Cockroach unfortunately at the wrong place at wrong time

Yesterday I devised a plan that I would leave the

electric swatter at a corner of the room at night, turn the lights off and go for a power walk. I came back to see something I didn't expect.

The only thing I had in mind was to kill the mosquitoes so they don't bite me while I sleep but the electric swatter is not just meant for mosquitoes, just like how the mosquito repellent is not also only meant for mosquitoes.

Because if the tiny body and nature of insects, this little voltage can actually end their life. I know the mosquitoes are attracted to blue light which is why the add the blue light to this device but I have no idea why the cockroach also came to this. Well it's a good thing to know my room is cockroach free though.

My house is close to a bush so no matter how well you clean it, it's still going to have some insects crawling in. But if there's something I realized is cockroaches don't die easy. When I returned I didn't know how long the cockroach was caught by the electric wire mesh but it was still moving parts of it's body a little bit. It was still alive, or it could be final reflex.

If my intention was to kill the cockroach I would have absolutely gone for the insecticide spray rather than the electric swatter.

I've already talked a little about the electric swatter two days ago. It works in a simple way. The battery powers the capacitor, the capacitor charges the mesh and the moment an insect like this cockroach touches it, the circuit closes and it gets hit with electricity. It smelled like something weird was burning.

The shells of a cockroach are thick and that makes them built to survival so much damage. It outlasted the insects that have died by the voltage of this device.

I guess if your intention is to get rid of a cockroach with this device, one tap isn't going to be enough and you'll see it still moving, still fighting, which means you're not done yet. You would need to keep the device on and the power going through it

The sparks you're seeing is the cockroach burning from the voltage. I really didn't wish this for the insect but it was not my move, it came to the wrong place at the wrong time.

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