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To: Red_Devil 232

I was just out in the garden and had to run for cover after about 30 seconds. It was a skeeter ambush.


3 posted on 06/25/2010 5:15:46 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: cripplecreek
For skeeters and noseeums, I've switched to this stuff:

I like to fish tidal swamps, and this stuff is as good as any other repellent, it's not all slimey and oily, doesn't feel gross and smells decent. I can use it for a lunchbreak fishing trip, and not gross out my coworkers when I gat back into the office.

9 posted on 06/25/2010 5:23:41 AM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
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To: cripplecreek

I hate those skeeters!


19 posted on 06/25/2010 5:51:19 AM PDT by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: cripplecreek

There are may products which repel mosquitoes on humans. A new product by the makers of OFF spray. It is a device you wear on a belt loop and the aroma of OFF is spread around by a fan. Going to try it. Also found a yellow bracelet in the AmeriMark.com catalog which has an aroma of citronella, which repels mosquitoes too. There is a + 2 inches or more of water in our reserviors and some periodic downpours. One of the advantages of less rain is fewer mosquitoes.


27 posted on 06/25/2010 6:41:29 AM PDT by tob2 (I would rather have a nuclear power plant in my backyard than Gitmo detainees.)
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To: cripplecreek
We have deer flies here. I have to drive up to the street to get the mail.

I just ordered some sticky patches for my cap that should help cut down on the population of the little vampires.

41 posted on 06/25/2010 8:21:42 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: cripplecreek

The chipmunks got through the chicken wire fence and ate all the leaves off the squash plants I just put in. The plants seem to be alive. I sprayed them with Safer Soap hoping it will not taste good. Anyone know how to prevent chipmunks from eating the garden?


202 posted on 06/28/2010 9:52:13 AM PDT by MtnClimber (Osama and Obama both hate freedom and have friends that bombed the Pentagon)
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