Video streaming of tonight's presentation (do not need a facebook account to watch):
https://www.facebook.com/friendsofsligocreek/videos/2131269483660555/

Kit Gage and Edmundo Vasquez will share our experiences in Sligo Park Hills with a community effort to install and use Biogents GAT traps throughout the neighborhood. We are both neighbors who took the initiative to start a project in our own neighborhood after hearing about other projects. We are helping other interested neighborhoods to learn about how we did this project to help them replicate their version of it.

The GAT (Gravid Aedes Trap) is a relatively simple set of plastic buckets, mesh and a sticky card, which together will attract female mosquitoes, and get them stuck on the card rather than get out and lay eggs. It works when people also eliminate standing water outside, and install usually 2 traps per yard comprehensively thru a neighborhood. We worked with Dr. Dina Fonseca, a noted entomologist, who has tested these traps also in University Park.

We’ll bring sample traps, show how to set them up. Also we’ll talk about how we organized the neighborhood into subgroups - node leaders - to make sure people knew about the traps and got them and installed them. There will be plenty of time for questions.

Questions? Please contact advocacy@fosc.org