more than 300 of these traps have been deployed here in the city in the south of france, in hyeres where surrounded by 1800 hectares of marshlands, where the female mosquito lay their eggs. the hotels lost tourism. people had to leave because they cannot stand the nuisance. so the mayor asked us to find a solution. so probably the thing i hate most about going on holiday is mosquitoes, because theyjust for some reason find me really tasty, and if you go on amazon you can find loads of these little ultraviolet bug zappers that claim to attract and kill them. but here's the thing — mosquitoes are not actually attracted to ultraviolet, they are attracted to carbon dioxide in your breath. each trap releases a mixture of carbon dioxide and a sort of sweaty fragrance that mimics what human smell like, and as mosquitoes approach the trap, they get vacuumed in, into a bag, where they die. the local government here is funding the project and it gets access to an app that shows the location of all of the traps and even how many mosquitoes each one has vacuumed up, and there is a serious side to th