One thing that will work to keep bugs out of your wood pile or anything else for that mater is the electronic high frequency sonic bug repellers that they sell for $6 or $8 dollars in places like walgreens, rite aide, cvs, k mart, wal mart & etc.
At my firing range, where we go to spend the day enjoying the outside & our sport, a nest of hornets
inhabits one side of the overhead roof & a bee’s nest on the other side. Yellow jackets.
Of course, I am alleragic to bee stings, so i bought 3 of the electronic noise
makers. People cant hear them, but to insects, they sound like rap music on volume level 100 . The hornet hovered all day , about 20 feet from me, giving me dirty looks but he wouldn’t come any closer. same thing for the bees, they flew around in circles about 20 ft out & wouldn’t come any closer.
The insects sure dont like that noise & wont get close to it if they can possibly help it.
These things run on 1 aa battery or you can get them that plug in the wall. So far as I can tell
after owning them for 4 years is that they really work.
To keep the wood pile clear of insects, you would have to place one or two units in/ on/ near the wood pile & protect it from getting crushed by the wood or rained on & i don’t know what the battery life is with 24/7 opperation so the plug in model looks better for the wood pile
but then you will need to run an extension cord out there.
If your wood pile is near an electric outlet , this would be doable.
The range of 1 unit is about 10 to 12 ft & with 3 units, one pointing outward at the three 120 degrees points of a circle , as high frequency sound wall shield is established, with a diameter of 12 to 20 ft depending on if the sound waves reinforce each other or not or maybe just the insect in question's tollerance for really anoying noise.
Like i said, works for me for most insects, most of the time.
BTway.... just like flashlights when the light goes out because of bad contacts with either the
switch ,bulb or batteries, these units are prone to the same troubles as flash lights, at least the battery powered ones are. The ac plug in model does not have that problem.
my friend complained about getting bite by a misqueto while wearing one but we founs out later that the electronic noise maker had stopped running because of a bad connection.
If you hold the unit, while "on" , right up real close to your ear, you can very faintly hear a high pitched whining noise which means that it is "on" & working properly.
At my firing range, where we go to spend the day enjoying the outside & our sport, a nest of hornets
inhabits one side of the overhead roof & a bee’s nest on the other side. Yellow jackets.
Of course, I am alleragic to bee stings, so i bought 3 of the electronic noise
makers. People cant hear them, but to insects, they sound like rap music on volume level 100 . The hornet hovered all day , about 20 feet from me, giving me dirty looks but he wouldn’t come any closer. same thing for the bees, they flew around in circles about 20 ft out & wouldn’t come any closer.
The insects sure dont like that noise & wont get close to it if they can possibly help it.
These things run on 1 aa battery or you can get them that plug in the wall. So far as I can tell
after owning them for 4 years is that they really work.
To keep the wood pile clear of insects, you would have to place one or two units in/ on/ near the wood pile & protect it from getting crushed by the wood or rained on & i don’t know what the battery life is with 24/7 opperation so the plug in model looks better for the wood pile
but then you will need to run an extension cord out there.
If your wood pile is near an electric outlet , this would be doable.
The range of 1 unit is about 10 to 12 ft & with 3 units, one pointing outward at the three 120 degrees points of a circle , as high frequency sound wall shield is established, with a diameter of 12 to 20 ft depending on if the sound waves reinforce each other or not or maybe just the insect in question's tollerance for really anoying noise.
Like i said, works for me for most insects, most of the time.
BTway.... just like flashlights when the light goes out because of bad contacts with either the
switch ,bulb or batteries, these units are prone to the same troubles as flash lights, at least the battery powered ones are. The ac plug in model does not have that problem.
my friend complained about getting bite by a misqueto while wearing one but we founs out later that the electronic noise maker had stopped running because of a bad connection.
If you hold the unit, while "on" , right up real close to your ear, you can very faintly hear a high pitched whining noise which means that it is "on" & working properly.
