How to use CO2

Biogents offers the outdoor mosquito trap BG-Mosquitaire in two variations:

• The BG-Mosquitaire CO2 trap which includes a BG-Booster CO2 (the CO2 bottle must be sourced separately

• The BG-Mosquitaire trap without the CO2 set. If you want to add CO2 to your BG-Mosquitaire trap at a later date, you can do this by adding the BG-Booster CO2 upgrade set.

The BG-Booster CO2 not only connects the trap to a CO2 bottle (the CO2 bottle must be sourced separately). The BG-Booster also helps to disperse the optimal dose of CO2 to imitate a human. In addition, the release rate can be adjusted to the local and seasonal mosquito situation.

In the following video we show you how to install the BG-Booster CO2 set on your BG-Mosquitaire mosquito trap.

How often you need to change the gas bottle depends on:

• what size you use and
• which release rate of CO2 you use

If CO2 is released continually over 24 hours with our recommended release rate of 0.5 kg/day, a 10kg CO2 tank will last about 20 days.

The BG-Booster CO2 adjusts the amount of CO2 released to the amount that is optimal to attract mosquitoes. Biogents recommends a daily release of 0.5 kg. This is about the amount a small child exhales daily. For comparison, an adult human exhales about 1000 grams of CO2 daily, and an average car produces about 1500 grams of CO2 per 10 kilometers.