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The best way of getting rid of mosquitoes is Listerine, the original medicinal type. The Dollar Store-type works, too. I was at a deck party awhile back, and the bugs were having a ball biting everyone. A man at the party sprayed the lawn and deck floor with Listerine, and the little demons disappeared. The next year I filled a 4-ounce spray bottle and used it around my chair whenever I saw mosquitoes. And voila! That worked as well. It worked at a picnic where we sprayed the area around the food table, the children's swing area, and the standing water nearby. During the summer, I don't leave home without it.....Pass it on.
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I tried this on my deck and around all of my doors. It works -- in fact, it killed them instantly. I bought my bottle from Target and it cost me $1.89. It really doesn't take much, and it is a big bottle, too; so it is not as expensive to use as the can of spray you buy that doesn't last 30 minutes. So, try this, please. It will last a couple of days. Don't spray directly on a wood door (like your front door), but spray around the frame. Spray around the window frames, and even inside the dog house if you have one.
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I am willing to give it a try. Those darned things are Wisconsin's State Bird, and to make things worse we are having a very wet spring. They will be out in swarms soon!
The best thing I've found for use while out hunting is a Shannon's Bug Tamer suit. It gives me great pleasure to be sitting on a stump waiting for the sun to come up and listening to the little buggers buzzing around trying to find something to eat. Knowing all the while that what they want is me, and they can't get to me.
I guess it doesn't take much to keep me entertained.
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we have some sort of tall rag weed here in florida....
that you can rub on your hunting cloths to keep
most of the flying critters away...Fairly strong smell
can use it as a cover scent too!
Game does not mind it all....
I have used Avon Skin so Soft on a Quarter Horse and it did work as well as some equine fly sprays. I will give Listerine a go must be healthier than continually smokin' my pipe, which I do when the little Bu**ers start bitin'.
Whatever you do always give 100%........... unless you are donating blood.
tried skin so soft but alaskan mosquitos totally ignored it; deet works, but is toxic if over used. native people here claim that eating seal and seal oil will keep them off you, and it will certainly keep most other people away too.
Several years ago I read in Soldier of Fortune magazine that supplementing with large doses of vitamin B-1, aka Thiamine, before a military operation, will repel those little bastards. jd45
tried thiamine also, works a little bit, but still will not stop our local mosquitos; they say a lot of this depends on your blood type, how moist your skin is, skin temperature,etc. some people are not bother as much as others.....me, they leave others and come straight to me.
hfcable wrote:tried thiamine also, works a little bit, but still will not stop our local mosquitos; they say a lot of this depends on your blood type, how moist your skin is, skin temperature,etc. some people are not bother as much as others.....me, they leave others and come straight to me.
There are all kinds of factors, some having to do with the kind of mosquito. Down here we've more kinds of skeeters than you can shake a stick at - thank God they're not as bad as what I've read of up in AK. They don't bother me much usually. Not since the time I was hunting over a waterhole way back when. The next day my hands and face looked like I'd been sunburned from all the bites. That time it was a tiny insect called an "asa dura" (hard wing) which infested that area. There were even bites on top of the bites that covered the bites under the bites. So now skeeters don't bother me much. They occasionally bite me, like the one that sent me to the hospital with dengue fever years ago, but rarely do I notice a bite. And they usually chase my wife instead of me anyway.
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I've found that applying a thin layer of human dung over all exposed skin works pretty well. Even Alaskan mosquitos are unwilling to stick their noses through that! But it's a little hard to explain to the Game Warden...
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So now skeeters don't bother me much. They occasionally bite me, like the one that sent me to the hospital with dengue fever years ago, but rarely do I notice a bite. And they usually chase my wife instead of me anyway.