Electric Bug Zapper

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By Frank Williams

If you aren't already familiar with the hand held bug killer, 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 does: it zaps bugs. But it does it really, really effectively.

Any bug that is touched by the wiring of the handheld insect zapper is electrocuted. Smaller insects like midges and mosquitoes are vaporized with a very satisfying flash and a crack. Larger bug, like house flies and wasps are killed, but don't explode like the smaller ones.

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 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 satisfying to get one's own back with the handheld insect killer.

I don't relish killing anything unnecessarily - I'm married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I'm sorry, they have to go. And the electronic insect zapper 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 hand held 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 sorts of electric bug zapper. 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 had a handheld bug zapper 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 bug zapper a good work-out almost 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 bug zapper to 'sweep' the bedroom for bugs before we go to sleep at night, just like an FBI agent.

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

However, the new electric insect zapper will last 9-12 months and still be formidable after nine months. My latest one even has a powerful torch 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 hand held insect killer.

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