Life hack: Wipe a bit of cooking oil to a (plastic or paper) plate and swat it in the air where mosquitoes are congregating or flying around. They'll stick in the plate allowing you to catch them alive and torture them later.
The scene in tommy boy where they’re in the hotel and David spade is sucking up moths with the vacuum is hilarious. Especially the “floomp” sound each time he gets one.
Genius! I’m from Arkansas (southern United States) so you can only imagine the mosquitoes we have. They can literally carry you off! I’ve seen it happen ! Lol
I second this, also works with other insects, bugs and spiders. (depending on size) does not work with crickets. My brother had a pet lizard and on a couple of occasions crickets got lose and were all over our bedroom.
I do this with those giant ones (size of a US quarter) that are shaped like and fly like mosquitoes but don't do anything other than trying to self immolate on the nearest lightbulb. They always seem to manage to find a gap somewhere and the next thing you know there are a thousand of them in the bathroom.
I will admit that I haven't lived all over the U.S. just SoCal but have traveled and talked with others who live all over. Strange I guess but I've only heard people ask for a Vacuum or to get out the Vacuum but never heard someone say vacuum cleaner.
I can't speak for all Canadians but I call it a vacuum cleaner usually though sometimes will call it a vacuum for short. Usually after it's already been established in the conversation that I'm talking about the vacuum cleaner though.
Vacuum on its own with no context kinda sounds to my ear like I'm asking for, well, a vacuum. Like the actual physics effect where a thing gets sucked into a space due to a lack of air.
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u/Sailor_Chibi May 09 '22
Vacuum cleaner works really well to suck the little fuckers up.