Electronic Bug Zapper

If you are not yet familiar with the hand held bug killer, you are really going to love it and if you have had one before, I bet you’ll welcome it back like an old, long-lost pal! The electronic insect killer does just what it says it does: it zaps bugs. But it does it really, really effectively.

Any bug that comes into contact with the electric insect zapper is fried. Smaller insects like gnats and mosquitoes are vaporized with a very pleasing 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 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 dozens and dozens of times, I know! It is very satisfying to get your own back with the electric insect zapper.

I don’t like killing things without just reason – I’m married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I’m sorry, they have to go. And the electric bug zapper dispatches them 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 electric insect killer 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 kinds of electronic 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 bug zapper of the rechargeable kind 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 handheld insect killer 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 electric bug killer to ‘sweep’ the bedroom for bugs before we go to sleep at night, just like a CIA agent.

The electronic bug zapper 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 hold a charge reduced a lot after four or five months.

However, the new electronic insect killer will last 9-12 months and still be very pokey after nine months. My latest model 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 bug zapper.

Owen Jones, the writer of this piece writes on several topics, but is currently concerned with the Aedes mosquito. If you would like to know more or check out some fantastic offers, please go to our web site at Indoor Bug Zapper.