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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

Not true. In the Marines we ate sulfur pills. It comes out in your sweat. Mosquitoes stay far away. But everytime you break wind, it smells like the gates of hell have opened up.


41 posted on 12/07/2022 4:31:02 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: nickcarraway

I use ThermaCell devices, they work great for me.


42 posted on 12/07/2022 4:41:35 PM PST by algore
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Can confirm that as I’ve been using them for about two years with excellent success.


43 posted on 12/07/2022 5:09:59 PM PST by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: Carriage Hill

Lots of beer attracts them...


44 posted on 12/07/2022 5:29:30 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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If I’d had “lots of beer”, I probably wouldn’t care. Heh.


45 posted on 12/07/2022 5:33:30 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: nickcarraway
Eat something with Tabasco on it.
46 posted on 12/07/2022 5:41:16 PM PST by AF_Blue (My decision-making skills closely resemble those of a squirrel when crossing a road)
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But hanging scented dryer softener sheets around your neck; use two clips to place the sheets about chest high. The really scented ones work great.


47 posted on 12/07/2022 6:23:00 PM PST by SkyDancer (I Walk In The Rain So Nobody Can See My Tears)
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It’s safe to say there is probably no other chemical on earth as thoroughly studied as DEET. If there was a problem with it, they would have found it by now. It was invented in 1946, something like that.

Nothing else comes even close in terms of repelling Mosquitos, and it also lasts several hours. West Nile, Malaria, and probably other diseases linked to Mosquitos are far more debilitating in any case. It does damage plastics, and nylon. But I’m not made of plastic, so I’m good.


48 posted on 12/08/2022 4:35:31 AM PST by Freedom4US
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Personally, I like DDT.


49 posted on 12/08/2022 7:01:19 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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