A half-minute later, they passed a large electronic bug zapper.

Almost from the start, scientists, and anyone else remotely knowledgeable about such things, have been telling us that bug zappers are useless.

Pavilion workers darted about to make sure everything - from the sound system to the bug zappers to the buffet table - was just right.

But for my money, none has more resonance than the bug zapper.

By that point in the game entire walls are made up of glowing blue bug zappers.

In summer, I plug in the bug zapper and fire up the grill.

Weeping in the phone booth to the sound of the bug zapper, I wet my pants.

In 1934 he introduced the electronic insect killer that became the model for all future bug zappers.

A variety of bug zappers are available for indoor and outdoor use.

Learn whether bug zappers can be used indoors from this article.