The Best Bug Zapper You Can Buy This Summer

HuffPost and its publishing partners may receive a commission from some purchases made via links on this page. Every time my friends and I went outside, those annoying bugs were swarming thickly — until our host pulled out some curious-looking fly swatters he’d found on Amazon. A built-in purple light even helps attracts mosquitoes and other insects to the swatter, where they are quickly dispatched by the electrified stainless steel and aluminum mesh with a very satisfying zapping noise. It’s both the time and the season to buy: Amazon is offering frequent discounts on the swatters, which can be purchased singly or in sets of two or three. Amazon If you don’t feel like wielding the swatter by hand or letting your kids have fun doing it, you can also pop it into its handy weighted stand and let it work on its own indoors or outdoors as flying pests find their own way to it.