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Hanzel
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« on: October 26, 2011, 06:31:16 PM » |
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Ok, Other than Deep Woods OFF, what do you use to keep mosquitoes away ? Both you and your outdoor pets ?
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June
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« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2011, 07:03:24 PM » |
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People who study these things do say that mosquitoes are attracted to warm blooded animals by the smell of the carbon dioxide that we emit. They also say that a clove of garlic a day will mask the smell and the mosquitoes will ignore you. I don't know. Mosquitoes don't seem to find me very appetising. I can sit at a little league game without being bitten once, while all around me are eaten alive.
My cat will not go outside at all, (I think she's scared of birds) and I do add garlic to the biscuits that I bake for my dogs.
Mostly I try to practice prevention. I do not leave water around long enough for it to become a stagnant breeding ground and I do encourage bats, which are the greatest of all mosquito predators.
When Queen Victoria summered at Balmoral, where mosquitoes are a problem, they say she smoked a pipe to keep them away. I can't vouch for the truth of that either. I was never that chummy with Queen Victoria.
June.
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"The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me to be the root of all the evil that is in the world."
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Johnny-Max
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« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2011, 07:20:40 PM » |
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June, I am thinking the mosquitoes just can't bite through leather  |
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Hanzel
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« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2011, 07:42:26 PM » |
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They also say that a clove of garlic a day will mask the smell and the mosquitoes will ignore you.
Koreans claim that garlic was to keep the tigers from eating you. Garlic breathe and kimchi ... poor kitty |
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"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." www.prepperliving.comLand, water, and septic. Freedom is not Free, its priceless. |
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« Reply #4 on: October 29, 2011, 10:58:07 AM » |
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I use that swamp gator. It's all herbs. It doesn't last very long though, but it helps.
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June
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« Reply #5 on: October 29, 2011, 12:24:01 PM » |
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I am not bothered by mosquitoes, but we do have a plague around here that does bother me. I don't know what they are exactly, but they are known as "wheat bugs." They are little green monsters. So small that the window screens don't keep them out.
Every year, when the wheat ripens in the fields these little fiends appear.
Visitors to my house ask why all my windows are closed and my air conditioners are running. I explain that the wheat bugs are eating me alive.
Every eyebrow in the room shoots towards the ceiling and everyone yells, "Wheat bugs don't bite!!!!"
Well, wheat bugs may not bite anyone else on earth, but they chew the heck out of me.
There, got that off my chest.
I feel better.
June.
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"The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me to be the root of all the evil that is in the world."
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Johnny-Max
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« Reply #6 on: October 29, 2011, 01:36:34 PM » |
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You are so Sweet June, maybe they are confusing Sweet with Wheat |
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glockman1980
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The wife and I in front of Lienies!
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« Reply #7 on: November 05, 2011, 09:24:50 PM » |
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From time to time the tree of liberty needs to be refreshed with the blood of patriots and tyrants.-Thomas Jefferson
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BoatGuy
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« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2011, 09:45:31 AM » |
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Citronella candles, when they are a problem. But, I'm with June. Keep the stagnant and standing water to a minimum.
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« Reply #9 on: December 14, 2011, 05:53:11 PM » |
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For years I've been told the potassium in bananas makes us downright delicious to the little boogers.
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