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

Any insect that comes into contact with the handheld insect killer is fried. Smaller insects like gnats and mosquitoes are vaporized with a very pleasing flash and a crack. Larger bug, like house flies and wasps die, but don’t explode like the smaller ones.

Just 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 dozens and dozens of times, I know! It is very satisfying to get one’s own back with the hand held bug zapper.

I don’t like killing anything unnecessarily – I’m married to a Buddhist- but mosquitoes? I’m sorry, they have to go. And the handheld insect zapper does it without any more ado. 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 electronic insect 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 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 been using a electronic insect killer of the rechargeable kind for five years and I am ecstatic about 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 electric insect 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 very handy. I also use my handheld insect killer to ’sweep’ the bedroom for bugs before we go to sleep at night, just like an FBI agent.

The electronic bug zapper 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, 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 latest electronic bug killer will easily last 9-12 months and still be formidable after nine months. My newest model even has a strong torch called a headlamp built into it. I’m not sure what it’s supposed to be for, but if you think that vengeance is sweet, you can lure mosquitoes with it and then kill them with your hand held bug killer.

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