Electric Bug Zapper

By Owen Jones

If you are not yet familiar with the electronic insect zapper, 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 handheld bug 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 handheld insect zapper 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 lovely 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 handheld insect killer.

I don’t like killing things unnecessarily – I’m married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I’m sorry, they can die. And the electric bug killer dispatches them without any more ado. No waiting and hoping they’ll fly into the ultraviolet light and into the mesh. No, one sweep of the electronic 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).

Basically, there are two sorts of hand held bug zapper. There is the battery operated bug zapper and the rechargeable electric bug zapper. Both operate on the same principle, but I prefer the rechargeable type, although I suppose you could use rechargeable batteries too. However, I think that they would be more expensive that the bug zapper in the first place. Anyway, I have had a electronic insect killer of the rechargeable sort for five years and I am very happy with them.

Nowadays, I spend a lot of time in Thailand with my wife, so you can bet your bottom dollar that I give my handheld 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 rural areas, where we live. So it comes in real handy. I also use my electric insect zapper to ‘sweep’ the bedroom for bugs before we go to sleep at night. Just like an FBI agent.

The hand held 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 hold a charge reduced a lot after 4-5 months.

However, the new electric insect killer will last 9-12 months and still be formidable after nine months. My latest one even has a powerful light called a headlamp built into it. I’m not sure what it’s supposed to be for, but if you feel that vengeance is sweet, you can attract mosquitoes with it and then kill them with your handheld bug zapper.

Have you ever heard of a handheld bug zapper? If you haven’t, or if you are interested in getting a handheld bug zapper, just click one of the links to our web site or blog.

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