The indoor insect killer is the best way of clearing the space around you of insects, especially the flying ones such as mosquitoes. The electric bug zapper evaporates any insect from a mosquito to a gnat instantaneously on contact with a pleasingly loud, electrical ‘zap’!
However, this is not to say that the electric 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 indoor insect zapper dry and definitely do not use it while you are standing in the pool!
Models do vary a lot, but there are really only two kinds of indoor bug zapper: the battery operated bug killer and the rechargeable electric bug killer. Both are equally effective at killing insects and work on the same principle.
The indoor bug zapper looks like a ‘junior’ tennis racquet, but with three sets of ‘strings’, which are in fact wires. The central grid of wires becomes live at the push of a button while the other two grids, one on either side, are earths.
When a bug is trapped between the wires of the electric bug killer, it creates a short, which evaporates it instantly with a loud crack and a flash. The indoor insect killer will zap other bugs too, but they just burn instead of explode.
I have had the rechargeable sort for about five years and am extremely happy with the electric insect killer. In fact, the electric insect killer has come a long way in the last few years. A fully charged hand held bug 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 slowly reduces after six or seven months.
The latest indoor bug zapper I’ve had has a main on/off switch, a light that shines 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 on recharge.
The instructions suggest that it should be (re)charged for sixteen hours. I usually put mine on charge over night once or twice every week or two, although the indoor bug killer shows a marked increase in performance with only a couple of hours charging.
The latest model I’ve seen also comes with a powerful beam called a ‘headlamp’. I have found this very useful when out in the garden, but I’m not sure whether it’s meant to attract the flies in the dark so that you can zap them if you’re bored. You know, like an anglerfish.
I’ve used the headlamp on my electric insect zapper for that reason too, but the headlamp uses a lot of battery power. All in all, the hand held bug zapper is a big asset to any outdoor event. The hand held insect killer is useful for ‘clearing’ your bedroom before retiring; it’s unbeatable for killing evening mosquitoes and it will eradicate wasps at a lunch table as well.
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