Flowtron Bug Zapper, 1 Acre of Outdoor Coverage with Powerful 40W Bulb & 5600V Instant Killing Grid, Electric Insect, Fly & Mosquito Zapper, Made in The USA

After soaking the yard in a thousand different pesticides (and probably killing more fish and honeybees than Mosquitoes, I finally opted to go old school. Bought this for $40 and put it in the garden, about 100 feet from the pool/patio via a long extension cord with a dusk/dawn external timer. Set it up at about 4pm and walked away. All of the sudden I hear a zap at around 6pm, look out and and see the light is on. And then it got darker… much darker… By 7pm it was nearly a continuous buzz with tiny pillars of smoke rising up through the air. We’re talking 4-5 mosquitoes per second. We couldn’t get within 20 feet without being swarmed. But it was zapping away and killing bugs at a genocidal pace. I went out at 10 pm. And it was completely clogged. When I say clogged, i mean there were at least 10,000 mosquitoes on it. (No, I’m not exaggerating, they were a half inch thick.) And there was a pile of dead bugs on the ground so it’s not like they all stuck. At 4 bugs per second, we may have killed 57,600 bugs in just 4 hours. Fortunately I’m a computer tech so I carry around a 20cf bottle of compressed nitrogen for cleaning out computers. I just hit it with a few blasts, the grates were clean and it went back to work sentencing every blood sucker in a 1000 foot radius to certain death. They could certainly improve this with a built in photosensor as other companies have done, and an easier way to clean it. Buy yourself a can of compressed air and just blast it every once in a while. It’s been about 2 weeks and some days are worse than others, but it does seem to need cleaning just about every day. I know it says it has an anti-clogging grid, but I think that everything has it’s limits. The good news is that my garden has tons of fertilizer and we haven’t been bitten once since installing this. There are hardly any bugs circling my floodlight and we have our yard back! Be aware that the garden is probably not the best place for this, I’ll be moving it shortly as the area is now covered in spider webs. What isn’t caught by the zapper is captured by them, so I can’t really complain, but not what you want for your garden. This costs pennies to run plus a few bucks a month for a new attractant. If it was easier to clean and had a dusk to dawn sensor it would be perfect. But when you consider that it completely kills millions of mosquitoes, I think those are easy things to overlook. Probably any bug zapper would work about as well as long as you use the Octonol.