Yes, I've seen those..................
Posted on 10/28/2015 12:46:26 PM PDT by Red Badger
Most larger species of mosquito are not blood suckers, but plant pollinators.................
I’m in Florida. SPF 50 is weak, we find SPF 100+ commonly................
Whatever is in SOS, it really works. I’d hate to mess with a proven solution. :)
You should be able to hit them with a pellet gun...
I was stationed at Grand Forks also, 78-82. Country boy from Texas who got religion there, found out there really was a hell.
Yeah, I noticed that my nails don’t look anything like that....
My neighbor said it felt like someone was putting a knife in his back. These are called gallinippers and feed on blood.
The unofficial state bird is the mosquito.
The official state bird is the Loon, also known as members of the democrat party.
I could be at the bottom of a swimming pool filled 10 feet deep with 100% DEET wearing a wet suit 3 inches thick covering every square inch of my epidermis and breathing through scuba gear, and I would emerge from the pool covered head to toe in mosquito bites.
Must be a complicated body chemistry thing ...
#3 dryer softener sheets
Getting the mosquitos inside the dryer is the hard part.
Thasssright..... only hateful people trying to spread panic and incite crowds against peace-loving homosexuals would say that.
Never mind that some healthcare professionals working in the Rio Grande Valley with Mexican field hands swore that the AIDS cases they were seeing were occurring among men who weren't intravenous drug users or homosexuals. They were strongly enough suspicious of mosquitoes that one person went so far as to call the little buggers "flying hypodermic syringes". Which they are. And they don't clean up with bleach after every bite.
Turned out in Africa that the major vector wasn't lubricious truck drivers but well-meaning missionary doctors who were re-using hypodermics (for economy). They thought they could clean them up and reuse them. They apparently thought wrong.
I am very allergic to DEET and also to cedar. I got a mosquito shirt from Bug Out.com.. It works great, light mesh shirt with a hood that actually can go over your head and face. sleeves are long enough to protect your hands too.
Permethrin. Take a 32 gallon trash can, fill 2/3 with warm water, add 1 cap full of Permethrin, soak cloths then let dry. Bugs die when they touch the stuff, but no harm to humans. In fact, the military has BDUs impregnated with Permethrin.
Permethrin on clothes and gear along with DEET on skin and bugs are no problemo.
Whoaa, too strong! You only need about 20%-30% for it to work like a champ. And it is a chemical.
Consumer's Reports tested the sprays etc. 15-20 years ago and reached about the same conclusions this article did, except that the Victoria's Secret perfume wasn't out then (notice the high concentration mentioned) and the Skin So Soft was much less effective than anything with DEET, and less effective than the Cutter non-DEET repellent, which worked fairly well. The non-DEET Cutter, in turn, was less effective than Cutter offerings with DEET. Deep Woods OFF was the king of the hill, then as now.
Tansy oil is an ancient and powerful abortifacient used by old crones for centuries to induce miscarriages. It's also toxic. Be careful with that stuff.
We used to have a neighborhood cat that would come to our front porch at night and sleep on our furniture. He would spray the entire porch with his scent, marking his territory. We planted some mint all around the porch in the flower beds and he hasn’t been back since...........
Yes, I've seen those..................
Try the non-DEET Cutter and the lemon-eucalyptus oil if you're allergic to DEET. I still have some non-DEET stuff that I got years ago after I saw the CR article I mentioned a couple of posts back. It worked moderately well. Then I cheated a bit and added a light dusting of DEET stuff. Those Asian Tigers are a PITA .... they'll get you at high noon in August. And the way they breed puts rabbits to shame. Four days flat, from laying to hatchout.
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