Do Bug Zappers Work? Q. I believed I learn somewhere that bug zappers don’t actually work. My neighbor’s zapper is driving me crazy with that ZZZZT noise all night time. I’d like to point out him proof that every one he’s doing is annoying his neighbor. A. Yes, there is some scientific data on the usefulness of bug zappers, but first we'd like to tell apart between the bug zappers that homeowners use in their yards to (hopefully) kill mosquitoes, and the industrial insect mild traps that pest management professionals use largely in eating places, food plants, and warehouses. These expensive commercial traps are used mainly to kill home flies they usually do work. The relatively inexpensive yard bug zappers kill plenty of flying insects, simply not mosquitoes. Bug zappers use ultraviolet light to attract mosquitoes to a steel grid the place they're electrocuted or "zapped." People who personal these traps swear by them. They level to the piles of useless insects that they empty out of the entice each morning. And people insects do appear to be mosquitoes. But largely they are midges, harmless fliers that do not chunk and are considered helpful. Bug zappers truly entice and kill only a few mosquitoes. Instead, the ultraviolet gentle draws hordes of insects into the yard that wouldn’t have been there in any other case. Yard zappers have by no means fared very effectively in research tests. One study discovered that 89% of the zapped insects were midges