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Researchers compare 'natural' mosquito repellents to DEET
phys.org ^ | 10/28/2015 | by Josh Lancette &Provided by: Entomological Society of America

Posted on 10/28/2015 12:46:26 PM PDT by Red Badger

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To: driftdiver

Never heard of them! Good lord, they sound like a Hollywood horror creation!.................


61 posted on 10/28/2015 1:52:05 PM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: minnesota_bound

You have to put some honey in there first.


62 posted on 10/28/2015 1:53:44 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: Red Badger

Where I live there are only feral cats who leave everyone alone - deep forests.


63 posted on 10/28/2015 1:54:39 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: minnesota_bound

If you’re from Minnesota, the skeeters will take the dryer with them.


64 posted on 10/28/2015 1:55:36 PM PDT by SkyDancer ("Nobody Said I Was Perfect But Yet Here I Am")
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To: lentulusgracchus

Go to BugOut.com and check out the shirts. They also come with pants.

Mosquitoes have not been very bad at our house this year.


65 posted on 10/28/2015 1:56:00 PM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: SkyDancer

I kinda miss the old Tom cat. At least he kept the squirrel population down...............


66 posted on 10/28/2015 1:56:03 PM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: Red Badger

Wow. I am in Oklahoma and SPF 20 is usually overkill for me...


67 posted on 10/28/2015 2:00:32 PM PDT by LaRueLaDue
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To: LaRueLaDue

Here in Florida, people from up north really don’t know how powerful our sunlight is, until they look like a lobster on a dinner plate....................


68 posted on 10/28/2015 2:07:11 PM PDT by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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To: doorgunner69

“Sure seems like something could be ingested to make you less palatable to the damn things.”

I take dry garlic tablets to prevent chigger (Arachnid American) bites. If you take it in enough concentration to be able to smell it on your skin, you will have few if any bites.

my guess is that would work for mosquitoes also. I no longer live in a climate where we have enough to bother with repellent.

We used the DEET back when I lived and duck hunted the Gulf coast.


69 posted on 10/28/2015 2:10:35 PM PDT by Clay Moore (Keep JRandomFreeper in you prayers)
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To: Red Badger

Ditto!


70 posted on 10/28/2015 2:16:20 PM PDT by punknpuss
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To: lentulusgracchus

Go to Wisemen Trading and Supply for the mosquito shirts. They have exactly what I have and they work great!


71 posted on 10/28/2015 2:19:36 PM PDT by Ditter (God Bless Texas!)
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To: doorgunner69
Have your wife put a few drops on your neck, B4 you go outside.


72 posted on 10/28/2015 2:31:06 PM PDT by Daffynition (*Gun control is a tool to make innocents pay the price for the guilty* W.LaPierre)
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To: doorgunner69
Sure seems like something could be ingested to make you less palatable to the damn things.

My wife got a B-12 shot several years back. Worked wonders for her for quite a while.

73 posted on 10/28/2015 2:52:55 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (I got nothin'.)
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To: Red Badger

I use Vick’s Vapor Rub. I rub it on my neck and other exposed areas. It always seems to work for me and the jar is small.


74 posted on 10/28/2015 2:55:52 PM PDT by Dutch Boy
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To: Ditter
Hmm, someone mentioned "malware" and my reply to you just got blitzed. I hit post and got a blank comp window and a red-letter warning, "you must enter a post bla bla", so my post was intercepted and deleted before it got to FR's server.

Thanks for the pointer and the link, I'll check them out.

Our neighborhood has had a spraying program the last two years and the mosquitoes have been less numerous. The county only sprays when infected mosquitoes are trapped; I think they sprayed only once over in nearby Shepherd Forest.

The cost of our private program is putting our c.c. in Butt Hurt Land, miniature version of Obamaland, and the president of the c.c. isn't standing for reelection. More fun.

Moms with kids favored the spraying; moms with babies were on the other side. </off gross generalizations>

75 posted on 10/28/2015 3:04:31 PM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("If America was a house , the Left would root for the termites." - Greg Gutierrez)
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To: OldMissileer

Yeah, I heard that one before. Wouldn’t be funny if it wasn’t half true. They do build them big up there.


76 posted on 10/28/2015 3:04:47 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (ObaMao: Fake America, Fake Messiah, Fake Black man. How many fakes can you fit into one Zer0?)
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To: mountainlion

DDT would be great. I wish they would let me use it.

I went camping in Maine a few years back with a bunch of guys, it was during mosquito season, it was pouring rain, and somehow, someway we decided that was the time to take the advice of someone who thought that Skin So Soft was a valid alternative to regular mosquito spray.

Not only did we get eaten alive, we smelled like French whores, and every single thing that we cooked and ate tasted like Skin So Soft.

I can barely even smell that stuff now without feeling nauseous!


77 posted on 10/28/2015 3:33:14 PM PDT by rlmorel ("National success by the Democratic Party equals irretrievable ruin." Ulysses S. Grant)
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To: driftdiver

Not my hand....

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I hope not — girl nails.


78 posted on 10/28/2015 4:06:54 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
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To: doorgunner69

Supposedly it’s your blood type.


79 posted on 10/28/2015 4:13:00 PM PDT by Eagles6 ( Valley Forge Redux. If not now, when? If not here, where? If not us then who?)
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To: doorgunner69

Way back in the day, they would say to ingest some sulfur which would repel both skitters and ticks.

Don’t remember if it worked.


80 posted on 10/28/2015 5:04:35 PM PDT by X-spurt (CRUZ missile - armed and ready.)
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