Jennyking Company Limited, the authorized dealer of Mosquito Magnet in West Africa, has introduced the Mosquito Magnet, a machine that continuously eliminates blood-seeking insects, such as mosquitoes, black flies, sand flies, etc from our neighbourhoods.

Explaining how the machine works, a release signed and issued by Ms. Agnes Bruce, marketing associate of the company, states that the Mosquito Magnet mimics a person's breath by catalytically converting propane gas, into a plume of carbon dioxide, heat, and moisture.

Mimicking the by-product of breathing in mammals, this irresistible mixture attracts female mosquitoes, the ones that bite, toward the trap, where they are vacuumed into a net, dehydrate, and die.

It said the Mosquito Magnet technology was developed over nearly a decade during which Biophysics entomologists worked closely with the US Department of Agriculture, Department of Environmental Management, and the US Centres for Disease Control.

Placed where biting insects breed, near foliage or water, and not near people, the machine immediately starts to draw biting insects to it and away from people.

Used continuously over a six-to-eight-week period, the Mosquito Magnet will collapse the biting insect population in the area.

Since a female mosquito produces about 300 offsprings over its four-week life span, for every 1,000 females trapped, 300,000 potential offsprings are eliminated.

As succeeding generations are eliminated, the population in that area collapses.

In independent tests in an area, the Mosquito Magnet trapped in excess of 100,000 mosquitoes per night.

The Mosquito Magnet is environmentally friendly, uses no pesticides, and releases no harmful substances.

This product covers 3/4 to 1-acre radius and is suitable for homes, hospitals, hotels, beach resorts, camp sides, lawns, poolsides, and for other commercial uses, the release stated.