If you are not yet familiar with the handheld insect 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 handheld insect killer does just what it says it does: it zaps bugs. But it does it really, very effectively.
Any insect that comes into contact with the electric insect 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.
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 hundreds of times, I know! It is very satisfying to get one’s own back with the handheld insect killer.
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 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 handheld bug 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).
Basically, there are two types of handheld 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 had a electric insect zapper of the rechargeable kind 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 electronic 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 electric insect zapper to ’sweep’ the bedroom for bugs before we go to sleep at night. Just like a CIA agent.
The handheld insect killer just gets better and better every time I buy one, which makes it difficult to give you definite specifications. The electronic bug zappers I used four or five years ago, often failed within 6-9 months of purchase, although their ability to hold a charge reduced a lot after 4-5 months.
However, the new hand held insect zapper will last 9-12 months and still be formidable 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 vengeance is sweet, you can attract mosquitoes with it and then kill them with your electronic insect killer.
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