Do those UV LED fly killers work?

Flea/tree hugger or not (Just you wait Boaz :) ), there are really better ways to control this nonsense. By eliminating buzzing pests around our habitat were doing an ecosystem disaster without even knowing most of the time.

We had a severe mosquito legion on rampage in the past years. The solution was rather simple and very effective. Instead of poisoning the air with instant buzzing buggers killers we made a new home for a 12 member bat family.

Many were against at first but later on found no real issue with them. May not be pretty but they arent ugly at all once you see them up close a few times. Well the rubber lookalike wings are not to everyone taste but it's a almost cute mouse anyway (untill you see it open its mouth and squeeek)

Anyway, that worked surprisingly well in flying buggers conrtol in a totally natural way. Yo ustill get bitten now and than but it was 10000x better.

EcologicalFoy :P

I think you have a fair point Budgeteer (bug hugger was meant purely in jest) and I am all for a couple more bats around the area, the thing is once just one of the little buggers is in my house I want it dead, squatting can be pretty hard if you can even locate them, fly spray I'd rather avoid if possible but is presently my most effective tool, so the UV electrocution lamp would be perfect. I just want to kill the handful that enter my house.

Anyway back to topic, tubes are better and neither really get the female mossy anyway?

For home this works nicely unless you really need something that is powered and emits some light.

Yay! lets make BZF! (bug zapping forum)

I had a domestic version of the tube type, bought from Ikea, and it was indeed useless. The only time that flying bugs really, er, bug me (sorry) is in bed at night, and even then, it's only the mozzies I really have a problem with. Just dropping off to Z land and you hear that faint, faraway telltale drone ..

Mosquitos have a strange MO. They're attracted by light, although it seems that only in the dark do they become active and start buzzing around. After years of suffering and experementing, what I've found pretty much foolproof is to make sure, as far as possible, that all lights anywhere near the bedroom are off, and that a low ish light somewhere else, (spare room, say, or kitchen) is on for at least an hour before bedtime. Then I close the entrapment room door and go to bed. This method has been so effective that I don't usually need to close the bedroom door behind me. Also, I haven't needed to buy the screen doors that I thought I'd need. Wish I'd discovered this method years ago..

Although, just a thought. I live in the UK, and our pest level is way lower than for many of you. Not sure how effective this would be against hundreds of the little @#%$**ers.

I wonder if they make “UV” COBs… lol

I think you are wright.Mosquitoes,not often,other insects,many.

This is a necro thread. But, for people who want to kill mosquitoes, you want a CO2-emitting trap. Light-based traps kill pretty much everything EXCEPT mosquitos and like someone said, they are a waste to use outdoors. When used outdoors, the light-based traps actually kill the bugs that eat mosquitoes.

The light-based traps work fine indoors, particularly on flies, though.

Yes, necro’d by an enterprising spammer who goes by “andrew379”.

Marked. :+1:

The old blacklight powered bug zappers work just fine. No idea about these new LED ones.

A long time ago, one time we had 100+ mosquitoes all flying around the light just outside the entryway of the house. It was pretty disturbing to have to walk under them to get inside.

We got a bug zapper and within a day or two it had killed every mosquito. The light just attracted the mosquitoes. The electrically charged grill over the light is what killed them.

Incidentally, bug zappers are a sanitation hazard. Apparently each time a mosquito gets zapped it sprays potentially hazardous bug juice over a wide area.

Any reference/link about that?
I always have an electric racket handy, which is a big help in getting read of mosquitoes in a room…

They might work for flies, they certainly don’t for mosquitos. They fly in on your CO2 breath and use IR from your body warmth for final approach. They’re not bothered with or by UV :smiley:

Mosquitoes are not attracted to traditional bug zappers and light, only CO2. However, UV light does attract those bugs that look like mosquitoes - midges as well as many other bugs. So, if you put up a bug zapper, all those insects you see swarming it are not mosquitoes unless you have a CO2 emitting trap.

The below link references 4 different studies which showed that these lights are really ineffective at killing female mosquitoes.

What I said
Thank you for providing sources. I find that a good ceiling vent, silently turning but displacing a lot of air is highly effective in both keeping one cool and disrupting their navigation and flight.

Yeah we’ve noticed that airflow confuses both flies and mosquitoes. Both appear to hunt using their sense of smell so running a fan throws them off. At our last kid’s birthday party, we ran a fan in the room with all the food with the fan pointing out to another room. We found that almost all of the flies flew to the other room (the direction the fan was pointed). Also works great in bedrooms at night if there are mosquitoes.

Bug zapper combine with CO2 works for this guy

I’ve never heard of a simple way to get read of mosquitoes. Other bugs traps and ultra sounds don’t work, plants and chemicals have a very limited range and efficiency outside… Although a couple big fans can help a lot, the only efficient devices i’ve heard of are CO2/pheromone/IR traps which are somewhat complex, often cost above $1k and need servicing - and i’d like to see how good they are in the open.

I wouldn’t be surprised budget DIY similar CO2 traps would come up on YT or else… and then chinese copies on BG, GB and others. Some may well work? We’ll see.

PS: RobertB post beat mine on the DIY part! :beer:

These Mosquito Magnets work incredibly well. My Brother had one. But you’re right, they are expensive. Not the kind of thing you want to leave running 24/7 either. More for if you entertain at your house, fire it up a day or two before the party and the mosquitos are gone.

Yes they are work. I use Electronic Indoor Insect Killer Zapper 20W and it’s work very well. So i use it on the my backyard.

I bought one of these for the front porc. It can get pretty humid at times in the summer where I live, so I needed something. You never actually hear a “zap” like old school bug zappers. The front porch went out recently so I pulled out the spare to replace it with and the old bulb was COVERED in various deceased insect bodies.

By the way! I found one more. It is a Pest Venator bug zapper bulb. Foud them on the amazon and on the site with reviews. So anyone try it?