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it works! no mosquitoes!
Wife read a snippet somewhere about using Vicks Vap-o-rub as an anti mosquito agent.
Just tested it and it works good... her instructions were to smear on ankles and wrists... I put a schmear on my shirt collar behind my neck and a little on each elbow... We only had baby strength so I imagine with the regular stuff it would work even better. Normally 2 or 3 bites in 10 min, just went out for 20 and no bites. Thinking for outdoor porch/deck/etc use you could use one of those old fashioned perfume warmers over a tea light and a small metal tin of the stuff...
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I'll remember that. We just received an infestation.
Diesel works as well.
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Thanks for the tip.
It's mosquito central right now here in Florida....
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Here, too. I walked out the back door yesterday and inhaled a few of 'em on my first breath. Gak
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I was at Sebring all weekend.....
Yes the moskitos are crazy right now lol
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150 gallons of malathion works pretty good, also.
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we have too many purple martins. Aggravating but no mosquitos
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I'll stick with 28% DEET thanks.
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Ill stay up here in the dry mountains. Not many skeeters here
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Read a paper once where drinking beer actually attracted skeeters to you - they key on the CO2 coming off your skin. Drinking increases that I guess.
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Garlic! Eat lottsa garlic! Mosquitos HATE garlic!
Unless, of course, they're Italian mosquitos...in which case...you're dinner. 
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We were just up in Jasper, Alberta. MFing mosquitos were pretty bad. A healthy dose of DEET, and we were fine.
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Thanks for the tip. In a while I'm off on a tent holiday to mosquito land and I was going to have a teaspoon of vegemite each day for two weeks leading up to the trip. BUT I can enjoy the pleasures of scoffing down garlic without suffering the local vegemite/marmite/sheep jokes. . |
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I will. It's a while away (winter here now
but GF and two dogs and I are going on a NZ south island staying in the tent, paddleboarding and the dogs chasing rabbits, and me trying to catch my first trout dinner since 1972  so I am very keen to try an anti mosquito solution.
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How could purple martins be seen as aggravating?
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