I LOVE my fly zapper!!!

[kenny]

Bump2.

 

[Autumnovember]

Cool, there is one. Seems like it's always 2.99? It's been on "sale" for awhile. I'll go pick one up. I hate how much crap we have flying around in our house!

Come back and tell us what it felt like when you heard that first loud SNAP!.

You're making me very excited to get one, seriously.

Do you have dogs?
If so (and you buy an electronic fly zapper) you may have a source of unlimited spare time entertainment.
You may possibly even reach Nirvana.

I do have a dog! Please elaborate

Load batteries into fly zapper.
Unload dog digestive system.
Zap away.

Kenny, she is easily frightened....

 

[tyty333]

$2.99 sounds like cheap entertainmant! How will it feel on my kids backsides? Well, they can be annoying at times like
that fly that you keep swatting at that just wont go away....kidding, kidding

Kenny...what is that in your avatar? Did you buy that? I'm getting worried about you.

 

[Berryluv]

I just saw some have larger batteries than others.

Mine uses two D size.
I surfed around and saw one that uses two AA size.

I may be wrong but I'd guess the smaller batteries cannot provide the current that the larger ones can provide.

What size batteries does yours use?

I just checked and mine uses the AA's. I'll have to get a higher voltage one for sure! We've also got tons of those sprickets breaking in since falls here. Those things give me the heebie-jeebies.

 

[jaysonsmom]

I just saw some have larger batteries than others.

Mine uses two D size.
I surfed around and saw one that uses two AA size.

I may be wrong but I'd guess the smaller batteries cannot provide the current that the larger ones can provide.

What size batteries does yours use?

I got a cheapy one that uses two AA batteries, and you're right, they are not as strong. You have to zap them a couple times 'til they are woozy and knocked senseless, then hold the zapper on them until you smell the burnt fly carcass.

If you only zap it once, and it falls, it usually "comes alive' again by the time you get a tissue to clean it up.

 

[kenny]

$2.99 sounds like cheap entertainmant! How will it feel on my kids backsides? Well, they can be annoying at times like
that fly that you keep swatting at that just wont go away....kidding, kidding

Kenny...what is that in your avatar? Did you buy that? I'm getting worried about you.

I have not touched it, but hear it is VERY powerful shock.
Let me know know how it feels.


My avatar is the beloved, Lopsie Fugs.
Here on PS legend has it that Lopsie Fugs is the icon of diamond beauty. (NOT!)
There's a thread about it somewhere.

Feast your eyes.

 

[kenny]

FWIW, I know a bit about electronics.

I'm not sure larger batteries necessarily translates into a more powerful zap.
It is possible they have the same zap (which is probably the result of a charged capacitor discharging through the fly when it closes the path for current).
Perhaps the smaller batteries just take longer to recharge the same capacitor to the same level, or perhaps the smaller batteries just don't last as long.

. . . but heck, at $2.99 you won't risk much.

So don't come sue me if you buy the larger-battery model and go swatting at a swarm of Africanized honey bees and get your butt stung.

 

[CdnBlingGal]

I LOVEEEE mine!! I bought mine at a supermarket for $1.99 when they first came out. It's not as high techie as yours, Kenny but it sure does the job! I had 5 flies circling in my livingroom, next thing I had 5 soldiers shocked to death on the floor.Then went swimming in a swirly pool.

Stupid dh of mine didn't think a $1.99 can produce high voltage zap, so he zaps himself and boy, did he get a stinger. Didn't do that again.

 

[Gothgrrl]

Note to self...get one ASAP!

 

[TravelingGal]

OK, I went to HF and bought one (was in the neighborhood today).

Now I am just waiting for victims.

 

[kenny]

OK, I went to HF and bought one (was in the neighborhood today).

Now I am just waiting for victims.

Go for a walk looking for doggie piles.

 

[luv2sparkle]

I have one of these too and I love it. To seriously increase your enjoyment, every time you zap one, you perform your own
renditions of 'Another one bites the dust'-especially -'and another ones gone, and another ones gone, and another one bites the
dust', but don't forget to add a 'Hey' after that. A little dance doesn't hurt either.



We live in fly land, and I even get enjoyment out of the fly strips. I place one in my window ledge above my kitchen sink. The
flies just land on it like it was a striped party pad. Then I hear them furiously buzzing trying to get off. I had forgotten about
my zapper in the drawer, I may take it out and zap them as well. I hate those things.

By the end of the summer I am usually channelling Mr. Miaggi (of karate kid fame) and killing them mid-air.

 

[Amethyste]

Oh..... I HAVE ONE AT HOME TOO!!!!

I got one for my husband - it beats squashing the bugs on the wall and leave a mark or stain onto the paint

 

[TravelingGal]

Well I have to say this thing works really well, because since we've gotten it we've had not. one. bug. in. the. house.

I might need to go outside to find something to use it on.....

 

[Tuckins1]

Neat! I want one!

 

[TravelingGal]

Kenny, have to thank you again for this tip. One of my all time PS favorite discoveries. It's fly season again and without this thing, I'd go crazy. Especially since my daughter seems to have developed a real phobia of flies.

Thank you, I love it!!! Best few bucks I ever spent!

 

[kenny]

You're welcome, TG.

Yes, ours is out in full force these days too.
That loud ZAP is so satisfying.

I also think we all still carry that primal urge to hunt that goes unfulfilled.

 

[TravelingGal]

I am evil with it too...I bash the flies until I smell burning. Love it when they get stuck in the racket and I keep hitting the button. Zap zap zzzzzzzzzzzzzzap!

I bought one for a friend last year and I don't think they use it. I almost want it back in case something happens to the one I have! But it's still working great...no change of battery or anything.

 

[kenny]

I am evil with it too...I bash the flies until I smell burning. Love it when they get stuck in the racket and I keep hitting the button. Zap zap zzzzzzzzzzzzzzap!

Hahaha.
You are evil too, so I will confess that I love it when they don't instantly die but just convulse on the floor.
I laugh a maniacal laugh then crush it with a paper towel.

Uh Oh! Here comes PETA!

 

[Gothgrrl]

Now that I live in green acres, I really must get one. I never seen so many strange bugs. We just took down a mud nest of wasps. That was the weirdest thing ever. I say that because when we took it down, a bunch of spiders were in it. *shivers*

 

[kenny]

Now that I live in green acres, I really must get one. I never seen so many strange bugs. We just took down a mud nest of wasps. That was the weirdest thing ever. I say that because when we took it down, a bunch of spiders were in it. *shivers*

Yeah, I think the wasps put a spider in each chamber so the new baby has something to eat.
Lovely.

BTW don't swat at wasps with this thing.
It takes me many swats to finally nail a fly.
I'd hate to miss against an angry wasp.

 

[LGK]

I've got that same toy! God, it's so fun, everyone should have one. It's also a bit obsessive-making. I will stand there with the racket and hunt the stupid flies for wayyyy longer than I really should! It does annoy my kitty, he thinks hunting flies is his territory and I'm clearly infringing. I guess he does eat them, whereas I "waste" them by flushing the carcasses. I've offered him the toasted-fly remains but he doesn't seem to like them cooked, he prefers his flies raw and wiggly.

 

[LGK]

I am evil with it too...I bash the flies until I smell burning. Love it when they get stuck in the racket and I keep hitting the button. Zap zap zzzzzzzzzzzzzzap!

Hahaha.
You are evil too, so I will confess that I love it when they don't instantly die but just convulse on the floor.
I laugh a maniacal laugh then crush it with a paper towel.

Uh Oh! Here comes PETA!

There really is something about the racket that brings out the inner 12 year old boy (who knew, apparently I have one!) I do take perverse glee in nuking the flies stuck in it again... and again... and again!

 

[Gothgrrl]

Kenny, yeah I won't use them on bees either. Nothing worse than a mad wasp. I just can't stand spiders, flies, and ants. If there's a fly in the house, I won't sleep until I catch it. Nasty, filthy creatures.

Thanks for telling me about the spiders in the mud nest. Now I'm freaked. I am very, very scared of spiders.

 

[kenny]

This may be the only subject on which people do not vary.

Wouldn't you agree that everyone dislikes flies in their kitchen?

 

[centralsquare]

I wonder if it works on mosquitos...I'm sporting a few bites that are really annoying me!

 

[TristanC]

Now that I live in green acres, I really must get one. I never seen so many strange bugs. We just took down a mud nest of wasps. That was the weirdest thing ever. I say that because when we took it down, a bunch of spiders were in it. *shivers*

Want to know more? Those spiders are still ALIVE! They are in a state of paralysis... suspended animation due to the wasp venom. They are kept alive but paralysed (spider metabolism is amzing, which is why they can stay "fresh" for ages even though paralyzed) because each spider has one wasp egg laid in it (or on it).

Over time, the egg will hatch, and the wasp larvae will burrow into the spider after hatching and start eating the spider's insides.

When it has eaten the spider thoroughly (or enough of it to have reached larval maturity), it will start to pupate and morph into the adult wasp...

All ready to go out and paralyze more spiders for their babies to eat.

Imagine if you were the spider... Ugh.

 

[Gothgrrl]

TristanC, yeah, I didn't need to know more. Lol Anyhow, that would explain why some of the spiders looked like they had the black and yellow stripes on them. I thought some of them were actually baby wasps. Interesting...