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

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

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 satisfying to get your own back with the hand held bug zapper.

I don’t like killing things unnecessarily – I’m married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I’m sorry, they can die. And the handheld insect zapper dispatches them 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 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 – honest, I wasn’t being sexist).

Basically, there are two types of hand held insect 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 kind, although I guess 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 electronic insect killer of the rechargeable kind for five years and I am very happy with them.

Nowadays, I spend a lot of time in Thailand with my wife, so you can bet your bottom dollar that I give my electric bug zapper 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 rural areas, where we live. So it comes in very 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 hand held insect zapper just gets better and better every time I buy one, which makes it difficult to give you definite specifications. The electronic bug zappers I used four or five years ago, often failed within 6-9 months of purchase, although their ability to hold a charge reduced a lot after 4-5 months.

However, the new electronic bug zapper will last 9-12 months and still be very pokey after nine months. My latest one even has a powerful torch 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 lure mosquitoes with it and then kill them with your hand held insect killer.

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Originally posted 2010-02-23 10:24:18. Republished by Old Post Promoter