Pestrol Outdoor Dominator

Its not called the Dominator for nothing – Mozzies are the problem and we wanted something new to test out, that wasn't a zapper. We had roasted too many non-mozzies in the past and not one zapper we had owned ever seemed to get mozzies in any way that counted! Frustrating. So we invested in this unit which says "uses black light, heat and colour to effectively lure and eliminates mosquitoes."

We got the largest model which covers an acre. It's 4.6kg. It's very large and is reminiscent of a pot belly stove, but the basket that gets all the insects is quite easy to remove, you just have to pull the unit down to do it. We can confirm that it DOES make a very big dent in the mosquitoes as we felt plagued before this went up, but now we hardly notice them. Our issue with this thing is that it kills so much more wildlife than it advertises that we aren't sure we should keep this going. Ours is basically full of moths (dead and alive) every day (which it does tell you it attracts on the web-site). Not only those, but beetles of all kinds get in there too and so many other things you've never seen or heard about. The only saving grace is that there's a lot of things that pass through the fan system and aren't killed on the way. So every day you need to open it up and let all the living things fly out as well as tap out all the others crawling around in it. There also tends to be quite a few moths and flying things trapped between the fan and the clever doors that open to let things in but not out. So "assist" all those out as well.

I suspect there's a big difference between using this thing in suburbia vs using it in the bush as we do. We would have a lot more diversity (or we used to anyway). Time will tell.