If you aren’t already acquainted with the hand held bug killer, you are really going to like it and if you have had one before, I’m sure you’ll welcome it back like an old pal! The electric bug zapper does just what it says it does: it zaps bugs. But it does it really, very well.

Any insect that comes into contact with the hand held bug zapper is fried. Smaller bugs 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 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 gratifying to get your own back with the electric insect zapper.

I don’t relish killing anything without just reason – I’m married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I’m sorry, they have to go. And the hand held insect killer does it without any more ado. No waiting and hoping they’ll fly into the ultraviolet light and then into the mesh. No, one swish of the handheld 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 hand held bug 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 been using a electronic insect zapper of the rechargeable sort for five years and I am ecstatic about them.

Now-a-days, I spend a great deal of time in northern Thailand with my wife, so you can bet your life that I give my electric bug killer 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 very handy. I also use my electronic insect killer to ‘sweep’ the bedroom for bugs before we retire at night, just like a CIA agent.

The handheld 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 electric bug zapper 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 vengeance is sweet, you can attract mosquitoes with it and then kill them with your hand held bug zapper.

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