Mosquito Magnet MM3300B Executive Mosquito Trap and Killer - Protect Up to 1 Acre - Attract, Trap and Kill Mosquitoes and Other Flying Insects

We live in south Florida on an 1/8 acre lot surounded by canals and this is the catch from the first 2 weeks. I'll be collecting 2 week samples to see if the catch declines over time. I'm still getting bit in the yard and to many variables to consider to be able to say if the machine was worth the cost. It's very expensive and if it was half the price I'd be buying one for all my neighbors. Between propane and attractant you also carry an on going cost of around 25/month to run it.

I dont usually write reviews however I felt the need to write this one. I live in NJ and we had a very wet spring and humid summer so the skeeters were everywhere and no respect for the apex predators of the world......lol I purchased the most expensive MM thinking, hey no wires means I can place it anywhere in the yard. I purchased the bought together stuff thinking I would need them and....NOT. The air canister things dont even go with this machine. It assembled easy and I placed it in the yard. I have a half acre with woods behind the house. I placed it at the rear of the yard next to the woods. After a few days I checked it hoping to see alot of dead mosquitos and to my disappointment maybe a dozen or so. I ended up moving the thing all around the yard in different spots and to my surprise, NOTHING....again and again. After 3 weeks I went to check on it again and found the battery was dead. I charged it for 12 hours found the light green and placed it back in the machine. It turned on for a second and would not stay on. I called MM customer service and they told me to charge the battery for 24 hours, if that didnt work there may be a problem with the main part of the machine or I would have to purchase a pack of 2 new batteries. I was stunned by this response. This was purchased 3 weeks ago!! I charged the battery for 24 hours and it did not work. I sent it back battery and all...... and it didnt work very well at attracting mosquitos......I attract more sitting in the yard...... buyer, look for another option.

I rarely write reviews if I'm happy with a product. Lazy, but that's me. But I was looking at ordering one for my sister as a gift and saw all the negative reviews. I just don't see these problems. I guess sometimes people get one with a faulty battery or some other factory build problem and they review while the satisfied customers don't. And I've found that with a lot of things I purchase many negative reviews come because people don't read the instructions. Like in this case using the right "bait", Lurex or Octenol, depending on what part of the country you live in, putting it in the right location, or not realizing that there is a timer that shuts it off (if you set it right) for up to four hours during the parts of the day and night when the mosquitoes aren't active. Anyway, everyone in my family has one, they are very effective (I catch hundreds of mosquitoes in a week when we've had a rainy spell)-- my yard stays basically mosquito free, and the battery lasts for months. One full propane tank lasts 3-4 weeks depending on how many hours a day you run it. It's expensive, but since we had one family member almost die from West Nile Viral Encephalitis, (coma, hospital for a couple of months, rehab for a year) worth every penny of it to us. Again though it works best if you keep it running for at least the minimum time everyday and give it a week or two to clear out the mosquitoes in your neighbors' yards too.

Hard to keep running unless temperature is 55f or higher so I missed out on killing mosquitos early on in the year, battery usually dies within 1 week, one of my batteries will only last about 3 to 4 days,could just have had a bad batch of batteries i guess. Now that temps are in the 60's to 70's I'm having to dump the trap once a week because it is absolutely packed with mosquitos. I have 2 of these by my cabin and I would say it reduces the amount of mosquitos by 85 to 90 percent, I might have a handfull flying around the cabin but as soon as I go to my other lot I'm getting swarms of mosquitos, so they do work.

I have been using these several of these units for 15 seasons. When they run, they can catch a lot of mosquitos and make your backyard livable. Because of this I mostly forgave the finicky and unreliable nature of the units. However, I recently bought a new unit from another local merchant. I have tried for the past month to get it to start and stay running, even after substantial effort and troubleshooting on my end (using battery and propane tanks that work on my other unit) and calls into their support. At this point their customer support says I need to get warranty service from a 3rd party, here's a list of servicers, good luck! The first one I called on the list said they do not do warranty service because the company won't pay them for their time!!!!. The Mosquito Magnet company doesn't even have its own service center anymore, so you are left calling a random list of companies to see if one can help, and reexplaining the whole problem yet again. In the past I have had both warranty and non-warranty service performed directly by the company's factory. Apparently, they changed their "policy" last September and no longer offer factory service. In my mind they don't really want to sell this product anymore and I'm just a sucker buying out their remaining inventory. My local retailer is trying to help get a refund, and I have no intentions are supporting this company or product with any of my business in the future.