I don’t know whether you have ever used a handheld, indoor bug zapper, but I think that they are wonderful. I?m talking about the handheld sort that looks like a child’s plastic, toy tennis racquet. They come in two basic sorts. I rather the rechargeable bug zapper, for the reason that batteries end up up costing more than the indoor bug zapper itself, although you could always buy rechargeable batteries, but then they are costly too.

My wife and I like to spend time in the garden. We meet friends there, dine there and in general loaf about outside, as do most folks about here, when they are not working. What’s more, it?s much cooler outside than inside. A comfortable chair, a few snacks, a cool drink and a book or a companion and life does not get much better. In fact, it’s idyllic.

That is until about six or seven o’clock when the first squadron of mosquitoes have judged that the sun’s rays have lost enough strength that they will not evaporate and they come out looking for blood. Some evenings are worse than others, of course. Normally, the mosquitoes are pretty bearable, especially seeing as I have discovered the indoor bug zapper. (I don’t know why it is called an ‘indoor bug zapper’, it is equally as effective outdoors as in).

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The electric bug zapper is the best way of ridding your immediate vicinity of insects, especially the flying ones such as mosquitoes. The electric bug zapper evaporates any insect from a mosquito to a gnat instantly on contact with a nice, loud, electrical ‘zap’!

However, this is not to say that the indoor bug zapper cannot be operated outdoors, as long as it is not too wet. It should be treated like any other high voltage electrical equipment. Keep the electric bug killer dry and please do not use it while you are standing in water!

Models do vary greatly, but there are really only two kinds of indoor bug killer: the battery operated bug killer and the rechargeable electric bug zapper. Both are equally effective at zapping insects and work on the same principle.

The electric insect zapper looks like a ‘junior’ tennis racket, but with three layers of ‘strings’, which are in fact wires. The innermost network of wires becomes electrified at the touch of a button, while the other two networks, one on either side, are harmless earths.

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