Preventing Bugs in the Yard

While we are outdoors, attempting to have a good time and enjoy our picnic or outdoors meal, we’ve got friends and visitors, many times unwelcome visitors, who are trying to eat our meal, or to eat us.

There are multiple ways to prevent them from feasting on us, or our meal, that can range from something as simple as a citronella candle, to a tiki torch filled with bug repelling fluids, to various traps, pesticides we’d all prefer not to use and on upt to the electric bug zappers that hang from a pole in the back yard.

Newly shaped bug zappers are interesting and even attractive

Citronella candles are effective on mosquitos, on the smaller no see um bugs, and many other types of bugs but not all.
Bug zappers too, the electrical-discharge insect-control system, which is something that lures bugs into it and kills them with electricity are also effective in some areas however not on all insects.

The bug zapper, while effective and a great means of removing some of them, also is not completely effective on all types of bugs. Largely because by virtue of the type of light they emit, they will trap and kill bugs which are attrracted to ultraviolet lights, including moths, lightening bugs, large june bugs and many other biting or stinging insects they don’t, unfortunately kill mosquitos because they are not attracted to this type light.
Bug zappers can also be garden amusements, coming in some newer style of housings in recent years, including various shapes and colors.

So whats the answer to being pest free when you want to seat yourself outside for an evenings entertainment.
The answer, or the ideal answer would be a combination of the two, if you prefer, as most of us do, to remain pesticide free and not risk poisoning our gardens, yards or pets and family.

One of the most natural things we can use, is citronella, in candle form in the tables, in addition to a bug zapping light and perhaps netting to provide for some porch area that is free of pests and able to be enjoyed even on the most humid, and therefore the buggiest evenings.

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