Keeping mosquitoes away

[zinfamous]

Black flies are tolerable, there's usually only 1 or 2. Mosquitoes there's 394985843958 of them.

wat?

 

[Red Squirrel]

wat?

I'm talking around/on you. It's pretty rare to see more than a few and they tend to just buzz around your head a bit and go away.

As opposed to mosquitoes where if you are not using repelant there can be like 20 of you at once if you don't stay on top of it and kill them all. It can be an endless battle. I'll take flies over mosquitoes.

 

[solsa]

move to cooler, inland area with no nearby water. It's the ultimate solution.

 

[Number1]

http://www.homehardware.ca/en/rec/i...o-24/Ntk-All_EN/R-I5089888?Ntt=mosquito&Num=0

Works for us.

 

[smackababy]

Desura, where might you reside during the summer? I think you should spend a summer in the gulf coast and then you won't notice mosquitoes from anywhere else.


And, alky might be on to something. They generally leave me alone, but my diet consisted of lots of alcohol for quite awhile.

 

[zinfamous]

I'm talking around/on you. It's pretty rare to see more than a few and they tend to just buzz around your head a bit and go away.

As opposed to mosquitoes where if you are not using repelant there can be like 20 of you at once if you don't stay on top of it and kill them all. It can be an endless battle. I'll take flies over mosquitoes.

must be where you live, on some iceberg or something.

black flies swarm. And there isn't a place or community, that I'm aware of, where if they mention black flies, it is without the understanding that they are an absolute terror.

 

[zinfamous]

Desura, where might you reside during the summer? I think you should spend a summer in the gulf coast and then you won't notice mosquitoes from anywhere else.


And, alky might be on to something. They generally leave me alone, but my diet consisted of lots of alcohol for quite awhile.

I think booze and tomatoes, quite possibly garlic and other things that leave a pungent sweat can help.

They definitely zero in through CO2 output, though; so if you can manage to not breathe.... :hmm:

 

[bradley]

http://www.homehardware.ca/en/rec/i...o-24/Ntk-All_EN/R-I5089888?Ntt=mosquito&Num=0

Works for us.

Great recommendation. These propane-powered devices are the best solution: using mosquito attractants including CO2 and then trapping them.

Another such device...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEMtlxGzzZE

 

[bradley]

I've also read great things about the Bug Ring, which is a cheap DIY way of effectively ridding mosquitos.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYWE4Snglq8

 

[PliotronX]

Due to a life of heavy drinking the mosquitos leave me alone.

Unfortunately my Fiancee they devour.

Kinda reminds me of this.

 

[Spacehead]

If you're just out on the back deck try an oscillating fan . Mosquitoes don't like a wind.