Summer buzz

I’ve been considering the wet winter we’ve had and the prospect of the warmer weather bringing swarms of mosquitoes. This made me think of buying a mosquito trap such as the propane-based ones, which attract mosquitoes by producing carbon dioxide. As the world has enough CO2 being produced, I wonder if there isn’t a way to create a mosquito trap that doesn’t create more CO2.

It turns out we have a ready source of CO2, courtesy of our gas hot water heater. If I could somehow make use of the CO2 that’s produced by our water heater so that it traps mosquitoes, that would be the best solution. I wonder what it would take?