About electric insect killers

Today, electric insect killers continue to gain popularity and are actively used not only in the domestic environment, but also in restaurants, cafes, grocery hypermarkets, livestock farms and greenhouses. And the main reason for such popularity is the high efficiency of the devices in combination with their safety for humans and animals (for example, the poisonous insecticides that many opponents of all kinds of “chemistry” are so afraid of when using the electric tube insect killer) are not used at all.

In general, it can be noted that consumer reviews really confirm the effectiveness of devices, and this applies not only to cases of domestic use, but also in public places and industrial environments.

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"The trick of our restaurant is that it is on board the ship,moored to the pier. Visitors are simply delighted - water is splashing right near the tables, and you can feed the seagulls with bread. But in the summer there is a real problem - customers are simply nibbled by mosquitoes. The manager once bought some kind of hanging ribbons, but it was a nightmare when such snot with dead flies hang in a well-decorated room! And then we bought such electric insect killers that lure mosquitoes with the light of a lamp, and inside they burn on a special grid. It was a real salvation! These lamps look good and generally do not give the impression of mosquito repellents, but as if disinfection of indoor air and customer care. I do not remember the model, but really help. Every day we shake out a full tray of dead mosquitoes from them. ”

Evgeny A., Volgograd

Generally speaking, insect killers, depending on their design, can be focused not only on the destruction of flying insects, but also crawling. About the various types of devices and the principles of their work, let's talk more ...

 

Types of insect killers and their principles of operation

Today, electronic insect killers of several types are on sale:

1. Tube shredders (they are often meant and referred to as lamp-traps). In this group, both home appliances, small and economical, and industrial appliances are used, for example, on farms and warehouses. Such devices effectively attract and destroy insects in rooms, as well as in open spaces - verandas, restaurant terraces, and balconies.
2. Electric traps for cockroaches (and ants), inside of which is a grid of electrodes. In such a kind of houses, insects are either attracted by the smell of bait, or simply crawling in search of shelter. Touching the metal electrode and closing the circuit, the cockroach receives an electric shock, from which it immediately dies.
   
3. Fumigators, in which on a heated coil slowly evaporates a chemical substance that is toxic to insects, but relatively safe for humans. Industrial fumigators are very effective in combating crawling and flying insects in warehouses, but household appliances usually give the desired result only in the fight against moths and mosquitoes (but also not always).The disadvantage of electro-fumigators is the need to breathe in insecticide vapors all night until the appliance is plugged in.

It is important not to confuse electrical insect killers with ultrasonic repellents. The latter are more or less effective against mosquitoes, but completely useless against cockroaches, bedbugs, ants and most other insects.

And most importantly: before you buy an electric insect killer, you must take into account the characteristics of your “enemy”. For example, it is almost impossible to remove fleas and bedbugs with the above described destroyers because it is simply impossible to attract these parasites into a trap. Such devices will be effective against insects, attracted by the ultraviolet light of a lamp - in the case of a lamp-type device, or against cockroaches, ants and woodlice - in the case of buying an electric house trap.

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“At one time we very effectively destroyed domestic cockroaches with the help of electric exterminators, we bought 3 pieces at once. Inside the houses put melted candy, closed them and included in the outlet. And in a couple of days, dead insects were shaken out of the boxes.We had dark cockroaches, but we caught them all in a couple of weeks. Then, for several months, the device crews stood in protection mode and fished guests away from their neighbors. ”

Irina, Moscow

 

How effective are electric insect killers?

Tube electric shredders do allow very effectively to destroy the flying insects in the room, provided that the device is selected taking into account the area you want to protect.

With a low number of cockroaches and the constant updating of the bait, the electronic housebreaker also shows quite good results, but the tangible effect of reducing the population size may not manifest itself immediately, but only after a few days.

But against ants Such an electric trap is usually not very effective, since it destroys only working individuals, who are looking for something to profit from, while the queen in the anthill continues to actively lay all new eggs.

It should also be borne in mind that with a large number of midges, for example, on the terrace in the evening, even a powerful tube shredder can not cope,and you can still be bitten by mosquitoes - in this case it is useful to combine electric exterminators with deterring agents, for example, with mosquito coils.

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“The insect killer lamp didn't help us. I don't know, maybe we had some special conditions. They bought good Italian, hung in the bedroom, just to protect themselves from mosquitoes, their darkness in the evenings. But they gnaw at her, and in the morning they die in the exterminator. It ended up buying a branded net on the windows and forgot about the problem. ”

Anna, Kostroma

As for electric fumigators, in general, they do a good job with their task, destroying the flying insects in the room. And if you include such a fumigator in a closed cabinet, it will help to get rid not only of moth butterflies, but also of its larvae. However, fumigators in most cases have almost no effect on cockroaches, fleas, domestic ants and, even more so, on bedbugs.

 

Rules of application

The main advantage of electric insect killers (besides their high efficiency) lies in the simplicity of their use. All that is needed for the device to start exterminating insects is to plug it in and install it in an optimal place.

The choice of location depends on the type of insect to be destroyed.For example, to destroy moths, mosquitoes and flies, it is enough to hang a tube fighter in a clearly visible place where the device is visible from all points of the room (remember that the light travels straight and the insect sees it only if the device is not obstructed by interior).

Electronic exterminators of crawling insects (popularly also called electroshock cockroaches) are usually placed in the following points of the room:

• next to the stove;
• near the fridge;
• near the trash can;
• in the corners of the room;
• and at night you can leave the device directly on the kitchen table.

It is undesirable to use fumigators in the kitchen (for example, when fighting with food moths), since chemical substances evaporated by the appliance can be absorbed by food. When used in warehouses, powerful industrial fumigators are used, each of which serves a specific area and, depending on the design, is either suspended from the ceiling of the room or installed on the floor. Small household fumigators can be plugged into any conveniently located electrical outlet,since chemical evaporation will still fill the entire room (but still it is advisable to choose an outlet farther from the bed).

 

The most famous brand of insect killers

The following are the most well-known companies that produce electric insect killers with ultraviolet lamps, both for domestic use and for industrial and commercial facilities:

• Well company, in the assortment of which there are 24 industrial devices and 3 household. The company produces both traps with a grid to which electrical voltage is applied, and with a sticky grid on which insects simply stick. The latter are suitable for warehouses of dry and flammable products, where it is prohibited to use devices that are potentially capable of creating a spark.
• Mo El is a famous Italian manufacturer of home appliances. The company produces more than 35 models of ultraviolet insect killers, among which are the famous Insectivoro sucking mosquitoes and flies due to the work of an additional fan, the Frog model for installing in children's rooms, and the original MO-BUTTERFLY, which collects butterflies on the street.
• The German manufacturer Hilton, producing, perhaps, the most inexpensive exterminators - for example, the Black Monster insect lamp costs only about 400 rubles, while having a fairly high efficiency.

Manufacturers of electrical fumigators today are also quite well known and, as they say, on the hearing:

• Moskitol (Mosquitall);
• Raptor;
• Raid.

But the manufacturers of electronic traps houses are little known, and the products of Chinese companies are mainly represented on the Russian market, and this is also not very widespread. However, craftsmen fill this drawback with the fact that they collect electronic insect killers with their own hands - one can find many such schemes on the Internet.

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“We ordered two devices to the house at once. My daughter bought at some foreign auction, they are Chinese there and cost a penny. But despite the cheapness work fine. In my kitchen, every day about fifteen Prusaks are caught, in general they were completely invisible in the house. ”

Polina Grigorievna, Svatovo

If you, too, have been able to use any electric insect killer in practice, be sure to leave your review at the bottom of this page!

 

An interesting video with a vivid example of the efficiency of the electric exterminator of flying insects.

 

Comparison of electric insect killer and fumigator (frankly, quite superficial)