If you are not yet familiar with the electric insect zapper, you are really going to love it and if you have had one before, I bet you’ll welcome it back like an old, long-lost friend! The electric insect zapper does just what it says it does: it zaps bugs. But it does it really, very effectively.
Any insect that comes into contact with the electronic insect killer is fried. Smaller bugs like gnats and mosquitoes are vaporized with a very satisfying flash and a crack. Larger insect, like house flies and wasps die, but don’t explode like the smaller ones.
How many times have these flying bugs taken the edge off an otherwise enjoyable 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 hundreds of times, I know! It is very satisfying to get one’s own back with the hand held bug killer.
I don’t like killing anything without just reason – I’m married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I’m sorry, they have to go. And the hand held bug killer dispatches them without any more ado. No waiting and hoping they’ll fly into the ultraviolet light and then into the mesh. No, one sweep of the electronic insect killer and the mosie’s gone and you can hear whether you killed her or not. (I say her, because the sucking mosquitoes always are females – honest, I wasn’t being sexist).
Basically, there are two sorts of hand held bug 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 kind, although I guess 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 insect killer of the rechargeable kind for five years and I am ecstatic about them.
Nowadays, I spend a lot of time in Thailand with my wife, so you can bet your bottom dollar that I give my electric bug killer a good work-out practically every evening. We usually eat in the garden in the evening and all socializing is done outside by tradition, especially in the rural areas, where we live. So it comes in real handy. I also use my electronic insect zapper to ’sweep’ the bedroom for bugs before we go to sleep at night. Just like a CIA agent.
The hand held insect killer seems to improve every time I buy one, which makes it difficult to give you definite specifications. The hand held bug zappers I bought four or five years ago, sometimes failed within six to nine months of purchase, although their ability to store a charge was less after four or five months.
However, the new handheld bug zapper will last 9-12 months and still be very pokey after nine months. My latest one even has a powerful light 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 electronic insect killer.
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