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Company type | Privately-owned |
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Founded | 2012 |
Headquarters | Santa Monica, California, US |
Key people | Lorenzo Maggiore - CEO, Erika Schimik - President |
Products | The Original Salt Gun |
Website | https://bugasalt.com/ |
Bug-A-Salt is the brand name of a plastic gun used to kill soft-bodied insects by hitting them with salt particles.
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 will be protected by their arthropod exoskeleton and will only be stunned. [3]
Bug-A-Salt was created by Lorenzo Maggiore and patented in 2012. [4] 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. [5] At the close of Skell's crowd-funding campaign on September 11, 2012, the company had sold more than 21,400 units of the original model of the Bug-A-Salt salt gun. [6] [3]