The indoor bug zapper is the best way of clearing your immediate vicinity of insects, especially the flying ones like mosquitoes. The electric bug killer vaporizes any insect from a mosquito to a gnat instantly on contact with a nice, loud, electrical ‘zap’!
However, this does not mean to say that the hand held bug killer cannot be operated outside, as long as it is not raining. It should be treated like any other high voltage electrical equipment. Keep the indoor insect killer dry and please do not use it while you are standing in the pool!
Models do vary greatly, but there are really only two kinds of indoor insect killer: the battery operated bug killer and the rechargeable electric bug killer. Both are equally effective at killing bugs and work on the same principle.
The indoor insect zapper resembles a ‘kids’ tennis racquet, but with three sets of ’strings’, which are in fact wires. The central network of wires becomes electrified at the touch of a button, while the other two networks, one on either side, are only earths.
When a bug is trapped between the wires of the electric bug zapper, it creates a short, which vaporizes it instantaneously with a loud crack. The electric bug zapper will kill other insects too, but they tend to fry rather than explode.
I have been using the rechargeable sort for five years and am extremely satisfied with the indoor insect zapper. In fact, the electric bug zapper has come a long way in the last few years. A fully charged indoor insect killer is powerful enough to last for several hundred swipes and will hold it’s charge, if unused, for weeks without any appreciable discharge.
The rechargeable battery unit will take intensive use for the best part of a year, although its ability to hold a charge for several weeks slowly reduces after six or seven months.
The latest indoor insect killer I’ve used has a main on/off switch, an LED that comes on when it is activated (the brightness of this light also gives an indication of the battery’s strength) and an LED that comes on when it is plugged in for recharge.
The instructions suggest that it should be (re)charged for sixteen hours. I usually put it on charge over night once or twice every week or two, although the indoor insect killer shows a marked increase in performance with only a couple of hours charging.
The latest version I’ve seen also comes with a strong beam called a ‘headlamp’. I have found this very useful when walking in the garden, but I’m not sure whether it’s meant to attract the flies in the dark so that you can kill them if you’re feeling bored or just vindictive. You know, a bit like an Anglerfish.
I’ve used the headlamp on my indoor bug zapper for that reason as well, but the light uses a lot of battery power. All in all, the indoor bug zapper is a huge asset at any outdoor event. The hand held insect zapper is useful to ‘clean out’ your bedroom before retiring; it’s unequalled for evening mosquitoes and it will clear a lunch table of wasps too.
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