Oct 4, 2009 11:24 pm US/Pacific
Buy It And Try It: The Bug Buster
RIO LINDA, Calif. (CBS13) ―
Angela Wright hates bugs, but they're all over her family's Rio Linda home.
"They're on steroids," she said. "Hairy big scary spiders and I'm too scared to touch them."
She usually calls on her loved ones to euthanize the critters. In fact, we talked with her mom just after she squished one inside the house.
"I saw it crawling up the wall, I got up out of my chair and smashed it with my finger," Angela's mom said.
They called on North American Termite & Pest Control. The company's motto: Your Bugs, Our Problem. Bug terminator Bruce has been killing bugs for 20 years, but the Bug Buster is supposed to stop the killing altogether.
It's supposed to safely catch spiders, crawling bugs and flies and you can let them go. The trick: A tube and a vacuum.
"I'm nor sure it's going to suck up some of the bigger bugs, but we'll give it a try," Bruce said.
He was nice enough to catch some critters before we showed up, including a big black widow, but we started with a fly.
Bruce goes in, gets close, but has some difficulty sucking the fly into the tube. After some effort, it finally becomes trapped inside the tube, still alive.
Bruce then tried it out on spiders and some roly-poly creatures. It isn't until the tube touches the spider that it gets sucked in, and the same problem occurs with the roly poly.
"He's not really being sucked, you kind of have to push him in then he's sucked," Bruce said.
Now, to the big, ugly black widow.
Bruce chases it with the Bug Buster, and the black widow almost high tails it to freedom. It wasn't trapped in the tube until Bruce covered the spider with the Bug Buster.
In the end, they like the concept but think the Bug Buster's vacuum isn't quite strong enough.
"It needs a little more umph," Angela's mom said.
It works off a 9-volt battery. I paid $11.95 plus shipping and handling and bought it from AsSeenOnTVGuys.com
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