Do You Like Your Bug Zappers?

[maplesky7]

wow... cool website you have there.

The cow mowing cartoon is funny...throwing the glass clippings in his own mouth.

...and the breeds of animals you picked out are awesome to learn about... hard to believe there are farm animals are the critical list.

 

[Preservation Acres]

Thanks! We just wanted a hobby farm, and after I started researching, I just went from there. We're going to start small, probably with the buckeyes and a few goats. We'll gradually grow from there.

 

[The Chicken Lady]

You just need more...guinea fowl.

 

[stethomps]

We have had so much rain, and such a mild summer were I am at; the bugs have been of plague porpotions. I said they drew first blood and I was going to go Rambo on them. I purchased 2 bug zappers at Rural King. 1 that covers an acre (placed about 50') from the house, and one that covers an 1/2 acre on the back deck. For the first few weeks, I had to blow out the zapped bugs out of the mesh. I also bought 5 or 6 fly traps, and have them out all over. Phew Wee, the smell bad, but they all are completely full of nasty biteing flies. Time to re-bait. As well as wasp and beatle traps. The wasp traps didnt work so well??? My friends told me that all my steps would just attract the bugs (dah...they were allready here), but all I know is I can mow my yard without getting attacked by flies, and I can step outside my door now at dark with out getting a pint of blood sucked out of me.

Oh yeah...mine go zpppptttt, zppppptttt and some time I get aliitle poof of flame and smoke with it.

What I really would like to do is figure out some type of natural help for the plague. Maybe figure out a way to attract bats. I have seen plans for bat houses online, but I am skeptical if they would work. I have also been told to put up marlin houses. Not really sure, has anyone had luck with either of these?

 

[shelleyd2008]

Bats are bug eaters, if your bat houses would attract bats, then they would surely work. We have bats around here somewhere, we watch them all night swooping around the security light...That's our bug zapper

I would think the marlin houses would work too. Anything that attracts things that eat bugs is a good thing!

 

[Stumpy]

We live deep in the woods and have multiple hatchings of some sort of bug -- similar to a mosquito, but whiter and doesn't bite. They are so numerous, literally in the millions, that we run the bug lite on the deck because you can hardly open the door without many of them getting inside. DH goes out in the morning and uses the leaf blower to unclog it. When there has been a recent hatching, we can't even go onto the deck. You can hear an eerie high-pitch sound of the swarms of them throughout the forest at night.

It's a bit like emptying the ocean with a thimble and the bats still have plenty to eat.

 

[buck-wild-chick]

 

[rufus]

I bought one at Lowes. I think it is a Quaker; it hasn't killed anything yet. The light draws them in, but it doesn't kill them. Must be defective. Anyway, big old toads love the light; it brings them dinner.

Rufus