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Bug-a-Salt (2013)

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Re: Bug-a-Salt (2013)

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Post by gadders »

S_A_P wrote: post #2

Ive one of these- they were selling them at the Sams Club and I have a lot of fun with it. Definitely recommend using Morton kosher salt with it. Seems to strike the right balance between mass and aerodynamics...

I have one of these as well. I'll need to try kosher salt to see if that does a better job of killing wasps.

Re: Bug-a-Salt (2013)

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Post by ses1984 »

ZoomZoomZoom wrote: post #30

With age I came to conclusion that anything making killing of any kind even remotely fun is utterly wrong. It might be necessary with dangerous insects, but it should not be fun or recreational.

I can see how this would be more effective in some areas of my home than a fly swatter, where you can't wind up easily. Fly swatter work because their arc surprises flies (in my experience).

If you find it fun to use or repugnant that's a personal thing.

Flies are yucky pests that I don't want to have around.

Re: Bug-a-Salt (2013)

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Post by testuser66 »

objectivetruth wrote: post #39
ZoomZoomZoom wrote: post #30

With age I came to conclusion that anything making killing of any kind even remotely fun is utterly wrong. It might be necessary with dangerous insects, but it should not be fun or recreational.

I'm curious if you grew up and/or ever lived in an environment with a serious insect problem. Even the common housefly is just a "mere annoyance" one at a time... but dozens or hundreds can have significant effects on physical and mental health. I'm a huge softie about mammals, birds, reptiles... but I am OK with the complete and total extermination of all insect life inside my domicile.

Everyone that is fully against killing insects has likely never lived anywhere that has insects.

Re: Bug-a-Salt (2013)

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Post by gadders »

et2o wrote: post #7

What’s the volume of salt? Not sure if I’d rather have a fly buzzing around or salt all over my house

Mrs Gadders was pretty firm that it was not to be used within the house.

Re: Bug-a-Salt (2013)

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Post by some_random »

ZoomZoomZoom wrote: post #30

With age I came to conclusion that anything making killing of any kind even remotely fun is utterly wrong. It might be necessary with dangerous insects, but it should not be fun or recreational.

This is a really interesting position, I'm interested in how you arrived at it. Do you think that if killing something is fun it will result in more things being killed, or is your issue more fundamentally with the idea of killing being fun?

Re: Bug-a-Salt (2013)

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Post by derefr »

> It is possible to shoot flies out of the air. There is nothing else like it.

I mean, personally, I just spray them with Windex. (Which doesn’t so much kill them as stop them from being able to fly temporarily, at which point you can find them on the ground trying to slowly walk away, and do as you will with them.) And it has the convenient property that you already probably have a sprayer-bottle of it in your house. If you don’t, a spray bottle of {vinegar, soapy water, alcohol} works, too.

Also, these droplets of light solvents just dry cleanly off of whatever surface the droplets land on, without creating a scratch or a stain. I can’t imagine what spraying salt everywhere would do to my painted walls and (hardwood) floors.

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