As the armies of the nasty insect kingdom begin to burrow and creepy crawl out of their wintry hiding holes, we, the people of the earth, must be prepared for war – but is their ever a situation where one might have the opportunity to zap a bug to death, yet choose not to do so?
To bug zap or not to zap, that is the question.
Lets analyze a couple common insect encounter scenarios with no so clear cut remedies and try to chart an appropriate path for action.It’s a warm summers afternoon, and whilst casually glancing across the baseline of your living room carpet you notice a large and potentially dangerous spider scampering across your Berber shag. Your bug zapper is nearby and fully charged – but this particular spider happens to be on its way out of your home. It is just a couple creepy spider steps away from slipping under your front door and disappearing forever back into its natural habitat. To zap or not to zap?
Answer: Zap!
Never let the chance to end a spiders life slip from your grasp. Don’t justify your own lazyness by trying to pretend that out of sight out of mind applies to insects, because it does not. What you need to remember is that while that spider might be about to leave your home – its likely headed to its home, to breed. You will pay dearly for passing on a spider killing opportunity down the road once that same spider survives, thrives, and breeds a hot batch of warm baby spiders which will assuredly come swarming into your home and crawling into your ears while you sleep. Waste that little sucker with a bug zapper instead and cut the head off the baby spider snake before it starts squirming.
Its midnight on a balmy Saturday in mid July. You are lying in bed enjoying the days last cigarette, looking forward to a good night’s sleep when you see something disturbing. A large wasp is clinging onto the top of your curtains, its motionless, and hanging on to the fabric, rolling with the ebb and flow of the breezes as they blow into your room. Part of you just wants to call it a night, and deal with the wasp in the morning. To zap or not to zap?
Answer: Zap!
Pretty much the answer is always zap if you are catching the drift of this post. Although this is a particularly dangerous scenario as it involves a wasp that is clearly trying to lull you into a false sense of security. If there is one tried and true rule of thumb when it comes to managing and controlling the insect population in and around your home, it’s never trust a wasp. The fact of the matter is that most wasps are very slow movers – and because they lack advanced evasive skills they tend to avoid you in the daytime while you are active, and instead bide their time waiting for the right moment to strike. While you are sleeping is very often the right moment – so fight the urge to succumb to Mr. Sandman and jump up out of that bed, grab your bug zapper racket and blast that wasp to kingdom come. You will thank yourself in the morning when you wake up well rested, and sting free. An extra 30 seconds of sleep is not worth a huge red welt on your forehead the next morning.
