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Mosquitoes are NOT repelled by vitamins or other oral supplements you might take
Study Finds ^
| Matan Shelomi
| 11/7
Posted on 12/07/2022 1:49:29 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Eat Garlic — roasted or raw — and they’ll leave you alone. It’s worked for me for the past 35yrs, at my Nursery/Garden Center/Landscape Contracting Operation. I’ve not been bee/wasp stung or mosquito bitten.
My theory: if you smell like garlic/onions, we’re friends. If you smell like Listerine or toothpaste or body wash, be gone vassal!
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posted on
12/07/2022 1:54:21 PM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: nickcarraway
No matter how many people are around, I always get destroyed by mosquitoes.
If I went to Africa, I would die.
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posted on
12/07/2022 1:54:22 PM PST
by
EEGator
To: nickcarraway
Will vitamin B1 repel other parasites like the IRS?
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posted on
12/07/2022 1:54:43 PM PST
by
MtnClimber
(For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
To: Carriage Hill
I love garlic but mosquitos love me. It probably makes me taste better.
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posted on
12/07/2022 1:56:12 PM PST
by
Varda
To: MtnClimber
Lead repels some parasites.
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posted on
12/07/2022 1:57:51 PM PST
by
NorthMountain
(... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
To: Varda
Mosquitoes are attracted primarily by our expelling CO2, so quit breathing or wearing any lotions, perfumes, or other scents.
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posted on
12/07/2022 2:03:46 PM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Carriage Hill
“Eat Garlic — roasted or raw — and they’ll leave you alone.”
As will virtually every other living thing :).
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posted on
12/07/2022 2:04:25 PM PST
by
Magic Fingers
(Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
To: nickcarraway
How about when I don’t use deodorant?
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posted on
12/07/2022 2:04:45 PM PST
by
GingisK
To: Magic Fingers
That's one way of making sure that everyone else stays at least six feet away from you, when those restrictions are in place.
To: Carriage Hill
I smell like dog and cats.
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posted on
12/07/2022 2:11:59 PM PST
by
Varda
To: Magic Fingers
Hence...
My theory: if you smell like garlic/onions, we’re friends. If you smell like Listerine or toothpaste or body wash, be gone vassal!
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posted on
12/07/2022 2:13:36 PM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Varda
I used to, when I had cats, but the garlic still did its job.
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posted on
12/07/2022 2:14:21 PM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Carriage Hill
Garlic doesn’t work for me, no matter how much I eat. I prefer DEET, 100% if I can find it.
To: EEGator
lemon eucalyptus oil, rub on body not covered by clothes
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posted on
12/07/2022 2:18:01 PM PST
by
rolling_stone
(cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war )
To: Carriage Hill
People used to say garlic repelled fleas but it wasn’t any better at that then it is at repelling mosquitos.
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posted on
12/07/2022 2:18:36 PM PST
by
Varda
To: nickcarraway
I have colitis. Ever since I was put on meds to control it, I have yet to be bitten
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posted on
12/07/2022 2:19:22 PM PST
by
roving
( Pronouns- libs/suk)
To: HartleyMBaldwin
They tried to ban DEET — N,N-diethyl-meta-toluamide — in 1991 and 1992, but the chem cos intervened. NYS did ban it, with over 30% product content, since high DEET concentrations were linked to severe skin reactions and neurological problems including seizures.
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posted on
12/07/2022 2:20:51 PM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Varda
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posted on
12/07/2022 2:21:59 PM PST
by
Carriage Hill
(A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
To: Carriage Hill; Varda
There are studies that garlic will repel ticks, but this study says not mosquitos.
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