We used the three kinds of mosquito traps (Black-hole with UV light, CO2-baited Mos-hole with the newly developed attracting-solvent, CO2-baited DMS; Digital Mosquito Monitoring System) to know their collecting efficiency for the female mosquitoes in Korean rural areas. The Black-hole mosquito trap caught many kinds of insects including only few female mosquitoes. The Black-hole trap has the UV-light and the light seemed to attract other terrestrial and aquatic insects, such as the common flies, May flies, and the stone flies. Even though the trap was developed to collect mosquitoes, the trap caught only few of female mosquitoes less than 1% of all insects caught. Their selective efficiency to collect the female mosquitoes was relatively lower than other two kinds of traps. The Mos-hole and CO2-baited DMS traps had the collecting efficiency of over 80% to collect the female mosquitoes. The two traps caught the relatively lower number (less than 3% of total insects) of other insects, such as few Coleoptera and Diptera, and their collecting efficiency for the female mosquitoes was very higher. Generally speaking, mosquitoes disliked the UV light but they relatively preferred CO2 gas including the attracting-solvent. They had also been attracted the acidic solvent with CO2 gas. If we could use the efficient and selective mosquito traps with the fully understanding about the mosquito habits, we could assume that we can keep the biodiversity high around the mosquito habitats as well as to save money for the insect pest control.

We developed two kinds of selective mosquito traps. The first selective mosquito trap called Mos-hole was developed with emitting carbon dioxide. The principle was that CO2 gas was obtained from burning liquid naphtha. The process principle was very unique that some heat and moisture which cannot be obtained by using dry ice could be generated additionally. It is the main cause to bring more mosquitoes. The trap is consisted of the acidic and CO2-baited suction system. CO2 was so powerful mosquito attractant gas, and the color and shape of a suction trap was also very important factors for improving the mosquito capturing efficiency. The trap burned naphtha in a rate of 1.3g/hr~3.0g/hr (CO2:50ml/min-110ml/min) and the efficiency of the trap was higher at the burning rate with the high number of female mosquitoes. The second mosquito trap called DMS (Digital Mosquito Monitoring System) is developed for reporting the number of captured mosquito automatically every day. This automatic reporting device called DMS uses CO2 gas as a mosquito attractant and it has a IR array sensor for counting mosquito. We established a sensor network with several DMSs and one server. The server collected the data of each DMS through Internet or CDMA RF communication system. This data were analyzed in the GIS pest prevention information system and were sometimes used as a reference for the next pest control activities. The DMS systems emit CO2 about 300cc/min. CO2 was very effective for attracting mosquito. DMS systems were very effective to count the number of mosquitoes at the certain areas. By using two kinds of mosquito traps together, we could determine the mosquito population size increase and decrease at certain areas