Electronic Bug Zapper
If you aren’t already acquainted with the electronic bug killer, you are really going to like it and if you have had 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 comes into contact with the electronic insect zapper is fried. Smaller insects 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 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 electric bug killer.
I don’t like killing things unnecessarily - I’m married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I’m sorry, they have to go. And the hand held bug killer dispatches them without any messing about. No waiting and hoping they’ll fly into the ultraviolet light and into the mesh. No, one sweep of the electronic 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 - I assure you, I wasn’t being sexist).
There are two basic sorts of hand held bug 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 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 been using a electronic bug zapper of the rechargeable kind for five years and I am ecstatic about them.
Nowadays, I spend a lot of time in Thailand with my wife, so you can bet your bottom dollar that I give my electric insect 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 very handy. I also use my hand held bug killer to ’sweep’ the bedroom for bugs before we go to sleep at night. Just like a CIA agent.
The hand held insect 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 hand held bug killer will last 9-12 months and still be very pokey after nine months. My latest one even has a powerful torch called a headlamp built into it. I’m not sure what it’s supposed to be for, but if you feel that revenge is sweet, you can attract mosquitoes with it and then kill them with your electronic bug killer.