If you aren’t already acquainted with the electronic insect zapper, you are really going to like it and if you have had one before, I’m sure you’ll welcome it back like an old pal! The electronic bug killer does just what it says it does: it zaps bugs. But it does it really, very effectively.
Any bug that is touched by the wiring of the electric bug killer is electrocuted. Smaller bugs like midges and mosquitoes are vaporized with a very satisfying flash and a crack. Larger insect, like house flies and wasps are killed, but don’t explode like the smaller ones.
Think about it, how many times have these flying bugs taken the edge off an otherwise lovely evening in the garden? Or how many times have you not been able to get a good night’s sleep, because you know there’s at least one mosquito in the bedroom. It has happened to me dozens and dozens of times, I know! It is very satisfying to get one’s revenge with the electric bug killer.
I don’t like killing things unnecessarily – I’m married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I’m sorry, they have to go. And the electric insect zapper dispatches them without any messing about. No waiting and hoping they’ll fly into the ultraviolet light and into the mesh. No, one sweep of the electric bug zapper and the mosie’s gone and you can hear whether you got her or not. (I say her, because the sucking mosquitoes always are females – I assure you, I wasn’t being sexist).
Basically, there are two sorts of hand held insect zapper. There is the battery operated bug zapper and the rechargeable electric bug zapper. Both operate on the same principle, but I prefer the rechargeable type, although I suppose you could use rechargeable batteries too. However, I think that they would be more expensive that the bug zapper in the first place. Anyway, I have had a electric bug killer of the rechargeable kind for five years and I am very happy with them.
Now-a-days, I spend a great deal of time in northern Thailand with my wife, so you can bet your life that I give my handheld bug killer a good work-out practically every night. We usually eat in the garden in the evening and all socializing is done outside by tradition, especially in the country, where we live, so it comes in very handy. I also use my handheld bug zapper to ’sweep’ the bedroom for bugs before we go to sleep at night, just like a CIA agent.
The electronic bug zapper just seems to improve every time I buy one, which makes it difficult to give you definite specifications. The electric bug zappers I had four or five years ago, sometimes failed within six to nine months of purchase, although their ability to hold a charge reduced a lot after four or five months.
However, the new handheld insect killer will last 9-12 months and still be very pokey after nine months. My latest one even has a powerful torch called a headlamp incorporated into it. I’m not sure what it’s supposed to be for, but if you feel that vengeance is sweet, you can lure mosquitoes with it and then kill them with your handheld bug zapper.
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