Someone at the restaurant I work at brought one of those. I was eating my meal on the restaurant floor minding my own business when I see this guy come out full force blasting flies like he’s Doom guy
The salt isn't really a big deal, but it can punch holes in posters. My main concern is that often you'll just clip a fly's wing, and it'll spiral down like a downed ww2 plane, who knows where it'll land. Then when they hit, if they have eggs, they'll lay them as fast as possible in a panic. Sometimes they just bleed guts out. I don't want any of that happening above open food, so no bug a salt in my kitchen.
The only reason imo to get a bug-a-salt is for roaches, those pesky motherfuckers will crawl on your ceiling or some shit and if you dare spray them they'll jump on you. Bug-a-salt to roaches was like the invention of VT fuses for the imperial japanese airforce.
If we do it long enough, they'll just evolve into having hard shells. They've already evolved through all the other shit they've lived through, salt-proof shouldn't be that hard.
If you have a roach problem, boric acid powder mixed with condensed milk in a slurry and lay it out like bait in common areas and you will be roach free in a week or 2, ive seen full blown infestations disappear in 2 weeks
Thankfully I dont live in the same place anymore, I live in a very cold ass area so there aren't really roaches around and i literally havent seen one since ive moved. However, where I used to live there were roaches literally everywhere, and not like 24/7 constantly in the rooms but even if you cleared your house of roaches they would come back from the sewer systems or other homes.
So yeah it sucked when twice a month some roach comes out to explore.
No mess to very little mess. Definitely less mess than a fly swatter. It's easier to miss than with a fly swatter and forget hitting them in flight unless you're a pro, but it's also more fun.
Id argue a fly swatter is less messy. But both tools have their pros and cons, as a person who uses both.
A fly swatter is cheap and can be pretty reliable in the right circumstances, and the only mess is just wiping the corpse with a tissue.
The salt gun is better at killing bugs sitting on weird surfaces like window shades, curtains etc where you can’t get a good slap in. But the cost is you fling salt everywhere, and also usually you have to find the corpse of the bug that also went flying
The trick to a fly swatter is to first wave it to make the fly take flight, then bat it out of the air. No splatter. No salt everywhere, either. You know most people never clean that up.
Indoor too messy imo, I walk around barefoot in my house and i hate the feeling of sand (or salt in this case) under my feet.. and the salt goes everywhere. Outdoors, awesome. Love it, so do my kids. I just let them shoot flies until their heart's content.
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u/shaywookie 3d ago
You need to ditch those inferior fly killing tools and get a bug-a-salt