charlie b wrote:
Gene T wrote:

Charlie b ,
Was the bug zapper from Harbor Freight.

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Was tempted to try it on a
yellow jacket but my self preservation instinct
kicked in before I acted on that impulse. Yellow
jackets are nasty beasts and I figure the last
thing I need to deal with is an electrically irritated
bug.

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They work just fine on wasps and hornets. As long as you can touch them
with the metal screen section, even for a millisecond (there, now my
post is on-topic with the metric issue), it'll knock them down and
paralyze them. When I zap the bigger wasps around here--papar wasps or
even giant hornets--for around 3 seconds, their legs and antennae will
still move slowly for a day or so before they die, but they can't use
their legs or wings to move, they just wiggle their appendages around
in slow motion. Hold them for 5-10 seconds and they're fried.

It's the very best tool I've used for hunting them down when they get
inside the house, which is not infrequently here. I've been stung a few
times, but not since using the HF unit to hunt them down. So don't
worry about irritating them electrically: if you touch them at all,
they're down. If you miss, keep swinging....

Vespidaically Yours,
H