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Settings: Single Location & Selected Locations
The following settings can be edited for single and multiple locations: CO
2
Settings, Geo Location Tag Settings, Schedule, Mos-
quito Catch Settings, Communication Settings, and Ambient Light Settings.
Click on “
Save
” (8) to save your changes. Click on “
Cancel
” (9) if you want to come back to the previously saved settings.
CO
2
Settings
The field “
CO
2
” in the Location Table of the dashboard provi-
des an estimate for the current fill status of the CO
2
cylinder.
For the estimate to be correct, it is necessary to have a fixed
schedule, and you should make sure to always indicate when
the cylinder was last filled: When you replace the CO
2
cylin-
der, click on the blue “
Fill CO2
” button (10). This will also set
the field “
CO
2
Last Filling
”.
Select the amount of CO
2
in your cylinder in the drop-down
menu “
Cylinder Net CO
2
Weight
” (11).
Adjust the desired flow rate in the drop-down menu “
Flow
Rate
” (12). The default setting is
50 g/h
as this
is the opti-
mum to attract mosquitoes
while at the same time repelling
other insects.
A high level of
CO
2
also gives the best counting accuracy:
CO
2
increases the trap’s specificity for blood-sucking insects,
and it increases the overall catch rate of mosquitoes.
You can also select 10 g/h and 20 g/h; this will reduce the
CO
2
flow but extend the life of the CO
2
tank. When selecting
10 or 20 g/h, the CO
2
flow is reduced by a shortened valve
cycle time. Therefore, nothing needs to be changed on the
pressure regulator of the CO
2
tank.
Geo Location Tag Settings
You can assign two custom geo-tags by writing it in the fields
next to „Custom Group 1“ and „Custom Group 2“ (13). All lo-
cations with the same Custom Group geo-tag will be joined
to a group. This is relevant for the Analyzer that allows you to
analyze your traps based on groups. For example, you could
give custom group names based on the location in a speci-
fic region (neighborhood or similar), or by habitat (swamp,
urban, suburban, forest). In the Analyzer, when selecting for
example: Custom Group 1 = “Neighborhood A”, all locations
that were assigned to “Neighborhood A” will be analyzed to-
gether (comparison of group members in a map, linechart,
and table).
Mosquito Catch Settings
Set a threshold for a daily mosquito count (integer > 0). For
example, if you consider up to 85 mosquitoes per day as to-
lerable for a certain location, insert “85” in the field next to
“Mosquito Catch Index Threshold” (14). The analyzer makes
use of the Mosquito Catch Index Threshold in the tables: For
example, when you analyze a time range longer than 1 day,
the table includes a column “N days above threshold”. The
threshold map in the Analyzer section shows, which traps
were above threshold.
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