover the majority of them.<\/p><p class=\"body-text wp-block-paragraph\">Height. Host-seeking mosquitoes fly at the height of a host \u2014 roughly 1 to 1.5 metres for a standing person, lower for a seated one. A trap hung at 2.5 metres on a wall catches a fraction of what the same unit catches at shoulder height.<\/p><p class=\"body-text wp-block-paragraph\">Shade. During the day, most species rest in shaded, humid vegetation. A trap in full sun is a trap in the wrong room. Put it at the edge of planting, under a canopy, or against a shaded wall.<\/p><p class=\"body-text wp-block-paragraph\">Wind. A plume that is stripped away never reaches an insect. Shelter matters more than exposure: a corner, a hedge line, the lee side of a building. In exposed sites, lower the gas flow and move the trap closer to cover.<\/p><p class=\"body-text wp-block-paragraph\">Distance to resting cover. Traps work best within a few metres of where insects rest, not in the middle of a lawn. If the catch is thin after a week, move the unit three metres before changing anything else.<\/p><p class=\"body-text wp-block-paragraph\">None of this is a specification. It is the difference between a product and a result, and it is the part a distributor can teach a customer in five minutes.<\/p><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Height, shade, wind and the distance to resting cover decide most of a trap performance before the unit is even switched on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pittartrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pittartrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pittartrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pittartrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pittartrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pittartrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pittartrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pittartrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pittartrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}