Bug-Zappers and Moth Traps

[Leptraps at aol.com]

I have been building light traps since 1982. I have maintained serial numbers 
and today I built 1100-3396. 11=November. 00= the year 2000, and 3396 is the 
number of 15 watt light traps that I have built. This does not include 20 
watt, stationary nor permanent traps. In 1994 while living in Mississippi, I 
did a count from one trap set out twice a week in the same location (The 
traps was set out 33 times at this location). The average kill of moths was 
403, this included some micros and no other insects. 33 X 703 = 23199 moths. 
Think about this, if only 50% of the traps I built (1600) were each used 10 
times per year and each trap killed 500 moths, that would total 8,000,000 
moths per year. Also, I am not the only one making light traps.

Most Bug-Zapper use a 8 watt formed fluorescent tube. Once a fluorescent tube 
is bent, the UV pattern is distorted and is only about 25% effective, To keep 
it simple, 175 moths on average could be attracted to the Bug-Zapper. 
Homelife Products, Inc. a Chicago base distributor, sold 1,300,000 Bug-Zapper 
made in Brazil in 1996. (America Manufacturing News, 1997) Add them numbers 
up. My calculator say "error." Then there is the Love Bug story in Florida. 
How many trillion get plastered to grills! Year after year after year! 
etc...........and people think my bait traps should be illegal

Bug Hugger's unite! Stop the slaughter!

I saw a bumper sticker in LA last week. "Vegetarians, what American Indians 
call a lousy hunter!"


Leroy C. Koehn
202 Redding Road
Georgetown, KY  40324
Home: 502-570-9123
Cell: 502-803-5422
Office: 800-811-9187: Ext # 108
E-mail: Leptraps at aol.com

"let's get among em"
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/private/leps-l/attachments/20001110/d1fbf3d8/attachment.html