Do Bug Zappers Work? Q. I assumed I read someplace that bug zappers don’t actually work. My neighbor’s zapper is driving me crazy with that ZZZZT noise all night. I’d like to show him proof that each one he’s doing is annoying his neighbor. A. Yes, there is some scientific data on the usefulness of bug zappers, but first we want to distinguish between the bug zappers that homeowners use of their yards to (hopefully) kill mosquitoes, and insect zapper the industrial insect light traps that pest control professionals use largely in restaurants, meals plants, and warehouses. These costly industrial traps are used mainly to kill home flies they usually do work. The comparatively inexpensive yard bug zappers kill loads of flying insects, just not mosquitoes. Bug zappers use ultraviolet gentle to attract mosquitoes to a metallic grid the place they're electrocuted or "zapped." People who own these traps swear by them. They level to the piles of dead insects that they empty out of the trap each morning. And those insects do look like mosquitoes. But principally they're midges, harmless fliers that do not chunk and insect zapper are thought-about useful. Bug zappers really entice and kill only a few mosquitoes. Instead, the ultraviolet light draws hordes of insects into the yard that wouldn’t have been there otherwise. Yard zappers have never fared very well in analysis exams. One study discovered that 89% of the zapped insects have been midges