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Bug-A-Salt
Plastic gun-like device used to kill bugs From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bug-A-Salt is the brand name of a plastic gun used to kill soft-bodied insects by hitting them with salt particles.
Description
The Bug-A-Salt device uses granular table salt as non-toxic projectiles to kill insects.[1] The plastic gun is designed to spray up to 80 discharges of salt, which forms a conical spread pattern, similar to the blast pattern from a shotgun.[2]
Biologist Michael Dickinson of the California Institute of Technology says flies cannot dodge the tiny salt particles, but will be protected by their arthropod exoskeleton and will only be stunned.[3]
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History
Bug-A-Salt was created by Lorenzo Maggiore and patented in 2012.[4] Maggiore invented the tool to kill houseflies at a distance, without creating a mess.[3]
The Skell Inc company launched its Bug-A-Salt product in 2012 on the Indiegogo platform.[5] At the close of Skell's crowd-funding campaign on September 11, 2012, the company had sold more than 21,400 units of the original model of the Bug-A-Salt salt gun.[6][3]
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