Electric Bug Zapper
If you are not yet familiar with the electric insect killer, you are really going to love it and if you have had one before, I bet you’ll welcome it back like an old, long-lost friend! The hand held insect killer does just what it says it does: it zaps bugs. But it does it really, really effectively.
Any bug that is touched by the wiring of the electric bug killer is electrocuted. Smaller bugs like midges and mosquitoes are disintegrated with a very pleasing flash and a crack. Larger insect, 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 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 bug zapper.
I don’t relish killing things unnecessarily – I’m married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I’m sorry, they have to go. And the handheld insect killer dispatches them without any more ado. No waiting and hoping they’ll fly into the ultraviolet light and then into the mesh. No, one sweep of the electric bug killer 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 sorts of electric bug 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 suppose 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 hand held insect killer of the rechargeable kind for five years and I am very happy with them.
These days, I spend a lot of time in northern Thailand with my wife, so you can bet your bottom dollar that my handheld insect zapper gets 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 country, where we live, so it comes in very handy. I also use my electronic bug killer to ‘sweep’ the bedroom for bugs before we retire at night, just like a secret agent.
The hand held bug killer 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, sometimes failed within six to nine months of purchase, although their ability to store a charge was less after four or five months.
However, the new handheld insect zapper will last 9-12 months and still be formidable after nine months. My latest one 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 revenge is sweet, you can lure mosquitoes with it and then kill them with your handheld insect killer.
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