Bug-A-Salt

Bug-A-Salt is the brand name of a plastic gun use to kill soft-bodied insects by hitting them with salt particles.

Bug-A-Salt
Privately-owned
Founded2012
HeadquartersSanta Monica, California,
US
Key people
Lorenzo Maggiore - CEO, Erika Schimik - President
ProductsThe Original Salt Gun
Websitehttps://bugasalt.com/

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 they will be protected by their arthropod exoskeleton and will only be stunned.[3]

History

Bug-A-Salt was created by Lorenzo Maggiore and patented in 2012. 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.[4] At the close of Skell's crowd-funding campaign on September 11, 2012, the company had sold greater than 21,400 units of the original model of the Bug-A-Salt salt gun.[5][3]

See also

References
  1. LeBlanc, Cameron (2019-07-15). "You'll Be the Lord of the Flies With This Salt-Firing Gun". Fatherly. Retrieved 2019-09-12.
  2. Blanchard, Keith. "Man vs. Bugs: Who's Winning?". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2019-09-12.
  3. Reagan, Brad (2012-10-14). "In Latest Bid to Lord Over Flies, One Man Tries Salting Them Away - WSJ.com". Online.wsj.com. Retrieved 2013-02-26.
  4. Alvarez, Johanna (2018-01-05). "Want to kill that bug? This shotgun uses table salt to do so". Miami Herald. Retrieved 2019-09-12.
  5. Lorenzo, Maggiore. "BugASalt- The Final Push". indiegogo. indiegogo.com. Retrieved 27 October 2016.
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