Lights, lights, bug lights

Still thinking about mosquito traps, could buy some outdoor traps any day now.  One issue is that all the units I am interested in require A/C power.  I have only one fully suitable AC power outlet on the side of Lyndhurst.  I could power one trap in that vicinity easily, but not other traps elsewhere, without adding additional outlets, an additional expense.  Although, right now I keep Lyndhurst doors open for outgassing, I can just run wire out, until I close doors sometime in October, then worry about additional outlet wiring next year.

But in a way the more bewildering decision is how to re-do the security lights, now that it has become clear the old security lights were a big part of the mosquito equation because they attract tons of bugs, including mosquitos.

I've already planned and purchased 12 small solar lights for lighting trees and such around the perimeter of yard.  Current backyard security light didn't even do that very well, but did do a good job of lighting out to 25 feet from house.

The front and back door lights need not even be security lights anymore.  I could have pole light somewhere in yards for that purpose, keep from attracting bugs near door.  But that involves a lot of planning, work, and expense.  I could easily imagine spending $2000 on front and back pole lights, including new electrical installation.

So in the short term, it makes sense to continue using front and back door lights with a continued security function, if not identical performance with existing lights, but using less bug attracting lights.

So soft back lit sconces are probably out.  But a open light taking standard screw in bulbs (which seems to be A21) either as a panoramic light-in-a-box or as quasi-spots would work using bulb bolbs, which are commonly available in A21 incandescent, CFL, and LED.  I had been thinking also of real spot-light type LED bulbs, but I'm having a hard time finding suitable outdoor "wet" lamps to hold them.

Here is a two A21 bulb quasi-spot bulb, very traditional, and traditionally inefficient with incandescent bulb.  Light is only emitted out of the type of the bulb cover, and A21 bulbs emit light all around, so much light energy is wasted.  Still, it could do the job with two bug lights of some kind.  With suitable LED bulbs, it would be quite efficient.

A friend liked my idea of modifying the existing panoramic lights with transparent yellow filters.

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Took a look at Lowe's today and they have standard outside dual floodlights in white or black.  Also available in both colors with dusk-to-dawn photosensor intended to work with halogen bulbs.  The non-photosensor variety is also available with short bulb covers or the full sized bulb covers.  The photosensor variety had full sized bulb covers, which I suspect are compatible with PAR38 lights.

I'm thinking the photosensor ought to work with dimmable LED floods.  They had some nice looking 15W floods by Sylvania in 2700K.  They also had GE's and a few others.  It didn't seem hard to find 2700K lights, though typically integrated CFL/sensor lights use 5000K and up fluorescents which I now know are bug magnets.