If you aren’t already familiar with the hand held insect zapper, you are really going to love it and if you have used one before, I’m sure you’ll welcome it back like an old pal! The handheld insect zapper does just what it says: it zaps bugs. But it does it really, really well.
Any insect that is touched by the wiring of the electric insect killer is electrocuted. Smaller bugs like midges and mosquitoes are vaporized with a very pleasing flash and a crack. Larger bug, like house flies and wasps are killed, but don’t explode like the smaller ones.
Just 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 handheld insect killer.
I don’t like killing things without reason - I’m married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I’m sorry, they have to go. And the hand held insect zapper does it 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 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 - honest, I wasn’t being sexist).
There are two basic types of electric insect zapper. There’s the battery operated bug zapper and the rechargeable electric bug zapper. Both work on the same principle, but I prefer the rechargeable type, 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 very happy with 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 country, where we live. So it comes in real handy. I also use my electric bug killer to ’sweep’ the bedroom for bugs before we go to sleep at night. Just like a CIA agent.
The hand held insect zapper just gets better and better every time I buy one, which makes it hard to give you definite specifications. The electronic bug zappers I used four or five years ago, sometimes failed within 6-9 months of purchase, although their ability to hold a charge reduced a lot after 4-5 months.
However, the new electronic bug killer will last 9-12 months and still be very pokey after nine months. My latest model 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 hand held insect zapper.
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