DynaTrap DT2000XL 1 Acre XL Mosquito and Insect Trap - Black

This works very well. I live in the worst area I've ever been in (including deep woods camping camping) in terms of summer biting insects. I bought the land during the winter so didn't know how bad it would be - lesson learned. I bought this to try to get some relief from the constand deluge of hungry mouths every June-August. It totally works. A few things you should know though:1. This needs to run sort of constantly for a week or so to really clean the area out of everything. During that time you really can't turn it off without releasing all the caught insects from the trap below. The flow of air from the fan is the only thing keeping them from escaping - the spring loaded doors do not work - at least not completely - to keep the insects in. The insects are essentially killed by dehydration - which is cruel... but after a decade of being eaten alive, I'm open to a little cruelty to get some of my yard back. If you DO want to turn the unit off, you can fill a water sprayer with water and spray the lower cage with water to immobilize everything inside giving them wet wings. Then you can pop the trap off and crush the inhabitants... this might also be more humane that allowing them to die slowly anyhow. But if you do turn it off with live insects inside, they WILL fly away - at least the small ones, which are generally the ones you actually wanted to catch.2. This WILL catch all sorts of moths, little ones, medium ones, big beautiful luna moths... If you have a problem with that, this unit will be an issue for you. At night, the moths are attracted to the UV light like moths to... a UV light. They'll fly in and you'll dehydrate them to death in droves. The best solution that I've been able to come up with to get around this is to put some wire lath around the top to prevent entry to larger moths. I did this and it kept the big ones from being sucked in, but the small ones still of the way of the mosquitoes.Aside from those two notes, I highly recommend this device if you want to clear out a large area of biting insects. I hate junk products - this is NOT a junk product.

The mosquitos have been bad this year in Northern Illinois.I bought this trap a little over a month ago, and by this point the difference in mosquitos is noticeable.It's not 100% perfect, but they have undoubtably decreased. Now, I can go out in the yard and might expect to get a random bite or two if I'm unlucky. Previously, just setting foot out the door would be a guaranteed 3-5 bites. At least a half a dozen were common just walking to the mailbox and back. Now? No concerns at all.And it's not that the mosquito population has dropped in general around town—when I'm outside away from home (at my parents, the drive-in movie theater, just elsewhere in the neighborhood)—it's the same drill. Constant irritating itchy bites. But at home? Practically nothing. I'm eagerly looking forward to next spring when I can put this thing out in March and hopefully interrupt their breeding cycle from the beginning and be in the clear the rest of the summer.The downside is that it attracts and catches lots of other bugs too—I've decimated the may beetle population, it catches tons of moths, and I've rescued a few lightning bugs from it (though they seemed to wise up and stay away fairly quickly). It also has caught a few dozen flies and untold numbers of gnats, along with hundreds of mosquitos. So if you're worried about indiscriminate capture of other bugs, you may want to reconsider this trap.But otherwise? It's barely audible, the lights are unobtrusive at night, and it's been running along just fine through several severe thunderstorms. So far, I'd highly recommend it.

I decided to order this as my grandsons were getting eaten alive by mosquitoes in my backyard, I don't have a large property but I do have standing water in our pool (probably not a huge issue because it's chlorinated), in our Koi pond (I don't think Koi eat mosquito larvae), and a drainage ditch at the back of my property that often collects water after it rains. This device is fairly large and I thought it best to keep it under some sort of cover so I hung it from our pool equipment room ceiling (exposed to the outside) which is fairly near the kids playground and pool but far from our outdoor entertainment area. For additional effect I also used a packet of Flowtron Octenolol mosquito attractant that conveniently came with double-sided tape. I've had it up for a few weeks now and it definitely is catching a lot of bugs. I don't know how many are mosquitoes though as I haven't opened it. I wanted to give a sufficient amount of time for the bugs it caught to "dehydrate" first. I can see a number of dead moths in the receptacle/cage though. The receptacle/cage is very easy to clean remove and replace without taking down the entire unit. All you need to do is to give it a twist. It's not as quiet as I hoped but the noise isn't overly disturbing. I still can hear the fan noise from this unit over my pool pumps.Edit: I wanted to edit my review based on about a month and a half of continuous use. My bulbs went out after about a month despite having the Dynatrap located under a roof outside. The bulbs are supposed to be replaced ever 4 months or so anyway but it makes me question how cumbersome bulb replacements will actually be. In order to remove the bulb you have to remove 2 plastic covers protecting the bulb ends from the elements. Because of the position of the screws for these plastic covers under the top of the Dynatrap it makes it difficult to remove. I ended up having to remove the entire top by unscrewing 3 small screws first before I was able to get to the 2 screws holding the plastic protecting plates in place. The bulbs themselves were easy enough to replace but Dynatrap could have made this process considerably more user friendly just by engineering plastic protective plates that are held in place without screws.So far as mosquito control goes the jury is still out. I had a noticeable mosquito problem and they still seems to be present despite using the Dynatrap in addition to Lurex3. The light was out though so I'm still hopeful it will do some good.