Ils inventent un piège anti-moustiques révolutionnaire

This is the story of two childhood friends – “we’ve known each other since we were 6!” – who grew up in the Camargue, a region infested with mosquitoes. At thirty, Pierre Bellagambi and Simon Lillamand decided to join forces and tackle this scourge. They designed a mosquito trap called Qista, based on an innovative and ingenious principle. The trap is a decoy. “It simulates human respiration with CO2 and an olfactory lure. This signals to the female mosquito, which is searching for a warm-blooded meal, that there’s someone inside to bite. She approaches and, in her flight, is sucked into a net,” explains Simon Lillamand. An environmentally friendly way to stop their rampant reproduction: a mosquito can lay up to 200 eggs in 48 hours. #mosquito #arles #camargue #qista #innovation