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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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Old 07-21-2013, 05:32 PM
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I'll remember that. We just received an infestation.
Diesel works as well.
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Old 07-21-2013, 05:37 PM
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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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I was at Sebring all weekend.....
Yes the moskitos are crazy right now lol
Me too! I didn't get bit though.
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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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Garlic! Eat lottsa garlic! Mosquitos HATE garlic!




Unless, of course, they're Italian mosquitos...in which case...you're dinner.




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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Thanks for the tip...
Works for me! Lemme know if it works for you.
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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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Garlic! Eat lottsa garlic! Mosquitos HATE garlic!




Unless, of course, they're Italian mosquitos...in which case...you're dinner.
Works on vampires too...
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Me too! I didn't get bit though.
What were you running?
I was there with the red 944 with the white/blue hood....
It was his first race, they started him dead last out of 40 and he ended up 8th overall in the enduro......
I got bit up worse the end of Sunday when we were packing up....
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How could purple martins be seen as aggravating?
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I see this pic as the purposeful destruction of every bird and fish within 100+ miles.

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