If you aren’t already familiar with the hand held bug killer, you are really going to like it and if you have used one before, I’m sure you’ll welcome it back like an old pal! The handheld insect killer does just what it says: it zaps bugs. But it does it really, really well.
Any insect that is touched by the wiring of the handheld bug zapper is fried. Smaller bugs 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 hundreds of times, I know! It is very gratifying 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 can die. And the electric bug zapper 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 bug 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).
There are two basic sorts of electronic insect 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 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 electric bug zapper of the rechargeable kind for five years and I am ecstatic about them.
These days, I spend a great deal of time in northern Thailand with my wife, so you can bet your life that my electric bug zapper gets a good work-out almost every night. 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 very handy. I also use my electronic insect killer to ’sweep’ the bedroom for bugs before we go to sleep at night, just like a secret agent.
The electric bug zapper just seems to improve every time I buy one, which makes it hard to give you definite specifications. The electric bug zappers I had four or five years ago, sometimes failed after six to nine months of purchase, although their ability to store a charge reduced a lot after four or five months.
However, the new hand held insect killer will last 9-12 months and still be very pokey after nine months. My latest model 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 lure mosquitoes with it and then kill them with your hand held bug killer.
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