Bug-A-Salt
# Bug-A-Salt

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

## Description

The Bug-A-Salt device uses granular table salt as non-toxic projectiles to kill insects. 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.

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.

## 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.

The Skell Inc company launched its Bug-A-Salt product in 2012 on the Indiegogo platform. 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.

