Do Bug Zappers Work? Q. I assumed I learn someplace that bug zappers don’t really work. My neighbor’s zapper is driving me loopy with that ZZZZT noise all evening. I’d like to point out him proof that all he’s doing is annoying his neighbor. A. Yes, there is a few scientific information on the usefulness of bug zappers, however first we'd like to tell apart between the bug zapper light zappers that homeowners use in their yards to (hopefully) kill mosquitoes, and flying insect killer the commercial insect light traps that pest control professionals use principally in eating places, food plants, and warehouses. These expensive industrial traps are used mainly to kill home flies they usually do work. The relatively cheap yard bug zappers kill loads of flying insect killer insects, just not mosquitoes. bug zapper zappers use ultraviolet mild to draw mosquitoes to a metal grid where they are electrocuted or "zapped." People that own these traps swear by them. They level to the piles of useless insects that they empty out of the entice every morning. And those insects do look like mosquitoes. But mostly they're midges, harmless fliers that don't chunk and are considered helpful. Bug zappers actually attract and kill very few mosquitoes. Instead, the ultraviolet gentle draws hordes of insects into the yard that wouldn’t have been there in any other case. Yard zappers have never fared very nicely in analysis tests. One examine found that 89% of the zapped insects were midges

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Pub: 15 Aug 2025 23:57 UTC

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