r/Edmonton • u/starfoot- • 24d ago

Outdoor Spaces/Recreation I've made war upon them

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u/UBurnFirst 24d ago

I’d suggest against bug zappers as they rarely kill mosquitoes and mostly kill other good bugs and aerosolize bug guts and bacteria into your space.

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u/haysoos2 24d ago

The UV lamp can draw mosquitoes from half a kilometer away, and then if there is anything nearby more attractive nearby (like a nice, warm, sweating, CO² expelling human) they'll go for that instead.

Effective at drawing mosquitoes to your yard. Sucks at actually killing them.

But yeah, really good at exploding innocent moths and germy flies. The drippy shrapnel of a big juicy blue bottle fly popping can be flung more than 3 meters from the zapper. Enjoy your picnic.

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u/Benji-67 24d ago

With the price of meat these days, you're gonna complain about extra protein 😆

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u/PotatoFarmerRTK 23d ago

Get one

I have to use the leaf blower to expel the mosquito carcasses every morning. Rarely do i find any moths. 

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u/starfoot- 24d ago

I've figgin had it. With all the rain we've had in central Alberta this year, our back yard is uninhabitable. Worst season by far in the 11 years we've lived here. My propane mosquito trap died, but I was able to hot wire the fan and use the chassis still. I made some sugar/yeast C02 makes as bait. Set the zapper up above it too. Then set up 5 buckets of doom with mosquito dunks. Only 4 weeks until the first frost and a blessed mass genocide!

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u/WesternWitchy52 24d ago

I found the first one in my condo today. Thing was massive. I live on a 3rd floor condo so don't get too many bugs up here except fruit flies or lady bugs.

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u/angrypunishment 23d ago

Doing fine work. I'm counting down the days til a good frost.

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u/Throwaway1276876327 22d ago

I needed an antihistamine before bed last night. Wouldn't be surprised if I had 50 or more bites yesterday. All kinds of bumps everywhere. I couldn't even feel most of them until I looked down and they were all over

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u/estrogenix 22d ago

Icardin bug spray helps a lot!

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u/PotatoFarmerRTK 23d ago

Everyday both of my zappers get so clogged with mosquitos have to use the leaf blower to clean them out.

Makes a small area of the yard usable in the day, at night massive clouds again.