u/atomicpeanut3

Methods of Killing Mosquitos with Death Model Train

Hi everyone,

I am a undergraduate Public Health student and as I learn more I understand more of how mosquitos spread diseases and methods of their population control. I also do robotics and 3d printing as a hobby, along with many other relevant things. I have been designing a "Death Train" to help mitigate the problem. Note this is more of a passion project and not an attempt to exterminate the mosquito family. (It is a model train, I don't know what size but that will be determined later)

The current design is a small track, a loop of some sort, during peak mosquito hours the train will go out and stop at an intended point in the track, and attached will be rail carts, made with a one way entrance lid like many bug traps, and as of now a yeast and sugar combo for CO2 production (please comment any better ideas if you have them), then the train will take them back to the station and there I will have some sort of automated process to kill them, not sure if it'll be fire, gases, or something else, but I want it to be quick, and that's where I came to ask. If you have any suggestions or ideas on the best way to kill these creatures, please inform me. All and any advice is welcome.

This is, once again, a passion project, I'm only doing it for fun and it's a nice hobby to make interesting things. I'm not here to ask if it's possible so please if you feel the need to snark save it. I hope you all have a fantastic day and I hope to hear from all of you.

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u/atomicpeanut3 — 3 days ago