Do Bug Zappers Work? Q. I assumed I learn somewhere that bug zappers don’t actually work. My neighbor’s fly zapper is driving me loopy with that ZZZZT noise all evening. I’d like to point out him proof that each one he’s doing is annoying his neighbor. A. Yes, there is a few scientific data on the usefulness of bug zappers, however first we'd like to differentiate between the rechargeable bug zapper zappers that homeowners use in their yards to (hopefully) kill mosquitoes, and the business insect gentle traps that pest management professionals use mostly in restaurants, meals plants, and warehouses. These costly commercial traps are used mainly to kill house flies they usually do work. The relatively cheap backyard buy bug zapper zappers kill loads of flying insect killer insects, just not mosquitoes. Bug zappers use ultraviolet mild to draw mosquitoes to a steel grid where they are electrocuted or "zapped." People who own these traps swear by them. They point to the piles of dead insects that they empty out of the trap each morning. And people insects do appear like mosquitoes. But principally they're midges, harmless fliers that don't chew and are considered beneficial. Bug zappers truly appeal to and kill only a few mosquitoes. Instead, the ultraviolet mild attracts hordes of insects into the yard that wouldn’t have been there in any other case. Yard zappers have by no means fared very nicely in analysis exams. One examine found that 89% of the zapped insects had been midges
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Do Bug Zappers Work?
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