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Electronic Bug Zapper

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

Any bug that is touched by the wiring of the electric bug zapper is electrocuted. Smaller bugs like midges and mosquitoes are disintegrated with a very pleasing flash and a crack. Larger insect, like house flies and wasps are killed, but don’t explode like the smaller ones.

Think about it, 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 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 gratifying to get one’s revenge with the electric bug killer.

I don’t relish killing things without reason - I’m married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I’m sorry, they have to go. 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 sweep of the electric insect 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 - honest, I wasn’t being sexist).

There are two basic sorts of handheld insect 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 kind, 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 had a handheld insect zapper of the rechargeable sort for five years and I am very happy with 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 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 killer to ’sweep’ the bedroom for bugs before we go to sleep at night, just like an FBI 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, sometimes failed after six to nine months of purchase, although their ability to hold a charge reduced a lot after four or five months.

However, the new electric bug zapper 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 zap them with your handheld bug zapper.

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