Bug zapper placement

[Keltara]

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Darn it. I have 5 of them running around in the yard.

You can still use it Sara. Mix .75oz to one gallon of water, put it in a spray bottle and you can spray down the interior of the coop (roof/walls) and I'm sure that will give them mosquito relief at night. Also, you can spray the birds directly if they have a mite, flea or tic problem. I have cats as well but they don't go inside the coop or lick the chickens, so they are safe.

 

[Keltara]

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Um, when we had our zapper up and running, there was a big old pile of fried mosquitos below the zapper with a moth or two thrown in so I am having a hard time buying the completely ineffective statement. Downside is they are really noisy killing the mosquitoes all night long so don't put it near a bedroom window! We unplugged ours after the barn swallows moved in.

I use the best sweat-proof permethrin available for my horse and she still has mosquitoes, stable flies and deer flies (my bane) that will torment her, just not in as high of a number. The permethrin is much more likely to kill off all the 'good guys' if used as a perimeter spray instead of just on the animal. It wouldn't be my first choice for control because it is so broad spectrum.
I do like dumping all water collecting in anything laying around they can use to breed in and I have goldfish in one horse tank and guppies in another to feast on the mosquito larvae.
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As for stable flies there are predatory wasps you can buy to release that feed on the fly larvae to keep those numbers down thus avoiding those nasty stinky jars to attract the adult flies. You sprinkle them on manure so it may not work in your case unless the farmer will let you at his manure pile. You have to repenish them every month and start early in the summer to get a head of the problem.

I stand corrected that they actually are attracted to the zappers. I cut the below information from the internet and there are many other similar findings.....

What's wrong with bug zappers?

They kill beneficial insects, attract mosquitoes but don't kill them, help mosquitoes find standing water to lay their eggs, and spray insect fragments into the air. The Ultra Violet (UV) light from zappers attracts all night-flying insects. Each night zappers kill about 3,000 beneficial insects such as moths and butterflies, which pollinate flowers, but only a handful of mosquitoes. A Notre Dame University study in South Bend Indiana showed that people with a zapper in their backyard got bit 10% more than people without one because zappers attracted mosquitoes but did not kill them. UV light also helps mosquitoes find water where they lay their eggs. When UV light is reflected off the surface of water it is polarized. Like polarized sunglasses that reduce glare and help you see objects more clearly, the mosquitoes follow the polarized light to the water to lay their eggs. Because they attract large bugs, they are purposefully designed to explode them so they don't accumulate and become a fire hazard. Exploding bug-fragments drift on the air. People and food nearby may be contaminated by insect-fragments from the zapper.

 

[cottagechick]

Here is something I saw advertised on the side of this site? Anyone use this?



St Gabriel St Gabriel FlySwatter Fly Repellent Treats 1000 Sq. Ft., 10-pound
| Kmart Item# 043V003622853000 | Model# SGL700911

$20.99

Overview
Use in barn stables and paddocks around livestock, horses and chicken coops

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[John123john]

I place my zapper in the barn. So now wait for result, Idk, maybe it useless.

 

[Lonesome Dough]

Everybody seems to have different results. Back in the late '70s I worked for a truck dealership in Gary,IN that was right next to the Calumet river and some swamp. the mosquitoes were so bad we had several giant zappers hanging from the celling inside the shop, each morning we swept up buckets of dead skeeters, so many we had to use a grain shovel for a scoop. I still use a zapper at home but hang it away from the house, it's very entertaining. Now for near the house doors use a hornet trap, filled with about a 70/30 mix of apple juice 70% and water 30% and about 2 drops of Dawn. That trap works it's way through the bug cycles, starts with flies then moths then wasps and hornets and all the while some skeeters. Wasps may do some good but when you have dozens flying around the door you have to thin them out. And yes I hunted down every nest I could find but they keep coming.

 

[chickengeorgeto]

There is a reason that these devises are called Bug Zappers and not Mosquito Zappers.
The reason is that they don't do doodley squat to rid your yard of mosquitoes. The light that is the attractant for Bug Zappers doesn't attract mosquitoes worth a darn however they do lure bushels of harmless as well as beneficial insects to a fiery death. To lure mosquitoes you need a high pressure cylinder of Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and a step down pressure regulator to dribble out small amounts of this gas so that the mosquitoes are attracted to what they think is a living breathing animal full of yummy red blood cells. Oh there are a few unlucky mosquitoes who stumble into the Zappers but it is a minute percentage of the overall kill or about .25 of one percent or about 2 bugs in every 1,000 zapped are either a biting gnat or a blood sucking mosquito.

There are other Electronic Insect Control Devices that do kill mosquitoes using a combination of Pheromones and good old CO2
https://home.howstuffworks.com/do-bug-zappers-fight-mosquitoes.htm