Customer Reviews

Lentek BV01 Rechargeable Cordless Handheld Bug Vacuum

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I bought this for my elderly mother, who lives right at the edge of a tiny town, and has a parade of bugs across the living room all summer.

The unit is a bit heavy for a person with declining hand strength, and the handle is a bit too thick. It would be better if it had some type of grip where you put your hand through an opening.

It works OK for small and medium size bugs on the floor or wall. Mother has lots of cellar spiders, and it's hard to capture them, because they build webs where the wall meets the ceiling. The webs also get into the unit. She also had an attack of ants, but again, they tend to make their trail in hard to get at places. They also invaded the kitchen counter, but it's awkward to use the unit at that height.

The big problem is that it does not kill larger bugs. I left the unit with her for a week, and she picked up a black widow. When I opened the unit, the spider was alive and well, and had made an egg sac.

I tried it on some large bugs that invade my home each summer - so-called "water bugs," but I think they're a member of the cockroach family. It picks them up fine, but does not kill them.

So analyze your needs before you buy. If most of your bugs are on the floor, and you don't care if the unit kills them or not, it should be OK. Also consider your hand strength and ability to grip the fairly fat, tapered handle.

I hate spiders. If I see one inside, I can't let it leave it my sight without killing it. People tell me to catch them and let them go outside. That makes no sense to me - they always come back.

I didn't have much hope for this but thought I'd give it a try. So far I've encountered 3 spiders over the past 2 months - 2 fairly large spiders, and one small one. Each time the bug vacuum easily sucked the spiders up and - this is the best part - electrocuted them. Two of the spiders were sucked in and dead within about 2 seconds. The other kind of hung around on the wall for a few seconds with no way to get away, then violently flew into the vacuum and was shocked to death. If you turn the vacuum on and off a few quick times after the bug's been sucked in (and likely already dead), you'll see little sparks shoot off the bug's carcass. It's easy to use and there's no splatters left on the wall.

Don't listen to anyone who tells you spiders are our friends. That's what they want us to think. They all need to die, and this is the perfect weapon.

I'm doing my part - what about you?

I bought this bug vacuum with low expectations; it is even worse than I expected. We had hoped to use it for the occasional stink bug. It is bulky with a massive charger. Its vacuum power is best described as a gentle breeze. The best way to get the bug in the device is to kill the bug using another device, pick up the bug and drop it in the bug vacuum hole. I have not written an online product review on Amazon before; this product is so bad I felt compelled to warn others!

I have a lot of low-voltage lights on our house. Many colors and different wattages, which I dearly love. Unfortunately, the spiders also love to build webs on the siding because flying insects are attracted to the lights. One night I used my Panasonic vacuum (which I love) and got over 30! The motor chews them up and spits the pieces into the disposable bag--I've never had one survive! Nice jolly subject, right? Often, I have to hold the vacuum in one hand (20 lbs.) while using the hose with attachment in the other. This gives me over 3 ft. of reach and the suction is so great that the insect is "gone" within 1" of the brush. OK, the Lentek is rechargeable, doesn't have a power cord and is lite (albeit unwieldly). After charging for a day the unit would pick up a 1/8" spider but nothing larger. After a minute of operation the suction is down by about half and you won't get anything then. Yes, I'm back to the Panasonic and the Lentek?---the "round file"!!

This unusually warm winter didn't seem to have the necessary bite to kill of many of the box elder bugs that start to swarm in great numbers around fall. This led to *many* of them invading my home and staining some of my trim with their, ahem, droppings. I got tired of squishing them, wasting a tissue for every 2 or three of the buggers and decided to drop the cash on this vacuum.

It's impressively effective. Turn the thing on, place the cup over the bug, and give the bug a nudge to dislodge it. Let it run a few seconds to zap the critter and then simply dump the recently deceased insect into the trash. Sometimes a toothpick is necessary to dislodge the corpse, but usually some vigorous shaking will be sufficient.

Don't expect to hear much "zapping", although there have been a couple of cases where I have heard some electrical snaps. There will often be a bit of a burning odor as the insect is being shocked. This might be the least pleasant of the side-effects.

The device is simple to use, effective, and is a nice, non-toxic alternative to pesticides or messy smashing. It will not replace standard chemical methods if you have a serious infestation and it won't work well on very small insects such as sugar ants, but it's great for the bugs you might encounter throughout the day.

My wife is phobic about bugs. I thought this was the perfect gift. There are not alot of bugs around in the winter, but fortunately a spider showed up for his demise. I anxiously went for the "bug vaccum". I positioned it perfectly above the spider, I think it was comotose, because it did not move. I held the cover over the spider but the suction was too weak to actually suck it up the tube. I had to take off the cup and directly put the hose over the spider. Finally, the spider was sucked up the tube. Sorry, don't buy if you are a bug hunter.....Waste of $50.00

This product just doesn't work... It will suck a bug in, maybe, but it doesn't kill anything- and after a couple of minutes it won't have the power to suck any more bugs in. At best you can use it to go after the occasional fly or moth that's just out of hands reach, but don't expect you're going to do anything else with this.

My condolences to "The Birthday Girl" for receiving such a practical (if un-romantic) gift for her birthday but the Lentek Bug Vacuum is one of those rare products that does exactly what it says it does and does it well.

My wife hates bugs and spiders and her preferred disposal method in the past has been the old reliable "smack them with her slipper". This method usually works but has an unfortunate tendency to leave footprints on the walls and ceilings and the occasional shriek of fear as a fast one gets away.

Not any more now that we have a Lentek Rechargeable Bug Vacuum! It may be big, it may be loud but man! does this thing suck up the bugs! Then it zaps them with a mini bug zapper, all safely enclosed in a plastic tube.

My wife was skeptical when it first arrived and made fun of my new toy but after seeing it in operation she's now a believer.

There are some minor downsides... The "flexible tip" isn't quite as flexible as they say but it almost always works. It's big. It's noisy when operating. The "remains" have an annoying tendency to get their many legs entrapped in the wire mesh of the zapper, requiring some banging and shakeing to extract.

But it DOES work! And when it sucks in the bugs there's a satisfying little "zzzt, zzzt, zzzt" sound and blue glow as your victim is resoundly zapped into the after-life.

This product does not work, I tried this unit on small spiders (less than an 1/8" in size)and they just crouched down. The unit could not suck them up, and I'm really trying to get spiders double their size.

I DO NOT like spiders. Our house has more small-sized spiders than I'm comfortable with. When I researched a way to control them, I thought the Bug Vacuum was the perfect solution. Wrong.

I followed the directions exactly and this product did NOT perform as it suggests. It has an attachment that you place over the intruder, but the vacuum power is not strong enough to effectively and quickly suck it up. So, I took the attachment off... the vacuum was a bit stronger, but still not efficient enough.

To be fair, I tried it on multiple sized spiders (it did manage to kill a few), but the last straw was when I tried to capture a spider smaller than a pea... it barely (slowly) sucked it up, but then couldn't electrocute it and the spider continually kept trying to crawl back out the tube. And this vacuum's lazy attempt was all while the battery was fully charged.

Unfortunately, this bug vacuum doesn't do the job... it only makes a squeamish spider hater having to fight the spider to get the job done. I wanted this to work so badly, but a shoe is much more effective and faster, too!

Don't waste your money. I'm returning mine.