To: Red Badger
I will never understand why biting bugs like skeeters and smaller ankle biters prefer me to the wife, but it has been true for decades.
I laugh when she finally gets nailed to share the misery.
Sure seems like something could be ingested to make you less palatable to the damn things.
To: doorgunner69
It’s the opposite for me and my wife. She gets all the skeeters and they leave me alone...................
10 posted on
10/28/2015 12:52:55 PM PDT by
Red Badger
(READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
To: doorgunner69
Sure seems like something could be ingested to make you less palatable to the damn things. Garlic works for me. Most of the time. But that's an uncontrolled, unscientific study with a sample size of "one".
Which makes it better science than Global Warming ...
14 posted on
10/28/2015 12:56:52 PM PDT by
NorthMountain
("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
To: doorgunner69
23 posted on
10/28/2015 1:05:43 PM PDT by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: doorgunner69
Sure seems like something could be ingested to make you less palatable to the damn things. curry?
24 posted on
10/28/2015 1:05:44 PM PDT by
bankwalker
(In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.)
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)
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)
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'.)
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?)
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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