Ultra Pro 900 | CO2 Mosquito Trap | Outdoor Mosquito Trap | Fly Trap for Gnats, Sand Flies & Black Flies | Mosquito Killer | Flying Insect Trap | Covers 1.5 Acres | Bug Zapper Alternative

Purchaser is the chairman & mosquito inspector for a vector district in South East Oregon with 11 years of experience. I have utilized assorted brands and types of mosquito capture traps for insect identification and eradication. No mosquito trap is effective unless you practice mosquito source reduction by eliminating mosquito larva in standing water, examples catch pots or unused kiddy pools, combined with eradication by utilizing quality mosquito traps, larviciding, and fogging treatments provided by your vector district or private vendor.I assigned the Mega-Pro 900 CO2 trap a five-star rating for the following reasons.The Mega Catch Pro 900 CO2 trap captures four to five times more insects than any other brand of trap we previously utilized over last eleven years. It captures more than 20 times the amount of insects than a standard white light Center for Disease Control (CDC) approved light traps in same location and same time frame.The Mega Catch trap does not normally attract useful insects or pollinators. The oscillating UV light system, optional attractant bar, and heated CO2 gas is effective against mosquitoes, all species of midges, and no-see-ums. During field testing, few useful insects and no pollinators were detected in the trap bags with standard factory settings.The Mega Trap is reasonable well-constructed. The instructional manual provided easy to follow instructions. Set up requires attention to detail or the CO2 system will use excessive gas. The catch bag or cup is sufficiently sized to easily capture more than 30,000 insects. Recommend a buyer purchase two or three additional capture bags as they must be washed and cleaned after use.The Mega Catch Pro comes with a large cup that only needs to be dumped if you are not using capture bags. You will be astounded about how many insects the Mega Catch captures. The Mega Catch trap is rain resistant. The Mega Catch dolly stand option is a good investment.The Mega trap is not perfect in that it has one flaw. The control unit will loss the “time you programed on the clock” if disconnected for less than a minute. The control unit remembers your settings but forgets the time! Without the “time”, nothing else works.Finally, the customer service is outstanding. They actually answer your emails timely. The Mega Catch C.S. folks acknowledge the “time or clock issue” and stated that the “time issue” will be resolved in the future production runs of the control module.Attached pictures explanation;Time set 9 PM to 9 AM, CO2 gas set to 9 PM to 5 AM & setting #3, All other settings are factory. The results are no less than outstanding! In 11 years of mosquito trapping using CDC approved mosquito traps, I have NEVER EVER had the results shown in the two photos. I am guessing at least 20,000 assorted insects.

So I gave it 2 months but have yet to catch over five mosquitos. Asian tiger is what I’m trying to catch. Using co2 and only during day bc fills up with moths at night. Very disappointing product. Direction gave no help to catch mosquitoes. It says add fruit juice to water bowl with dawn soap. Did this and using octonal attractant and co2 still no success. I can be filling the bowl and will get attacked by mosquitoes but yet non are caught. Very disappointed total waste of a thousand dollars. I put out $25 dollar bag of bug poison from Lowes and it did more than this machine in two months. Wish I could get my money back

I have a place on a river. We were getting bitten to death by mosquitoes and no-see-ums. They chased us out of our back yard. I wanted to avoid chemical sprays because of the river. The research pointed me to this product. I bought the 900 Ultra more than two years ago and it has done WONDERS. I initially ran it on full mode and used up a CO2 bottle in a little over a week AND we got our backyard back. I played with locations until I found the most effective one for the primary area we use.Now I run CO2 on level 4 twice a day for about 8 hours total. I use 3-4 bottles per year. This means I pay about $100 per year for CO2. For my area, this is the most effective consumable part to this system. I have a noticeable increase in mosquitoes when I run out of gas. Octenol strips seem to have less impact but I use about 3 per year as well. For me, this is a better investment than hiring a sprayer. For the liquid bath, I find Mexican Coke (with real sugar), water and a drop or two of Method soap works best for our varieties of mosquitoes. Have tried juices, sodas, simple syrup.I left the power supply out over the winter the first year and had to buy a new one. The unit stopped working about 3 weeks ago. I could not get it to respond or turn on. Good news! I thoroughly cleaned the system. It still did not work and I could not get the diagnostics mode to work. After about 10 minutes, I tried diagnostics again and it turned on (no diagnostics). Let it run for 10 minutes and turned it off. Tried diagnostics again. This time it started diagnostics, seemed to "burp" (a technical term ;-) and then it restarted its diagnostics again. This time it passed. Total time invested: about 30 minutes.Lesson: Clean the thing more often... Even though I did not need parts, I love the user serviceable design and modular parts; this was a key reason for buying.

For me, this product (the Ultra) has not been worth the money or effort. Two main issues:1. Catches mostly moths.Some mosquitos, but 90%+ moths. Doesn't really outperform my DynaTrap, which was 1/6 the cost.2. Time consuming to use.The catch basin needs to be cleaned and filled with water (and a drop of detergent) every week, at least. Getting the trap in and out of the cage can be frustrating. The cage door is plastic, with a snap fit that takes some force to open and close, so I wind up spilling 1/3 of the water every time. For such an expensive product, surprising that the cage doesn't have a more user-friendly door.Have to refill the carbon dioxide tank every month or two, depending how often you use the gas. For me at least, that requires a 20 minute drive, leaving the tank over night, and picking it up the next day, for a $30 charge.In retrospect, I wish I'd just purchased a second Dynatrap.