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When chosing your next bug zapper.
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So.... fit loads of LED lights and the mossies will not go there and get burnt... Instead they will go and feast on some human flesh. Did they think this through ?
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Well I took it as an endorsement to use tungsten etc. filament lamps in the zapper for best results.
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IIRC bug zappers mostly kill harmless or beneficial insects anyway.
Just put on some bug spray, it's the smell of summer!
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Looks like you've pretty much missed the point.
If you see any LED bug zappers offered for sale - they're ornamental value only.
The usual fluorescent ones aren't all that much better.
If you see one with a filament bulb - buy it.
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Why? Bug zappers mostly kill useful bugs and the ones you most hate aren't attracted at all, like mosquitoes.
The only bug zapper I use is the one that makes a web near my porch floodlight. I think that one has the same deficiency of not helping with mosquitoes much, but at least the light helps him get fat and happy. I'd bet he kills as many bugs a night as the zapper. I know it's too many for him to eat.
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The real deal in insect killers are the ones that generate CO2 to attract the insects then zap them. ...Jim Thompson
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Or perhaps an endrorsement for LED patio lighting.
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The newer ones use warm CO2 and male smelling juice to attract mosquitos. If you look in the collection bucket of a propane killer, you see almost all mosquiotes and nothing else. Without the male juice, they really don't work good.
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The last para clearly shows that to be the case: "The UK company?s Marketing Director Sanjiv Kotecha said: ?As lighting manufacturers, we welcome that a link between LED lights and low attraction to insects has been proven. The energy saving advantages of solid-state lighting are well known, yet the benefits to well-being are only beginning to be revealed.?"
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I also encourage spiders and make a deliberate effort not to disturb their webs.
Insect screens on the windows keep most pests out, but I have a problem with the tiny wafty flies that arrive with fresh fruit. The fly papers fill up in seemingly no time.
In the Autumn; a wasp or three will somehow find its/their way in - they find their way to the LED replacement bulbs, but where else would they go!
There's a spider in the bog that somehow hangs on without doing much trade - I don't usually leave the light on in there, I'm tempted to rig up a low power light to lead any flies toward the web.
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Most people don't want to keep shelling out for consumables.
The high pitched mossie repellers apparently only work on the females, so I'm told - they're the ones that bite. The male makes the high pitched sound and the females avoid the males at feeding time.