Electric Bug Zappers

[B47]

Originally Posted by herk7769

Well, having learned from experience (all bad) and reading the manual (finally), I discovered that those "bug getters" need to be placed as far away from where you are as possible.

It is like putting up a huge sign to the bugs "Sex party and all you can eat at Herk's campsite"

This does not make for a comfortable evening (even though I used to get great satisfaction hearing the little devils fry...)

You are very welcome to set as many up as you want at YOUR campsite as mine will then be "bug free."

Darn Lou, but I'm starting to see somewhat of a sadist side of you here.

[ependydad]

Curiosity got me:

Camping Rules and Regulations | Missouri State Parks has "The use of electrical insect-killing devices is prohibited."

Wow. I wouldn't have guessed.

[OldCoot]

Originally Posted by ependydad

Curiosity got me:

Camping Rules and Regulations | Missouri State Parks has "The use of electrical insect-killing devices is prohibited."

Wow. I wouldn't have guessed.

Thanks, I sure missed that.

[TURBS]

Wasn't anything in there about bugasalt rifles is there?

[Oakman]

Originally Posted by f1100turbo

Wasn't anything in there about bugasalt rifles is there?

I don't know Turbo, does it fall under this regulation?

The discharging of firearms, BB guns, paintball guns, bow and arrows, sling shots or any devices that use burning powder, explosives, compressed gases, etc. is prohibited.

Would air be considered a compressed gas?

[TURBS]

Hhhhmmmmm

Technically yes....
Is salt an explosive?

[B47]

Originally Posted by Oakman

I don't know Turbo, does it fall under this regulation?

The discharging of firearms, BB guns, paintball guns, bow and arrows, sling shots or any devices that use burning powder, explosives, compressed gases, etc. is prohibited.

Would air be considered a compressed gas?

Air is a gas and it can be compressed.

[Herk7769]

Originally Posted by B47

Darn Lou, but I'm starting to see somewhat of a sadist side of you here.

You have no idea...

[Maladjusted]

My wife has this tennis racket looking thing that zaps the bugs... I think she got it a the Dollar Store.

She likes it!

[indybp57]

Originally Posted by herk7769

Well, having learned from experience (all bad) and reading the manual (finally), I discovered that those "bug getters" need to be placed as far away from where you are as possible.

It is like putting up a huge sign to the bugs "Sex party and all you can eat at Herk's campsite"

This does not make for a comfortable evening (even though I used to get great satisfaction hearing the little devils fry...)

You are very welcome to set as many up as you want at YOUR campsite as mine will then be "bug free."

Back in the day when bug zappers were a fairly new gadget, my farmer uncle decided to put one up on a light pole outside his house. Unfortunately, being out in the country, and surrounded by flat fields, every bug within a one mile radius could see it. The first night it got clogged up so bad he had to go out and clean it up to keep it from self destructing. The next morning there was a pile of ashes under it about the diameter of a dinner plate and a foot deep. The moral of the story is: It has to attract 'em before it can zap 'em.

[Cowracer]

Originally Posted by OldCoot

I've looked at the Missouri state park regulations and can't find any reference to them. Was wanting to know as we are planning on going to Crowder State Park by Trenton, MO the last of Aug for 10 days. Class reunion & visiting friends.

Originally Posted by OldCoot

Can you post the website for this? Thanks.

Camping Rules and Regulations | Missouri State Parks

12th bullet point down

Tim

[BigTJohn]

Besides, if Turbs and Lou are the with loaded BugaSalts, no one should have any problems.
The electric bug zappers w/attractant light will get mostly good bugs (really, are there any good bugs?) but the biting ones really like the CO2 and IR people put out. Lots of hot, exhaling bodies around a fire should be very appealing to most mosquitoes. So bottom line, get two or three people away from the most talkative, least hydrated person and you should be ok.

[TURBS]

Originally Posted by BigTJohn

Besides, if Turbs and Lou are the with loaded BugaSalts, no one should have any problems.
The electric bug zappers w/attractant light will get mostly good bugs (really, are there any good bugs?) but the biting ones really like the CO2 and IR people put out. Lots of hot, exhaling bodies around a fire should be very appealing to most mosquitoes. So bottom line, get two or three people away from the most talkative, least hydrated person and you should be ok.

Gues I know who to stay away from then..

[F and E Damp]

Our neighbors at our last S&B had one. On balance, I believe it attracted at least twice as many as it killed and those left alive plagued the hell out of all the other neighbors in the street. I guess we got about 3 times the skeeters we'd have had to deal with if the neighbors hadn't had the zapper.

[Timtation]

Originally Posted by Cowracer

Camping Rules and Regulations | Missouri State Parks

12th bullet point down

Tim

Missouri has modified its signage. Now it is a little more difficult to tell you are in a State Park. Used to be the identifier was two or more sentences starting with Do Not or NO ___ Allowed.

[Cowracer]

Originally Posted by Timtatioin

Missouri has modified its signage. Now it is a little more difficult to tell you are in a State Park. Used to be the identifier was two or more sentences starting with Do Not or NO ___ Allowed.

Surely you jest. The big honking brown sign at the entrance is usually a dead give away, as is the Missouri DNR badge/patch on the rangers, and the words MISSOURI STATE PARKS numerous times in the wad of literature they give you upon check in..

Tim

[Weezer]

Originally Posted by BarryD0706

These zappers get more than mosquitos (like fire-flys?).

The evidence would seem to indicate that we have a pretty poor history of predicting our effects on the environment (although some of that is corporate greed overriding good science).

But ok, I'll play. Perhaps the birds don't like the taste of zapped mosquitos so you're taking away their food supply. Or with all those zapped mosquitos, they just sit around on the couch, get fat and lazy and can no longer protect themselves from predators so they die off. I think that would be sad, but I imagine we'll see a new thread soon with the topic "Do You Shoot Those Noisy Birds (that interfere with me listening to my Boom-Box)?"

I can't speak for birds, but I can gar own tee ya FROGS love fried bugs. Kids used to get a kick outta sittin in the back yard near the zapper and watch the frogs gather under it. They'd get so full they could hardly hop.

If Louisiana is representative of the entire skeeter population in the US, there aren't enough campers with zappers in the lower 48 to risk skeeter extinction.

[Weezer]

Originally Posted by clancythecamper

I had considered getting one. I'm also thinking about the C02 repellers and the homemade traps. I currently have the natural spray, the DEET spray, and the torches with the no bug fuel. I guess I'll see what works and get progressively expensive til I figure it out.

This may just be something known in the South, but here we swear by Avon Skin So Soft.

It works GREAT and smells good too!

[WEMig]

Originally Posted by HERmit

This may just be something known in the South, but here we swear by Avon Skin So Soft.

It works GREAT and smells good too!

X2, I use that stuff any day before mosquito repellant

[Weezer]

Originally Posted by WEMigt, 85344

X2, I use that stuff any day before mosquito repellant

I think Avon makes more off that product as a bug repellant than any other product they make.