No, not the smart home management variety that are always listening (looking at you, Siri, Alexa, and Google Home), or the kind that spies of yore used (or maybe still use?) to listen in on your dinner plans or football watching habits.
No, I am referring to actual bugs. Insects. Things that are highly annoying when they get into your home. We get these often in our house, as doors tend to get left open due to our indoor/outdoor lifestyle in the warmer months.
From mosquitos to house flies to various types of gnats and stinging things, we tend to get them all.
Aspectek Bug Zapper To The Rescue
On a whim, I bought one of these Aspektec bug zappers off Amazon, and it has been the best $40 I ever spent. In fact, I ended up buying a second one to keep in the basement since the one on the main floor worked so well. It attracts ’em, it zaps ’em, it splats ’em.
There are few downsides, however. First is that the zapping noise is rather loud, but that is also satisfying in a demented way.
Second is that the bugs don’t always fall into the removable tray at the bottom, so expect to wipe or vacuum some of them up.
Lastly, some of the bigger bugs this thing has zapped, including large flies and hornets, tend to linger a bit and get zapped repeatedly. In fact, they start smoldering on occasion, which isn’t the most pleasant thing when it comes to household smells. But I tend not to be bothered by that sort of thing.
The good news is my cats leave it alone and are not interested in it, and we don’t get eaten by mosquitos at night in our own house!
