Hand Held Bug Zapper
Posted by Owen Jones in Uncategorized, tags: accessories, advice, electronics, gadgets, garden, happiness, holidays, insects, other, products, review, self help, skin care, travel, UncategorizedIf you aren’t already familiar with the electric insect 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 friend! The handheld bug killer does just what it says: it zaps bugs. But it does it really, very well.
Any insect that is touched by the wiring of the electric bug zapper 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.
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 satisfying to get your own back with the electric insect zapper.
I don’t like killing anything unnecessarily - I’m married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I’m sorry, they can die. And the electric insect 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 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).
Basically, there are two kinds of handheld 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 been using a electronic bug zapper of the rechargeable kind for five years and I am ecstatic about them.
Now-a-days, I spend a great deal of time in northern Thailand with my wife, so you can bet your life that I give my electric bug killer 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 real handy. I also use my electric bug killer to ’sweep’ the bedroom for bugs before we retire at night, just like an FBI agent.
The handheld 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 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 electric 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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