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Stopping Common Indoor Bugs
The common indoor bugs we see all over the world are flies, spiders, fleas and beetles. No-one likes to see a bug indoors, so most people go to just about any extremes to eradicate these common indoor bugs. Less common indoor bugs may be woodlice, earwigs, scorpions and millipedes or centipedes, although they are no less unwelcome.
No matter where you are in the world, it is very difficult to keep these common indoor bugs outside, unless you go to the extremes of keeping all your windows and doors shut at all times, which is obviously impossible. I now stay in Thailand and I know for sure that this is not an option.
So, just what can you do about it? Well, let’s deal with all the flying bugs first, as of all the common indoor bugs, I find them the most obnoxious indoor bug. They are very irritating, buzzing around your head and mosquitoes and other flies can create irritating sores and besides that, all flies spread disease. I hate to see them strutting about on food, knowing that they have more than likely just come off some dog’s muck somewhere and now they are spitting on my food to taste it with their stinking feet!
Electric Bug Killer
The indoor bug zapper is the best way of clearing your immediate vicinity of insects, especially the flying ones such as mosquitoes. The hand held bug killer vaporizes any insect from a mosquito to a gnat instantly on contact with a nice, loud, electrical ‘zap’!
However, this is not to say that the indoor bug killer cannot be used outdoors, as long as it is not raining. It should be treated like any other high voltage electrical equipment. Keep the indoor bug killer dry and definitely do not use it while you are standing in the pool!
Models vary greatly, but there are basically only two types of hand held insect zapper: the battery operated bug zapper and the rechargeable electric bug zapper. Both are equally effective at killing bugs and work on the same principle.
The hand held bug zapper looks like a ‘junior’ tennis racquet, but with three layers of ’strings’, which are in fact wires. The central network of wires becomes electrified at the push of a button, while the other two grids, one on either side, are only earths.