How to Make Dengue Mosquito KIller Cheap

Making a homemade mosquito trap is simple and cost effective. Sure there are several pricey traps on the market that could cost you hundreds of dollars. Why should you spend that money when a handcrafted mosquito trap works just as well and costs less?

Mosquitoes are a burden to us all and carry a variety of harmful diseases. Every year you spend a small fortune on ways to repel, control, or trap mosquitoes. With tough economic times and increased cost of living we find ourselves getting creative to save money.

There are two very effective, simple ways to create mosquito control trap. Both, cost pennys to make and require items that can be found inside most households. So lets get creative, efficiently solve your problem, and save some money.

Trap #1:

The Nearly Free Mosquito Killer

Materials Needed:

scissors

a plastic 2 liter bottle

water

heat source

Instructions:

Remove the cap on the empty bottle and cut into 2 pieces. The top portion should be much shorter then the bottom half. Heat the mouth of the bottle and squeeze it until the gap is nothing more then a tiny slit. Invert the top portion like a funnel and fit it into the bottom portion. Fill up with water.

How it works:

Mosquitoes lay eggs on surface rims. The larvae develop and wiggle down the funnel and through the slit, into the bottom. Unable to find their way back to the surface they die of suffocation. As long as the trap is full of water this process will continue to go on.

Trap #2:

The Quick and Dirty Mosquito Trap

Materials needed:

2 liter bottle

2 cups hot water

4 cups brown sugar

2 tablespoon yeast

1 drop dish soap

measuring cup

scissors

thermometer

black paper

Duct Tape

Instructions:

Cut the bottle top off just above the label. Dissolve brown sugar in 2 cups of hot water. Cool the water down to 40 degrees Celsius(see tips). After sugar water is cooled down, pour the mix into the bottom half of the bottle. Add the yeast and dish soap, DO NOT shake or stir . Invert the top half into the bottom half. Yeast ferments and creates carbon dioxide, this is what attracts the mosquitoes. To prevent the top popping off seal the rim of the bottle with tape. Tape the black paper around the bottle.

How it works:

This trap is basically a CO2 generator, much like the pricey traps they sell in stores. Only instead of using propane to create CO2, you use yeast.

* tips:

~ Fill a large bowl with ice cold water. Mix hot water and sugar in a smaller bowl. Place the thermometer inside the small bowl, then place inside the bowl of ice water. If the yeast is to cold it won't rise and grow, if it is to hot the yeast will die.

~ For best results, replace for 2-4 weeks, then replace.

In conclusion there are also a few home remedies that also work effectively to repel mosquitoes.
Basil, catnip, lemon and marigolds work well to repel mosquitoes. Rub on your skin or plant around the 'sitting' areas and water sources in your yard.

Build a bat house. A bat will eat up to twice its own body weight in insects every day.

Dry ice emits carbon dioxide. If you place a block in a remote section of your yard during parties mosquitoes will be attracted to the it instead of your party guests.

Now that you have your arsenal, head out to that yard and defeat the enemy!

Tofu-shaped Breathing Chair

Tofu-shaped Breathing Chair

Taiwanese designer Yu-Ying Wu has created this Tofu-shaped breathing chair, which as Wu said is originally designed to provide a more comfortable sitting for elderly people. The chair is square cube when it is not occupied and it will compress into an armchair when a person sits on it and spring back into a cube when the person stands up.

The chair has won home furniture design concept award in the international “red dot design award” design competition. According to news report in Taiwan, a France company is planning to commercialize the product.

The “breathing chair” looks like a piece of white, square tofu. Wu said that the chair is made of high-density foam plastic that is 100 percent environmentally-friendly. There is a “trick” behind the design of various sizes of holes in the chair – based on professional calculation of the spatial structure, the tofu-shaped chair, coated with three layers of foamed plastic, can “automatically adjust” according to the weight and posture of the person sitting on it.

 

America's most expensive places to live

In the midst of the recession, New Yorkers are cutting back on everything from dining to luxury shopping. Café des Artistes, one of the Big Apple's most storied restaurants, closed in August, in part because of poor business. Chanterelle followed this month. In July, J.C. Penney opened its first Manhattan location, citing local demand for discount merchandise.

These changes make sense. New York tops a recent list of America's most expensive cities, with a measured cost of living surpassing that of Houston, Boston and Washington, D.C. The culprit? High rent: $4,300 a month on average for a two-bedroom, unfurnished luxury apartment. The silver lining: That's down $200 from when the survey was taken in 2008.

Behind the numbers
To determine the U.S. cities where the cost of living is highest, the London office of Mercer, an American human resources consulting company, earlier this year measured the prices of the same basket of goods in 253 of the world's cities. The basket is composed of more than 200 products, representative of executive spending patterns and including everything from rent for a luxury apartment to the cost of a fast-food hamburger. Mercer chose a sampling of U.S. cities to measure — the 10 most expensive of which are listed here.

Location has a lot to do with why New York and Los Angeles top the list.

Before the 1970s, New Yorkers were — in a sense — paid a premium to live in the Big Apple, due to its reputation for crime and filth. But when the city began to experience robust economic growth, demand outweighed supply, and housing prices grew. Though prices are now dropping, and are largely believed to have yet to hit bottom, the area's cost of living, according to Mercer, remains the nation's highest. Its housing cost, according to Mercer, is almost double that of second-place Los Angeles.

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The City of Angels, like New York, attracts go-getters, as well as those looking to live in the city's warm, Mediterranean climate. The recent housing boom lured scores of would-be homeowners who are now facing underwater mortgages and high unemployment, as well as footing bills that come with the nation's second-priciest city.