{"id":109,"date":"2026-11-13T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-11-13T08:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pittartrap.com\/aedes-or-culex-reading-the-catch\/"},"modified":"2026-11-13T08:00:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-13T08:00:23","slug":"aedes-or-culex-reading-the-catch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pittartrap.com\/?p=109","title":{"rendered":"Aedes or Culex? Reading the catch"},"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\">A catch is data. Before counting, look at what is in the basket: the mix of species tells you which part of the site is producing mosquitoes, and whether the trap is positioned for the species the customer actually cares about.<\/p><p class=\"body-text wp-block-paragraph\">Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus are day biters that breed in domestic containers \u2014 vases, tyres, tanks, blocked gutters. A trap that catches mostly Aedes is usually close to a breeding site, and the fix is often source reduction rather than more hardware.<\/p><p class=\"body-text wp-block-paragraph\">Culex quinquefasciatus is a night biter that breeds in drains and polluted standing water. A Culex-heavy catch near a drain line is expected, and moving the trap away from the drain will not remove the population \u2014 it will just reduce the catch.<\/p><p class=\"body-text wp-block-paragraph\">Anopheles tends to appear near larger water bodies and irrigation. Mansonia near aquatic vegetation. Neither is solved by a single unit; both are reasons to talk about the site rather than the product.<\/p><p class=\"body-text wp-block-paragraph\">Practical habit: empty the basket at the same time each morning, note the species mix for a week, and change one variable at a time. That is a better optimisation loop than buying a second trap.<\/p><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The species in the basket tells you whether the trap is in the right place, at the right height, at the right time of day. Learning to read it is the fastest way to improve a result.<\/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-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-field-notes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pittartrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","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=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pittartrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pittartrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pittartrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pittartrap.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}