traps
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Faraji, its director, told me that besides the program’s bicycle brigade and backyard fish program, which help keep mosquito populations down, his team also sets hundreds of mosquito traps across the city.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
“We haven’t been able to get it out. We can’t put poison out because we have a little dog. So we have put some glue traps or something.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2026
On the small vessel’s deck, a pair of traps containing skittering crustaceans had just been heaved aboard from 25 feet below the water.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Researchers from the University of Cambridge's Department of Zoology collected pollen using pollen traps and measured levels of arsenic, cadmium, chromium, cobalt, lead, and tin in both pollen and adult bees.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 7, 2026
She, Klenam, would stay, and after school I could go and bring foodstuffs from the farm and check my fish traps.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
