Patent ID: 8109035

Claim:
A device for controlling mosquitoes, the device comprising: a stagnant water container configured to contain stagnant water; a weeping platform configured to float on the stagnant water in the container, the platform including: a series of holes forming brooding cups in which the stagnant water is exposed so that a female mosquito can lay eggs in the brooding cups, wherein the brooding cups are sized and configured to provide access from the brooding cups to the stagnant water and to reduce or prevent escape of adult mosquitoes from the water, and a flexible barrier member attached to the platform and configured to extend between the platform and the container and having a material flexibility that flexibly engages an interior surface of the container by slidably abutting the interior surface of the container as the flexible barrier member floats and moves with the platform when the platform is positioned on top of the water in the container so that the flexible barrier member reduces or prevents escape of the adult mosquitoes from the water; wherein the material flexibility of the flexible barrier member is more flexible than a material flexibility of the platform or the flexible barrier member is formed of a material that is different than a material that forms the platform.