Electronic Bug Zapper
Thursday, July 29th, 2010If you are not yet familiar with the electronic 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 electric insect killer does just what it says it does: it zaps bugs. But it does it really, very well.
Any bug that comes into contact with the hand held insect killer 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 enjoyable 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 your own back with the electronic insect zapper.
I don’t like killing anything unnecessarily – I’m married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I’m sorry, they have to go. And the electric insect killer does it 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 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).
There are two basic types of hand held 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 type, although I guess you could use rechargeable batteries too. (I bet they would be more expensive that the bug zapper in the first place). Anyway, I have had a hand held bug killer of the rechargeable kind for five years and I am very happy with them.
These days, I spend a lot of time in northern Thailand with my wife, so you can bet your life that my handheld bug killer gets 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 country, where we live, so it comes in very handy. I also use my handheld insect killer to ‘sweep’ the bedroom for bugs before we retire at night, just like a secret agent.
The electric bug killer 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, 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 electronic 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 zap them with your electronic bug killer.
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