Electronic Bug Zapper
Frank Williams | March 5, 2010If you are not yet acquainted with the electronic insect zapper, you are really going to like it and if you have used one before, I bet you’ll welcome it back like an old, long-lost pal! The hand held bug killer does just what it says it does: it zaps bugs. But it does it really, really effectively.
Any bug that comes into contact with the hand held bug zapper is fried. Smaller insects like gnats and mosquitoes are disintegrated with a very satisfying flash and a crack. Larger insect, like house flies and wasps die, but don’t explode like the smaller ones.
Just 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 decent 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 own back with the electronic insect killer.
I don’t like killing things unnecessarily – I’m married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I’m sorry, they can die. And the hand held bug killer does it without any more ado. No waiting and hoping they’ll fly into the ultraviolet light and into the mesh. No, one sweep of the electronic insect 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).
There are two basic sorts of hand held insect killer. There’s the battery operated bug zapper and the rechargeable electric bug zapper. Both work on the same principle, but I prefer the rechargeable kind, although I guess you could use rechargeable batteries too. (I bet they would be more expensive that the bug zapper in the first place). Anyway, I have been using a electric insect killer of the rechargeable kind for five years and I am ecstatic about them.
These days, I spend a great deal of time in northern Thailand with my wife, so you can bet your life that my electronic bug zapper gets 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 real handy. I also use my electronic bug killer to ‘sweep’ the bedroom for bugs before we retire at night, just like a secret agent.
The handheld insect killer 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, often 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 hand held insect zapper will last 9-12 months and still be formidable 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 attract mosquitoes with it and then kill them with your handheld insect zapper.
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