Electric Bug Zapper
If you are not yet acquainted with the electronic insect zapper, you are really going to love 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 zapper does just what it says it does: it zaps bugs. But it does it really, very well.
Any insect that is touched by the wiring of the hand held bug killer is fried. Smaller insects 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 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 handheld insect killer.
I don’t relish killing things without reason – I’m married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I’m sorry, they can die. And the electric insect killer dispatches them without any messing about. No waiting and hoping they’ll fly into the ultraviolet light and then into the mesh. No, one sweep of the hand held 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 – honest, I wasn’t being sexist).
Basically, there are two types of electric 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 type, 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 been using a handheld insect zapper of the rechargeable sort 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 hand held insect zapper 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 country, where we live. So it comes in very handy. I also use my electronic insect killer to ‘sweep’ the bedroom for bugs before we go to sleep at night. Just like a CIA agent.
The electronic bug zapper seems to get better 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, often failed within six to nine months of purchase, although their ability to hold a charge was less after four or five months.
However, the latest hand held insect killer 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 attract mosquitoes with it and then zap them with your handheld insect zapper.
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