Wednesday, August 19, 2009

Hand Held Bug Zapper

By Frank Williams

If you are not yet acquainted with the electronic 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 pal! The electric bug killer does just what it says it does: it zaps bugs. But it does it really, really effectively.

Any insect that comes into contact with the electric 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 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 gratifying to get your revenge with the hand held insect killer.

I don't like killing anything unnecessarily - I'm married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I'm sorry, they can die. And the electric insect killer dispatches them 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 zapper 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).

Basically, there are two types of electronic insect 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 type, although I suppose 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 handheld bug killer of the rechargeable sort 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 electric insect zapper a good work-out practically every night. 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 real handy. I also use my electronic insect zapper to 'sweep' the bedroom for bugs before we retire at night, just like an FBI agent.

The electric bug zapper seems to get better every time I buy one, which makes it hard to give you definite specifications. The electric bug zappers I bought four or five years ago, often failed after six to nine months of purchase, although their ability to store a charge was less after four or five months.

However, the new electronic bug killer will last 9-12 months and still be formidable after nine months. My latest one even has a powerful light called a headlamp incorporated 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 handheld insect killer.

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