The hand held insect zapper is the best way of ridding the space around you of insects, especially the flying ones like mosquitoes. The indoor insect zapper evaporates any insect from a mosquito to a gnat instantaneously on contact with a nice, loud, electrical ‘crack’!
However, this is not to say that the hand held bug killer cannot be operated outside, so long as it is not raining. It should be handled just like any other high voltage electrical equipment. Keep the electric bug zapper dry and please do not use it when you are standing in water!
Models do vary greatly, but there are basically only two kinds of indoor insect killer: the battery operated bug zapper and the rechargeable electric insect zapper. Both models are equally effective at zapping bugs and work on the same methods.
The hand held insect killer looks like a ‘kids’ tennis racket, but with three sets of ’strings’, which are in fact wires. The innermost grid of wires becomes live at the push of a button while the other two networks, one on either side, are earths.
When a bug is caught between the wires of the electric insect killer, it creates a short, which vaporizes it instantaneously with a loud crack. The electric insect killer will kill other insects too, but they tend to burn rather than explode.
I have been using the rechargeable kind for about five years and am extremely satisfied with the hand held insect zapper. In fact, the electric bug zapper has come a long way over the last few years. A fully charged indoor bug zapper is powerful enough to last for a few hundred swipes and will hold it’s charge, if unused, for weeks without any significant discharge.
The rechargeable battery pack will take serious use for the best part of a year, although its capability to hold a charge for a few weeks gradually reduces after six or seven months.
The most recent indoor insect zapper I’ve used has a main on/off switch, a light that comes on when it is activated (the brightness of this light also indicates the battery’s strength) and a light that comes on when it is plugged in for recharge.
The instructions on the wrapper suggest that it should be (re)charged for about sixteen hours. I usually put mine on charge over night once or twice every week or two, although the indoor bug zapper shows a marked increase in performance after only a couple of hours recharging.
The latest version I’ve had also comes with a powerful beam called a ‘headlamp’. I have found this very handy when out in the garden, but I’m unsure whether it’s supposed to lure the flies in the dark so that you can zap them if you’re feeling bored or just vindictive, rather like an Anglerfish.
I’ve used the headlamp on my electric insect killer for that reason too, but the light uses a lot of battery power. All in all, the hand held bug killer is a big asset at any outdoor event. The hand held 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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