Advertising and selling that plant before its effectiveness is documented takes advantage of American consumer. Back to top Regular electric bug zappers Electrocuting devices, popularly known as the Bug Zappers, are the most popular device on the market for reducing mosquitoes around the home. Most rely on the ultraviolet light to draw insects through an electrified wire grid. A resounding pop followed by a series of sizzling sounds signals the homeowner that an insect has passed through the electrocuting device. Most homeowners keep the machine on a timer that turns the units off during daylight hours, but some run the traps day and night during summer season.
Bug zappers kill a lot of insects.
Back to top Insectivorous Bats Every so often, a well-meaning conservation group promotes bats to eliminate mosquitoes from areas where nuisance has become intolerable. This undoubtedly leads to rediscovery of research conducted in the 1950s indicating that bats released in a room filled with mosquitoes could catch up to 10 mosquitoes per minute. The research was conducted to measure the effectiveness of echolocation in insectivorous bat species. The results have been extrapolated to suggest that wild bats can consume 600 mosquitoes per hour. Using that figure, a colony of 500 bats will remove 250,000 mosquitoes each hour and theoretically afford mosquito control for an entire neighborhood.