Hand Held Bug Zapper

If you are not yet acquainted with the electronic insect zapper, you are really going to like it and if you have used one before, I bet you’ll welcome it back like an old, long-lost pal! The handheld bug zapper does just what it says it does: it zaps bugs. But it does it really, really well.

Any bug that comes into contact with the electronic bug killer is fried. Smaller bugs like gnats and mosquitoes are vaporized with a very satisfying flash and a crack. Larger insect, 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 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 one’s own back with the electronic bug killer.

I don’t like killing anything without just reason – I’m married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I’m sorry, they can die. And the electronic 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 swish of the electric insect zapper 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).

There are two basic sorts of electric bug 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 type, 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 electronic bug zapper of the rechargeable kind for five years and I am ecstatic about them.

Nowadays, I spend a lot of time in Thailand with my wife, so you can bet your bottom dollar that I give my electric insect killer 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 country, where we live. So it comes in very handy. I also use my electronic bug killer to ’sweep’ the bedroom for bugs before we go to sleep at night. Just like a CIA agent.

The electric bug 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, sometimes failed within six to nine months of purchase, although their ability to hold a charge reduced a lot after four or five months.

However, the latest hand held insect zapper will easily last 9-12 months and still be very pokey after nine months. My newest model even has a strong torch called a headlamp built into it. I’m not sure what it’s supposed to be for, but if you think that revenge is sweet, you can attract mosquitoes with it and then zap them with your hand held insect killer.