unconventional skeeter repellent?

Runs With Scissors

Runs With Scissors

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Well, it's that time of year again, buy a few gallons of deet, a couple cases of shotgun shells, here come the skeeters....

I just got an email swearing up and down that spraying listerine around your area does a good job for repelling the vile little beasts. Any of y'all ever try it?

So far I've just stayed with lots of deet, skeeter magnets (the real ones are great, IMHO, the clones are a joke) citronella and such.

I tried orange peels once when I was a kid...was lucky to survive...

any other good ideas?
 
Last year I tried eating a clove of fresh Garlic everyday.. Kept skeeters and ticks far away... Just about everything else too LOL lucky for me my wife loves Garlic.
 
You know for some reason, I haven't had much of a problem with ticks, and I'm aching to attribute that to the fact that I take an oderless garlic pill everyday. It hasn't helped with mosquitoes though, so maybe I have just been lucky with the ticks...
 
Runs With Scissors said:
Well, it's that time of year again, buy a few gallons of deet, a couple cases of shotgun shells, here come the skeeters....

I just got an email swearing up and down that spraying listerine around your area does a good job for repelling the vile little beasts. Any of y'all ever try it?

So far I've just stayed with lots of deet, skeeter magnets (the real ones are great, IMHO, the clones are a joke) citronella and such.

I tried orange peels once when I was a kid...was lucky to survive...

any other good ideas?
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I tried it last summer and it work great, I am planning on using it again this year.

cya
jimi
 
I normally don't have much of a problem with mosquitoes. Especially if my wife is near because they are feeding off of her. We saw a similar e-mail last year and she tried the Listerine a couple of times. She said it worked well but needed to be reapplied every half hour or so.
 
Skeeta wear man!

My wife and I got turned on to these by the kind folks living in Alaska where skeeters are really bad and in fact worse than anywhere I have ever visited. We could not step out of the car without being swarmed up there.

http://www.skeeta.com/

STR
 
Vitaimin B1 take twice a day. You'll fluro orange piss till you stop taking it but it certainly gets them off me, and not as many annoy the wife.
Have used garlic but got a major problem getting natural garlic here the last couple years. Not cold enough to grow our own and the supermarket stuff is all from China tasteless.
Carl
 
Where I live much of the forest floors are covered in Vanilla leaf ( Achlys triphylla ) this time of year onwards, if you pick their leaves and let them dry they smell of vanilla, rub them on your skin and ya keep the mozzies at bay !!!
 
I'd spray the Listerine around.

Not sure if it works to repel the skeeter vampires, but at least the ones that do bite you will have minty fresh breath! :D
 
I just buy something with permethrin in it and treat my clothes. Permanone works well...did it when I went to Kenya
 
It turns out that avon skin-so-soft works really well.

I've had mixed results with vanilla and neatsfoot oil.
 
I get mauled by skeets all the time. If there is one skeeter in a room of 100 people, she will come right to me. I have had little success with anything other than the 99% deet stuff, which I can't seem to even find anymore. I hear it was banned in these parts, leaving us only with the mild 20% - 30% deet aerosol sprays that seemingly need to be reapplied every few dang seconds in order to be effective. Long clothing comes dusk is my only true defense. I have been wondering about hot pepper sauces/juices, if they might deter skeeters.
 
RescueRiley said:
Last year I tried eating a clove of fresh Garlic everyday.. Kept skeeters and ticks far away... Just about everything else too LOL lucky for me my wife loves Garlic.
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Plus one on both loving garlic and the wife loving it. :thumbup: Garlic is great and good for you. You can keep even more bugs out of your yard by just growing it around your yard like flowers...a lot of bugs hate it.

Also you can burn dried conk like incense around your camp...works sort of mosquito coils. Sometimes when the winds are in your favor you can lay them overlapping each other and they will light in succession. So far the ones off of hardwoods seem to do better...don't ask me I got it from an article by Chris Janowski a long time ago and have done it ever since. I figured if anybody knew of things that help keep mosquitos at bay it would be a survival teacher from Alaska. Also you can burn some pyrethrins in a smuge fire in your tent and leave it for a few and when you come back any mosquitos, gnats, no-see-ums, or whatever other flying pest in your tent will be dead. Sprinkling it around you shelter helps with ground bugs too. They don't carry it at our closest farmers co-op anymore.
 
Ahhh the skeeter, SC's state bird. I recall reading somewhere that shark liver oil keeps them away. It probably keeps most things away, for that matter. Other fish liver oils may work. Not sure. Of course swatting a skeeter's easier than killing a shark.
 
I hadn't heard of b1, but I've used b12 to good effect. maybe just a small dose B complex? can't hurt, and the B vitamins have some good effects.
 
Don't remind me that they are coming again. I use muskol spray, and buy several cans when they are on sale and still available, as the stuff sells fast. Went through 4 cans of the stuff during last years long wet cold summer. As a second defence I go through several packages of pic coils. If there is going to be any sanity while using the deck or doing maintenance on the pickup, then pic coils are a must.
 
dougo83 said:
I just buy something with permethrin in it and treat my clothes. Permanone works well...did it when I went to Kenya
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DUDE!! NO SKIN CONTACT WITH PERMETHRIN !!!! I have 3 different pesticide licenses, I work in the industry and this is a big health no-no.
Read the label...... I use that stuff to kill bedbugs, cockroach's you name it. I have had .05% mixed permethrin soak a shoe and it burned the top of my foot, scarred it for 2 months and itched like crazy.
 
Thanks for all the suggestions. Lots of good stuff I'll get to try soon. They'll be terrible here at the house soon, and just about impossible to live with at work. (Prudhoe Bay)

I just remembered another one from the internet....Bounce dryer sheets. supposedly hang 'em around from the back of your shirt, sleeves, etc.

Haven't tried it yet though...

Oh well, I'll have my chance soon.
 
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