Comments on: A New Korean Death Chamber!

By: Around the Corner… : gordsellar.com

Around the Corner… : gordsellar.com — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 15:44:33 +0000

[...] that is detailed here (though I first read about it here, and I think he first read about it here). I’ll post an update about whether it works. Now, I just need to get myself some big empty [...]

By: Death Fan Redux — 2008 | The Marmot's Hole

Death Fan Redux — 2008 | The Marmot's Hole — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:44:55 +0000

[...] have tried to find new and better ways of killing mosquitoes but the mosquito-death-fan is a dream come true called “skeeter [...]

By: Remort

Remort — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 22:27:36 +0000

Robert: Let’s see the carnage of mosquito corpses!

–Remort

By: gordsellar

gordsellar — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 18:02:48 +0000

I get bugged plenty by mosquitoes in Korea, even if I shower before bed. I suspect different people handle the bits differently, but also that some people attract mogi more than others. It could be the pecularities of body chemistry, as well, especially with relation to how that affects body scent. Apparently I smell good… to mogi, anyway.

By: R. Elgin

R. Elgin — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 05:24:37 +0000

Zhang, so far the traps work just a little. It seems that if people are around, the mosquitos prefer people over the traps if the two are in the same area. I guess this means I need to put these traps out away from people. Position seems to be important.

By: Zhang Fei

Zhang Fei — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 14:58:31 +0000

All these comments are well and nice, but the burning question remains - does the contraption work?

By: nerdieboy

nerdieboy — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 07:24:15 +0000

I am of Korean descent but don’t get bitten by mosquitoes much, save for one weekend in Chuncheon when I stupidly left the window open in a drunken haze and awake the next morning to find my legs completely covered with bites. Remort is right, Asian mosquitoes are brutal; I never get bitten like that here (LA). I think the ones you see in Korea are probably a different species or maybe even genus (?) than the ones you normally encounter in North America.

I’ve also heard conflicting stories about how often Asians and Caucasians are bitten by mosquitoes and tried to look it up- didn’t find anything conclusive about the correlation between race/diet and bites but it’s still sort of interesting:

“Scientists do know that genetics account for a whopping 85% of our susceptibility to mosquito bites. They’ve also identified certain elements of our body chemistry that, when found in excess on the skin’s surface, make mosquitoes swarm closer.
‘People with high concentrations of steroids or cholesterol on their skin surface attract mosquitoes,’ Butler tells WebMD. That doesn’t necessarily mean that mosquitoes prey on people with higher overall levels of cholesterol, Butler explains. These people simply may be more efficient at processing cholesterol, the byproducts of which remain on the skin’s surface.
Mosquitoes also target people who produce excess amounts of certain acids, such as uric acid, explains entomologist John Edman, PhD, spokesman for the Entomological Society of America. These substances can trigger the mosquitoes’ olfactory sensations, or sense of smell, causing them to launch their “landing” onto unsuspecting victims.”
http://foxnews.webmd.com/conte.....ss_foxnews

Also:
“The females of blood sucking species locate their victims primarily through scent. They are extremely sensitive to the carbon dioxide in exhaled breath, as well as several substances found in sweat. Some people seem to attract mosquitoes more than others. Empirical studies of mosquito bites suggest that the risk of being bitten follows an approximately negative binomial distribution. Being male, being overweight, and having type ‘O’ blood may increase the risk of being bitten. Mosquitoes can detect heat, so they can find warm-blooded mammals and birds very easily once they get close enough.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M.....al_history

By: Iceberg

Iceberg — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 03:18:55 +0000

My comment was a joke too - aimed at the absurdity of singling out one group (or person) for blame for the “moral decline” of another group. I thought that was clear, but since my writing is sh*t these days, it’s quite possible it wasn’t; so here I am driveling on.

Time for lunch.

By: dogbertt

dogbertt — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 01:50:47 +0000

I guess that makes me all the more entitled to bed the sisters and cousins of the English-teaching and law-talking lotharios.

All’s fair in ublove and war, eh?

By: kushibo

kushibo — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 01:20:23 +0000

I do indeed have a significant amount of “Caucasian blood” flowing through my veins. One would think my whiteness iis apparent from pictures I’ve posted. And I guess that makes me all the more entitled to bed the sisters and cousins of the English-teaching and law-talking lotharios.