If you aren’t already familiar with the hand held bug zapper, you are really going to love it and if you have used one before, I’m sure you’ll welcome it back like an old pal! The handheld bug zapper does just what it says it does: it zaps bugs. But it does it really, very effectively.
Any bug that is touched by the wiring of the hand held bug killer is fried. Smaller insects like midges and mosquitoes are vaporized 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.
Think about it, how many times have these flying insects 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 dozens and dozens of times, I know! It is very gratifying to get one’s own back with the hand held bug zapper.
I don’t relish killing anything without reason – I’m married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I’m sorry, they have to go. And the handheld insect killer dispatches them without any messing about. No waiting and hoping they’ll fly into the ultraviolet light and then into the mesh. No, one sweep of the electric insect 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 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 type, 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 had a electronic bug killer of the rechargeable kind for five years and I am very happy with them.
Now-a-days, I spend a lot of time in northern Thailand with my wife, so you can bet your life that I give my electronic bug killer 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 real handy. I also use my hand held insect killer to ’sweep’ the bedroom for bugs before we go to sleep at night, just like an FBI agent.
The hand held insect zapper just seems to improve every time I buy one, which makes it difficult to give you definite specifications. The electric bug zappers I had four or five years ago, often failed within six to nine months of purchase, although their ability to store a charge reduced a lot after four or five months.
However, the latest electronic bug killer will easily last 9-12 months and still be formidable after nine months. My newest model even has a strong torch called a headlamp built 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 zap them with your hand held insect zapper.
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