The electric bug killer is the best way of clearing the space around you of insects, especially the flying ones like mosquitoes. The electric insect killer evaporates any insect from a mosquito to a gnat instantaneously on contact with a nice, loud, electrical ‘crack’!
However, this is not to say that the electric insect killer cannot be used outdoors, so long as it is not raining. It should be handled just like any other high voltage electrical item. Keep the electric insect killer dry and please do not use it when you are standing in water!
Models do vary a lot, but there are basically only two kinds of hand held insect zapper: the battery operated bug zapper and the rechargeable electric insect zapper. Both models are equally effective at killing bugs and work on the same principle.
The indoor bug zapper looks like a ‘kids’ tennis racket, but with three sets of ’strings’, which are in fact wires. The central grid of wires becomes live 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 insect killer 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 electric bug killer. In fact, the electric bug zapper has come a long way over the last few years. A fully charged hand held bug zapper is powerful enough to last for several hundred swipes and will hold it’s charge, if unused, for weeks without any appreciable discharge.
The battery recharge unit will take intensive use for the best part of a year, although its ability to hold a charge for a few weeks gradually diminishes after six or seven months.
The most recent 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 indicates the battery’s strength) and an LED that comes on when the zapper is on recharge.
The instructions suggest that the bug zapper should be (re)charged for about sixteen hours. However, I usually put mine on charge over night once or twice every week or two, although the electric insect zapper shows a large increase in performance with only a few hours recharging.
The latest model I’ve seen also comes with a powerful light called a ‘headlamp’. I have found this very useful when walking in the garden, but I’m not sure whether it’s supposed to lure the mosquitoes in the dark so that you can zap them if you’re feeling bored or just vindictive. You know, a bit like an Anglerfish.
I’ve used the headlamp on my hand held insect killer for that too, but the light uses a lot of battery power. All in all, the hand held bug zapper is a big asset to any outdoor event. The hand held insect killer is useful to ‘clean out’ your bedroom before retiring; it’s unequalled for evening mosquitoes and it will clear a lunch table of wasps as well.
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