If you aren’t already familiar with the handheld bug zapper, you are really going to love it and if you have had one before, I’m sure you’ll welcome it back like an old friend! The electric insect killer does just what it says it does: it zaps bugs. But it does it really, very effectively.
Any bug that comes into contact with the electronic insect killer is fried. Smaller bugs like gnats and mosquitoes are vaporized with a very pleasing flash and a crack. Larger insect, like house flies and wasps die, but don’t explode like the smaller ones.
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 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 your own back with the electric bug zapper.
I don’t like killing things unnecessarily – I’m married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I’m sorry, they can die. And the handheld insect zapper does it without any messing about. No waiting and hoping they’ll fly into the ultraviolet light and into the mesh. No, one sweep of the electric 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 hand held 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 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 been using a hand held bug zapper of the rechargeable kind for five years and I am ecstatic about them.
Now-a-days, I spend a great deal of time in northern Thailand with my wife, so you can bet your bottom dollar that I give my handheld insect killer a good work-out practically every night. We usually eat in the garden in the evening and all socializing is done outside by tradition, especially in the rural areas, where we live, so it comes in real handy. I also use my electronic bug zapper to ’sweep’ the bedroom for bugs before we retire at night, just like a CIA agent.
The electric bug 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, often failed within 6-9 months of purchase, although their ability to store a charge reduced a lot after 4-5 months.
However, the new handheld insect killer will last 9-12 months and still be very pokey after nine months. My latest model even has a powerful light 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 lure mosquitoes with it and then kill them with your electronic bug zapper.
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