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If you aren’t already familiar with the hand held insect zapper, 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 handheld bug killer does just what it says: it zaps bugs. But it does it really, very well.

Any insect that comes into contact with the electronic bug killer is fried. Smaller insects 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.

How many times have these flying bugs taken the edge off an otherwise lovely 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 electronic bug zapper.

I don’t relish killing anything unnecessarily - I’m married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I’m sorry, they have to go. And the handheld bug 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 handheld 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).

There are two basic kinds of electric 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 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 had a handheld insect killer 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 bottom dollar that I give my handheld insect zapper 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 handheld bug killer to ’sweep’ the bedroom for bugs before we retire at night, just like an FBI agent.

The hand held bug killer just seems to improve every time I buy one, which makes it difficult 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 handheld insect killer will last 9-12 months and still be very pokey 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 lure mosquitoes with it and then kill them with your electronic bug killer.

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