Re: Those plug-in bug repellers - anyone tried them?

That's sad! Thanks for the reply, anyway..

Jake

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Oh, I dunno - when I had one running in the shop I had in the corner of my brother-in-law's building, it kept him out most of the time. That sufficed for pest control ... {grins}

RwP

Thanks for the input. Yes, that's the one I've seen advertised on cable TV. It's quite expensive.

I've got one - but he seems totally blind to bugs...

So far, I've fount the best line of defense is mosquito netting over the windows.

Jake

I think there are basically two types - one with the heater, slowly dispensing some chemicals into the air, and the other type generating ultrasound waves that are supposed to fight mosquito's.

Let the force be with you!

Gotta be possible to train them.

Catch a few hundred bugs, paint with tuna?

Nonsense. Bugs don't have ears. If you have bug problems, like I had one summer, I recommend grabbing the vacuum cleaner and sucking them up. As I said, they don't have ears, and you can even suck up those damned fruit flies that hover over your bananas in summer. Those fruit flies have good eyes and are hard to squish, but a vacuum cleaner? No problem.

Well, at least that's more fair than if it was the other way round! ;-) It's a shame to hear those ghizmos don't work; I was thinking perhaps I could get a giant one and get rid of my noisy neighbours with it...

Frank

summer,

I agree that you can't beat a vacuum cleaner - but I've found that the vacuum cleaner is always at the other end of the house when you need it.. By the time you've fetched it, plugged it in, and got it running, the creepy culprit has generally skuttled off, where it will wait patiently until you are asleep, so it can come and do the boogaloo on your face...

Frank

just on that heating element note:

Here in brisbane australia we get ceilings full of mossies (mosquitoes) in summer.

both raid and mortein make plug in heating elements onto which you put a poison pad

some work for 8 hours, some for 3 months @ 8hrs a night. a simple timer switch to turn on for 8hrs per night is perfect.

they clear the cieling of mossies in 10-30 mins and keep you mossie free for all the time they are on.

they are supposed to work for flies too, but I have never noticed a reduction in flies due to these strips.

loqk

Would you really want to LIVE in a house that was filled with a mysterious electromagnetic field that drives an insect's nervous system wild? I'd be real cautious of using such a product if it really DID work! I also don't like ultrasonic alarm systems. Some of the ones in stores emit enough energy that I can sense them, in some way. I'd sure hate to be exposed to that for hours on end. So, I'd at least want to try out any ultrasonic system before I paid for it.

Jon

They don't other than keeping them out of wall outlets thy are plugged into.

Hey, News2020 has been doing it for years, to hear it told.

Cheers!

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