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

Any bug that comes into contact with the hand held bug zapper 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 good 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 revenge with the electric bug 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 handheld bug killer 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).

Basically, there are two types of electric 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 type, 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 been using a electronic bug killer of the rechargeable kind for five years and I am very happy with them.

These days, I spend a lot of time in northern Thailand with my wife, so you can bet your bottom dollar that my hand held bug killer gets 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 very handy. I also use my electric bug zapper to ‘sweep’ the bedroom for bugs before we retire at night, just like a secret agent.

The electric insect killer 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, sometimes failed within 6-9 months of purchase, although their ability to store a charge reduced a lot after 4-5 months.

However, the latest electronic bug killer will easily last 9-12 months and still be very pokey after nine months. My newest model even has a strong light called a headlamp incorporated into it. I’m not certain what it’s supposed to be for, but if you think that revenge is sweet, you can lure mosquitoes with it and then kill them with your electric bug killer.