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Anti-Bug Light= FAIL

Twista

Twista

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Installed one of these babies and still im getting tons of bugs flying around the light outside my door. Sigh!!!!!

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http://www.amazon.com/97495-Lite-Bul...ef=pd_sim_hi_2

:'( These work for anyone?
 
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GE® Bug Lite. A special coating on the bulb makes its light invisible to flying bugs, so they aren't drawn to it.

D: Lies... all lies then
 
MagnusTheBrewer said:
It puts out a lot of heat. Like Bryophyte said, don't leave it on all the time. 😵
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Yea it does put out a lot of heat. Make sense to not leave it on all the time. But what about the times you leave during the day and come home at night? You dont want to walk in your back yard in pitch black. This is the problem im having. When i turn the light on and leave.. i come back to a back door full of bugs. I was hoping the yellow bugs helped, but i still get those pesky buggers :'(
 
Twista said:
Yea it does put out a lot of heat. Make sense to not leave it on all the time. But what about the times you leave during the day and come home at night? You dont want to walk in your back yard in pitch black. This is the problem im having. When i turn the light on and leave.. i come back to a back door full of bugs. I was hoping the yellow bugs helped, but i still get those pesky buggers :'(
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Put on one of those sensors that turn on the light when it gets dark. Or a motion sensor. They're both pretty cheap.
 
Twista said:
Installed one of these babies and still im getting tons of bugs flying around the light outside my door. Sigh!!!!!

:'( These work for anyone?
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Why would you think adding any light at all would reduce the amount of insects? I don't care what kind of marketing they claim - adding light will attract insects at night. I suppose they claim that the particular wavelength is special. Bollocks.

Try adding a brighter light, far away from your intended hangout. Or to reduce skeeters, one of those fancy propane burnin' bug sucking machines. Or create a honeypot with mosquito dunks and standing water. Permethrin (and its varieties) liberally applied really does help to keep the insects down. That shit is expensive though.
 
Even with a yellow coating, standard bulbs emit light wavelengths that bugs like. CFL bulbs have fewer wavelengths and LED lights even fewer. Try these (in order of effectiveness): a yellow incandescent light (worst), a CFL, a yellow CFL, a white LED light, or a monotone LED light (best). That way you can narrow down the wavelength range as much as you want.

Or, like someone else said, put it on a motion sensor.
 
We live on acreage and change the front porch bulb twice a year. In the cold months we put in a stardard 100 watt bulb and in the hot months we put in a yellow bug light bulb to keep bugs away from the front porch and entering the house. This has worked pretty darn good except the bug bulbs do not keep all the bugs away. It reduces it to about 80 to 90 percent. We figured that since some bugs (like mosquitoes) are attracted to carbon dioxide, then probably others are too, and since we walk in and out of the front door, then it's probably got a much higher level of CO2, at least thats our theory and we are sticking to it.
 
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