Hand Held Bug Zapper
Posted by Frank Williams 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 hand held bug killer, you are really going to love it and if you have had one before, I’m sure you’ll welcome it back like an old friend! The electronic bug zapper does just what it says: it zaps bugs. But it does it really, very well.
Any insect that comes into contact with the hand held insect killer is electrocuted. Smaller insects like gnats and mosquitoes are disintegrated with a very satisfying flash and a crack. Larger bug, 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 handheld bug zapper.
I don’t relish killing anything unnecessarily - I’m married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I’m sorry, they have to go. And the electric bug zapper does it without any more ado. No waiting and hoping they’ll fly into the ultraviolet light and then into the mesh. No, one sweep of the electric bug killer and the mosie’s gone and you can hear whether you killed her or not. (I say her, because the sucking mosquitoes always are females - honest, I wasn’t being sexist).
Basically, there are two types of hand held bug killer. There is the battery operated bug zapper and the rechargeable electric bug zapper. Both operate on the same principle, but I prefer the rechargeable kind, although I guess 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 insect zapper 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 insect zapper 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 very handy. I also use my electronic bug zapper to ’sweep’ the bedroom for bugs before we go to sleep at night. Just like an FBI agent.
The handheld insect killer seems to get better every time I buy one, which makes it hard to give you definite specifications. The hand held bug zappers I bought four or five years ago, often failed after six to nine months of purchase, although their ability to hold a charge was less after four or five months.
However, the new handheld bug killer will last 9-12 months and still be very pokey 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 revenge is sweet, you can lure mosquitoes with it and then kill them with your electric bug killer.
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