If you are not yet acquainted with the handheld bug killer, you are really going to like it and if you have had one before, I bet you’ll welcome it back like an old, long-lost friend! The electronic insect zapper does just what it says it does: it zaps bugs. But it does it really, really 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 satisfying flash and a crack. Larger bug, like house flies and wasps die, but don’t explode like the smaller ones.
Think about it, how many times have these flying insects 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 gratifying to get one’s revenge with the handheld insect killer.
I don’t relish killing anything unnecessarily – I’m married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I’m sorry, they can die. And the handheld bug killer does it without any messing about. No waiting and hoping they’ll fly into the ultraviolet light and then into the mesh. No, one sweep of the handheld 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 – honest, I wasn’t being sexist).
There are two basic sorts of electronic insect 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 electric insect killer of the rechargeable kind for five years and I am ecstatic about them.
Now-a-days, I spend a lot of time in northern Thailand with my wife, so you can bet your life that I give my electronic bug zapper a good work-out almost 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 retire at night, just like an FBI agent.
The electronic bug zapper seems to improve every time I buy one, which makes it difficult to give you definite specifications. The electric bug zappers I bought four or five years ago, sometimes failed within six to nine months of purchase, although their ability to hold a charge was less after four or five months.
However, the latest handheld bug killer will easily last 9-12 months and still be formidable after nine months. My newest one even has a strong light called a headlamp built into it. I’m not certain what it’s supposed to be for, but if you think that revenge is sweet, you can lure mosquitoes with it and then kill them with your electronic bug killer.
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