Hand Held Bug Zapper
If you are not yet acquainted with the handheld bug zapper, you are really going to love it and if you have used one before, I bet you’ll welcome it back like an old, long-lost friend! The handheld bug killer does just what it says it does: it zaps bugs. But it does it really, very effectively.
Any insect that is touched by the wiring of the hand held insect killer is electrocuted. Smaller insects like midges and mosquitoes are disintegrated 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.
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 one’s own back with the electronic insect killer.
I don’t like killing anything unnecessarily – I’m married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I’m sorry, they have to go. And the electric bug 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 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 – I assure you, I wasn’t being sexist).
There are two basic types of hand held insect killer. 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 electronic bug zapper of the rechargeable kind for five years and I am ecstatic about them.
These days, I spend a lot of time in northern Thailand with my wife, so you can bet your life that my handheld bug zapper gets 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 very handy. I also use my electric insect zapper to ‘sweep’ the bedroom for bugs before we retire at night, just like a secret agent.
The electric bug killer just gets better and better every time I buy one, which makes it difficult 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 latest electric bug zapper will easily last 9-12 months and still be very pokey after nine months. My newest one even has a strong light called a headlamp incorporated into it. I’m not certain what it’s supposed to be for, but if you think that vengeance is sweet, you can attract mosquitoes with it and then kill them with your electronic insect killer.
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