Electric Fly Swatter 4000V Bug Zapper Racket Mosquito Fly Killer 1500 mAh 3 Layers Mesh with USB C Cable Stand Base for Indoor Outdoor Black 2 Pack

This is not an ideal product if you are squeamish. Details about why are included further down in this review, so skip over (after the second paragraph) if you don't want to know. This charges via USB-C, it comes with an A-to-C cable, and seems to deliver a pretty solid electrical wallop to the flies that I've used it on. I like the option to turn it either "on but you have to press the side button" or "constantly on", as I find the latter more convenient to use. I haven't tried leaving it turned-on in the little vertical stand as a "trap". Squeamish people should stop reading now. Electrical arcing noise can be heard - and sometimes little blue spark flashes seen - when an insect bridges the electrical contacts to complete the circuit and zap them in to the insect afterlife. Larger flies may require multiple zappings to render them fully deceased, and I have had a "dead" fly come back to some amount of life and make distressing buzzing sounds at the bottom of the bin I keep at my desk. So now I use a spare bit of paper to pick them up and drop them out the window instead. There is also the potential (pun intended) for a bit of burnt-hair smell as a byproduct of dumping thousands of volts through small annoying insect bodies. In some cases, I have known smaller flies to end up *BLOWN TO BITS* after their encounter with this. If you can cope with that sort of thing, this is an EXCELLENT electric fly swatter / zapper / exploder.

I've bought others before this this is far better than the others I've bought before. It does the job in one swatting fruit fies all gone in one day. Good quality and good battery life.

I am suffering from an invasion (tens every hot day) of what is probably the awkward cluster fly: they certainly are awkward, in that if I open a window to let them out they promptly fly in the other direction. Fly spray only seems to annoy them, and I don't like using a lot of it around either myself or my pets. This electronic swatter does work well, though it does take some learning to use and it isn't as completely humane as I was hoping. (N.B. I know the jury is out on whether or not flies feel pain, but it seems rash to ASSUME that something with such a highly developed sensory system cannot). Firstly, the stand isn't a charging dock: rather the swatter charges from a USB plug. This doesn't seem to matter if using it as a swatter because it still retains the first charge after a good thirty or forty uses. Secondly, it does take a little time to learn to hit the flies squarely and firmly, but it does also seem to be a straightforward matter of practice. I've generally used it in the fixed on position because I find it awkward to hold the press button down, but this doesn't matter much. It isn't what the instructions say but it works. (The instructions are in bad English, which clinched my giving four rather than five stars, but they are decipherable). With something the size of a cluster fly, it can be annoyingly difficult to get a clean kill. If the fly gets caught in the meshes, there will generally been several loud sparks of baby lightning, and the fly will start burning. I've had no problems simply tapping these dead flies out into bin or toilet. The smell of burned fly isn't nice, but I find it difficult to believe that any fly caught like that knows what hit it: it goes in seconds from living to completely dead. It feels brutal, but most genuinely humane methods of killing animals feel like that. More commonly, however, the fly will bounce off and drop to the floor in circular convulsions, from which I have seen them recover. I am not sure what is going on here. I have been able to pick most of these flies up and either squash them firmly in a piece of kitchen paper, or drop them back onto the fly racket for a further, more immediately effective shock. I have occasionally not been able to find a dropped fly, and sometimes the racket has gone off, but the fly has been apparently unharmed or merely slower: it is impossible to guess the injury level in such cases. With so many flies, it is difficult to keep track of the one hit. However, for the most part, I'd still reckon it is probably a lot better than flyspray or traps on the humaneness scale in general, as it is much quicker when it does work, and flyspray has its own share of oblique hits. Traps are generally very slow. And I have gradually become better at hitting them hard, though there is still a lot of room for improvement. I think it probably is a lot more effective for getting rid of this type of fly than spray, though it may depend on a lot of variables, and, as I say, cluster flies seem annoyingly indifferent to the spray I'm used to using. I haven't had a shock from the swatter yet: it seems to be well designed and well guarded. I feel it is necessary to be careful of the fire risk, however. If it can set a fly burning within a few seconds, it might set light to paper etc., in much the same way. The burning flies themselves don't seem to be a fire risk, though I was initially a bit concerned: they char when actually stuck in the racket with a current running, but I've picked them up in my hands straight after without problems. There isn't much volume of fly to really get hot enough to cause anything else to catch fire, and there is not much fuel in a fly and a lot of liquid to damp it out, once the current is removed. However, the water in the toilet does seem the most secure place for a recently charred fly! Also, if you have nervous pets (or children) this may not be the best thing to use around them because of the loud, sudden noise. I can't imagine using it as a passive insect killer because it would not really be passive, between the fireworks and the smell. But perhaps these are less of an issue when using it on things like mosquitoes, which are much smaller. (My current cluster fly invasion consists of flies which are, in general, a little smaller than a greenbottle blowfly). If you're happy with the fact that effective use takes some learning, are not bothered by fireworks, and are not too squeamish about handling/squashing flies when necessary, then I recommend it from every point of view.

We absolutely recommend these, they do a good job and are reasonably priced. At our location on holiday, going out around sun down without heavy deet application would definitely result in a large number of painful bites. Over 2 nights now we have used these on the terrace at twilight and been bold enough not to use deet... And we are bite free! You don't really even need to wave them about much. Most of the time we leave them on with the blue light to attract the mossies, and they seem quite capable of clearing an area. We would supplement them with the use of deet (especially, say ankles) but otherwise you probably don't need anything else. The "bats" are adequately made, silent in normal operation, although each mossie dispatched creates a flash of light and quite a load crack. Sleeping with that going on would be challenging, but if you can stop the supply of mossies by closing doors and windows, you should be able to pre clear a bedroom quite quickly - certainly within an hour. Only minor criticism is that we needed to keep them on the charger all the time because they drain their batteries fairly quickly - but in our case I also have to consider we now use them almost all the time. To sum up, buy them if you don't want to be bitten anymore because they work.

Works well , makes my little dog jump so put in another room.

I it’s a amazing item, but it’s not working perfectly and I don’t think so. He’s gonna catch a fly.

Works well and great fun chasing flys

Parfait.plus aucune mouchette ni moustique. Ça fonctionne très bien.

No effective

Muy buenas.

Funziona! Da quando la mia guerra alle centinaia di zanzare Koreane è iniziata (le ho contate, il record è di 130 zanzare circa in una notte aspirate con il folletto) devo dire che questo strumento mi ha aiutato non poco. Ci sono due modalità, la prima richede di premere un tasto per attivare la griglia elettica, la seconda la attiva automaticamente e accende una sorta di lucina blu (dubito effettivamente serva a qualcosa). Una cosa è certa, una volta che sta cosa tocca una zanzara quella muore e subito. Si può anche usare toccando il muro il ché uccide la zanzara ma non sporca il muro (a differenza dello spiaccicarla... a saperlo prima mi risparmiavo una tinteggiata di casa). Certo, chiaramente può essere pericolosa essendo appunto elettica, ma basta porci un minimo di attenzione. Altro piccolo problema è la puzza di bruciato emessa dai cadaveri delle zanzare, però fidatevi, una volta che lo associate all'odore della vendettà sarà meglio della pasta al forno. (PS: Se vi è mai capitato di bruciarvi un pelo con l'accendi fiamma è lo stesso odore). Si ricarica con USB-C, cavetto in dotazione senza caricatore e con una piccola base in plastica. C'è anche un coso che segna la batteria, per ora dopo averla ricaricata è duranta un giorno e una quarantina di zanzare uccise, la batteria sembra essere ancora piena. I 22€ meglio spesi della mia vita. Altamente consigliata. Piccolo dettaglio: se vi capita che continua a fare scintille per un po' dopo che avete beccato una zanzara è perché l'insetto morto cade tra i vari livelli della griglia chiudendo il circuito. Lasciatela fare fino a quando non finisce). Credo anche che abbia avuto un effetto psicologico contro le zanzare, adesso si mi aggrediscono meno.

It does the job really good.