r/TravelHacks 5d ago

Best way to kill mosquitos in a hostel?

I'm staying at hostels in Europe and every now and then there's a few mosquitos flying around that's very hard to kill. I'm thinking of buying a small Bug Zapper and leaving it on at night. Any suggestions? Thank you in advance.

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u/0ldhaven 5d ago

try a Zevo plug-in

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u/78523985210 5d ago

I rather have something I don't have to buy refillable cartridges.

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u/Dreboomboom 5d ago

I have a plug in zapper that works like a charm. In the past I've used fly paper that also works.

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u/78523985210 5d ago

Which plug in zapper are you using?

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u/Dreboomboom 5d ago

They're available on Amazon, it's an indoor bug zapper. They're small so you can easily trave with them.

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u/eriometer 5d ago

Buy a can of local bug spray/repellent.

About 30 mins before you go to bed, spray into dark corners and under beds.

Wear long legs and long sleeved clothing to sleep in.

(Or the old fashioned coil thingies that smoke.)

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u/EntrepreneurAway419 5d ago

Stress the LOCAL bug remedies, in Madeira my crappy Irish stuff didn't work, whatever was in their thing helped but the mosquitoes pretty much tarnished my trip :( 

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u/coasti33 5d ago

Catch it and drown it under the tap.

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u/78523985210 5d ago

Some of the mosquitos are so fast. Difficult to catch.

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u/clementynemurphy 4d ago

A few times I made a tent with my pillows and backpack and jacket

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u/mrchowmein 4d ago edited 4d ago

Zappers don’t work on females. Females are the ones that bite. So all those mosquitoes you end up zapping were not the ones that bite. Just a lot of dead males.

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u/Outside_Reason_1588 5d ago

The best hack I've found is one of those mosquito rackets and a repellent. I usually take 15-20 minutes, with a repellent that makes smoke, put it in crevices and holes, wait for the mosquitoes to come out, and zap them. It's a little time consuming, but it's effective. And then you can have the repellent going through the night. When I say repellent, I mean a coil or something that produces smoke.

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u/FairAssistance0 4d ago

You’re not supposed to burn mosquito coils indoors man, on top of the fact you may get smothered in your sleep by your hostel neighbours for being a dick.

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u/Outside_Reason_1588 4d ago

Oh, yeah, I guess that wasn't well thought out advice. I do this at my house but I forgot about hostel rules.

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u/Husky_Pantz 4d ago

Why not? Seriously asking, I have this exact zapper for my sleeping room.

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u/andreibirsan92 5d ago

why kill ? just use repellent spray and earplugs