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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!


2 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.)
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To: Carriage Hill

I love garlic but mosquitos love me. It probably makes me taste better.


5 posted on 12/07/2022 1:56:12 PM PST by Varda
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To: Carriage Hill

“Eat Garlic — roasted or raw — and they’ll leave you alone.”

As will virtually every other living thing :).


8 posted on 12/07/2022 2:04:25 PM PST by Magic Fingers (Political correctness mutates in order to remain virulent.)
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To: Carriage Hill

Garlic doesn’t work for me, no matter how much I eat. I prefer DEET, 100% if I can find it.


14 posted on 12/07/2022 2:14:56 PM PST by HartleyMBaldwin
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To: Carriage Hill; Varda

There are studies that garlic will repel ticks, but this study says not mosquitos.


20 posted on 12/07/2022 2:23:06 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: Carriage Hill

I have always found garlic to be good repellent.

For mosquitoes and people.

A whole clove cooked in soup works great. It flavors the soup and makes the whole clove easy to eat.


28 posted on 12/07/2022 2:41:43 PM PST by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! R)
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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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