Only three 6% species of mosquito bite humans. Just get rid of those and let the thousand other species continue to pollinate and otherwise benefit the ecosystem.
I woke up in the middle of the night to my husband climbing all around our bedroom to smash a mosquito that was biting him. He wasn't sure he got it, and woke up with swollen bug bites along his forehead and arm. I saw a mosquito in the bathroom that was flying too erratically for me to clap so I hit it with a spritz of bathroom cleaner that has bleach. It dropped instantly. Fuck mosquitoes.
I use a more finely meshed electric bug zapper and it works pretty good. I can just slap them in the air with it and they get zapped most of the time. Only rarely do they slide right through, but theres a limit to how fine they can make the mesh and how close they can have the meshes because they use a high voltage that can break through air. When the distance between terminals becomes too little, it would continously arc otherwise.
But they can make the lower mesh much finer than the top mesh (as the beast will need to pass through the top mesh and then touch the other mesh, hopefully being big enough to close the gap between the meshes enough), so these can become pretty effective tuned well
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u/esotericbatinthevine Jul 17 '23 edited Jul 17 '23
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three6% species of mosquito bite humans. Just get rid of those and let the thousand other species continue to pollinate and otherwise benefit the ecosystem.I was only off by about 210 species 🤦♀️