Any insect that comes into contact with the hand held insect zapper is fried. Smaller bugs like gnats and mosquitoes are vaporized with a very pleasing flash and a crack. Larger bug, 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 good 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 insect killer.
I don’t like killing anything unnecessarily – I’m married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I’m sorry, they have to go. And the handheld insect 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 electric bug 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 had a electric insect killer of the rechargeable sort for five years and I am ecstatic about them.
These days, I spend a lot of time in northern Thailand with my wife, so you can bet your bottom dollar that my electric insect killer gets a good work-out almost 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 hand held insect zapper to ‘sweep’ the bedroom for bugs before we retire at night, just like a secret agent.
The hand held bug zapper just seems to improve every time I buy one, which makes it hard to give you definite specifications. The electric bug zappers I had four or five years ago, sometimes failed after six to nine months of purchase, although their ability to store a charge reduced a lot after four or five months.
However, the latest electric insect zapper will easily last 9-12 months and still be very pokey after nine months. My newest one even has a strong torch called a headlamp incorporated into it. I’m not sure what it’s supposed to be for, but if you think that vengeance is sweet, you can lure mosquitoes with it and then kill them with your electronic insect killer.
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