The electric bug killer is the best way of ridding your immediate vicinity of insects, especially the flying ones like mosquitoes. The indoor bug killer evaporates any insect from a mosquito to a gnat instantly on contact with a pleasingly loud, electrical ‘zap’!
However, this is not to say that the hand held bug zapper cannot be used outdoors, as long as it is not raining. It should be treated like any other high voltage electrical equipment. Keep the electric insect zapper dry and definitely do not use it while you are standing in water!
Models vary greatly, but there are basically only two types of indoor bug zapper: the battery operated bug zapper and the rechargeable electric bug killer. Both are equally effective at killing insects and employ the same principle.
The electric bug zapper resembles a ‘junior’ tennis racquet, but with three layers of ’strings’, which are in fact wires. The innermost grid of wires becomes live at the touch of a button, while the other two networks, one on either side, are only earths.
When a bug is caught between the wires of the electric bug killer, it creates a short, which evaporates it instantaneously with a loud crack. The indoor insect killer will kill other insects too, but they tend to burn rather than explode.
I have been using the rechargeable type for about five years and am extremely happy with the electric bug zapper. In fact, the electric bug killer has come a long way in the last few years. A fully charged electric insect killer is powerful enough to last for a few hundred swipes and will hold it’s charge, if unused, for weeks without any noticeable discharge.
The rechargeable battery unit will put up with serious use for the best part of a year, although its capability to hold a charge for several weeks gradually reduces after six or seven months.
The most recent indoor bug killer I’ve had has a main on/off switch, a light that comes on when it is activated (the brightness of this light also gives an indication of the battery’s strength) and an LED that comes on when it is plugged in on recharge.
The instructions say that it should be (re)charged for sixteen hours. I usually put it on charge over night once or twice every week or two, although the hand held insect zapper shows a marked increase in performance with only a couple of hours charging.
The latest model I’ve had also comes with a powerful light called a ‘headlamp’. I have found this very handy when out in the garden, but I’m unsure whether it’s meant to attract the mosquitoes in the dark so that you can kill them if you’re feeling bored or just vindictive, rather like an Anglerfish.
I’ve used the headlamp on my electric bug killer for that reason as well, but the beam uses a lot of battery power. All in all, the hand held insect zapper is a big asset at any outdoor event. The electric bug zapper is useful to ‘clean out’ your bedroom before retiring; it’s unbeatable for evening mosquitoes and it will clear a lunch table of wasps too.
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