In doing your usual excellent job of presenting information in interesting and lighthearted
ways, you implied that bug zappers control mosquitoes. In fact, bug zappers don’t attract mosquitoes and therefore kill very few of them. They
do kill large numbers of harmless and even beneficial insects, including pollinators and insects
such as the crane fly, which would be out there eating mosquitoes if they weren’t zapped.
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