We were at Home Depot today and I was looking at various things. I wanted some mosquito dunks to put in the swamp cooler, because those little mother effers have been biting my legs and ankles for the last few days. In general, the bug population has exploded thanks to all the rain we’ve been getting. With every good thing comes some sort of annoying bad thing.
I realized while looking at the mosquito dunks that I already had some at home, but then I noticed a bug zapper for $25 and it looked promising. It promised to kill bugs = promising.
We bought it and I hung it up on the back porch. There were a lot of bugs going toward it, but nothing was zapping and they seemed to just be sticking to the grid that supposedly zaps them. They just flailed around as if they got stuck in some super glue. So I unplug it and look at it and read the instructions and look at it some more. I don’t know if I should bring it back (caked with bugs having little mini seizures) or if I should try to take it apart and figure out how the mechanism works that doesn’t seem to be working.
While I was looking at it, I started to think that these bugs are really annoying, but they are also din-din for my lizard friends. If I kill all of them, my lizard friends will starve. “Please, sir, may I have another?” I don’t want my lizard friends turning into poor malnourished children who always want handouts when I walk by their cardboard boxes in the backyard. Perhaps I will attempt to fix the bug zapper, and perhaps my efforts will be unsuccessful.