I don’t leave food out. Garbage gets tossed, counters are cleaned. I replaced half the windows in my home and caulked up the rest. I bought a salt gun and have been picking them off but there’s always more.
How do I figure out where these little fuckers are getting in?
The mentioning of a salt gun just sent me down a rabbit hole…
And this below must be the most US thing I have seen in quite a while! 😆
Also found a fantastic direct translation with hilarious WTF-factor on the page (for anyone speaking German):
They’re incredible and by far the best bug killing method I’ve ever used. They don’t move when you’re pointing it at them from a meter away and the salt usually just rattles them to death so you aren’t picking up bug pieces. Sometimes it vaporizes them, though lol
Don’t make the same mistake I did and shoot it near a house plant, though.
Care to translate that German for us lesser people?
Yes, looks effective!
When young, I had a blowpipe shooting sucker cup darts.
Most effective mosquito hunting device I ever owned. But left a mess of the target and was slightly cross to re-use the darts ;-)
I will give translating a try, but guess some of the silly punch will get lost in translation:
“Will the salt squirt [on] the beetle?
No, the beetle stays complete for an easy cleaning”
(Where “bespritzen” may also be used as a colloquial term for ejaculating on someone or something and is in general only used for liquids)
That’s pretty funny. Even funnier that it’s saying almost exactly what I said!
Yes, after thinking about it for a few seconds it becomes clear what they are trying to say.
The direct 1-to-1 translation to German is just really bad and funny sounding :-)
What salt gun do you use? I’ve never heard of them and now I’m intrigued
The original Bug-A-Salt. I did some research and the knockoffs are nowhere near as good. And I sure as hell didn’t want the one with CO cartridges.
I don’t work for them but it was worth every penny. I know 2 other people with them and they say the same.
I can almost hear the grinding noise this will make when you step on it inside the house. Or the nasty feeling of salt in your socks.
It uses a minuscule amount of salt. Actually works better than a swatter or the electric one. The form factor is a bit silly, but it gets the job done.
I keep a hash mark count on mine.