How do you deal with them? I noticed that anti mosquito spray doesn't work when there's a lot of them
How do you deal with them? I noticed that anti mosquito spray doesn't work when there's a lot of them
How do you deal with them? I noticed that anti mosquito spray doesn't work when there's a lot of them
smoke
Maybe you can put a dead bloody animal next to yourself in hope some of them will be distracted by it? Anyone tried it?
seems like a good way to attract other things you wouldn't want to deal with too
Hope you have no bears or scavengers near you lol.
Not if your using that hippy ass picaradin or eucalyptus oil or some other crap that won’t give you cancer. Also permethrin is good.
I shower with pine tar soap, encourage bats to roost by building some bat boxes for the backyard, cover the inlet of my rain water tank with fly mesh and drop a chlorine tablet into the garden tank that can't be covered, clean my gutters regularly, and have a couple of cheap UV traps from aliexpress placed around the house
sounds like a lot of work for something that might make a marginal difference
Sounds like a retard spouting his retarded thoughts.
Does the orange peel trick work for you Anons?
Just bought pic related, also gonna get a head net and only wear long sleeves when out in the thick woods
ThermaCells work, though you have to factor in wind direction and strength.
My buddy bought one several years back and I thought it was just a gadget but we were sitting out in my backyard and were watching mosquitos heading right for us, only for them to do a 180* when they hit the “force field” from the ThermaCell.
I’ve used one turkey and deer hunting, clipping it to the back of my pack or chair so the (very faint) smoke drifts over my head and upper body.
these things are so insanely bad for the environment that several outdoor gear sellers have pulled them from the shelves
like one of those refills is enough to kill every fish in a small bond bad
>these things are so insanely bad for the environment
Really? Of course I dispose of the scent pads in the trash but you got a link?
>https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/E-9-2021-003270_EN.html
this is all I could muster
I was considering one of those things myself, but it just seemed too good to be true, so I looked into it
I'm paranoid enough to stay the fug away from those things, since I tend to hike and camp in areas where drinking water from any river or lake is safe so I don't want to do anything to endanger that
and also the pollinating insect part, bees are under enough pressure as it is
thank you anon, i was considering one as well for home, but we eat out of our river; could've been really bad!
I love these but yeah don't use them near water.
marigold oil applied to the skin
also planting marigolds around your property will passively repel them from the area
https://www.mosquitoreviews.com/mosquito-repellents/marigold
pic related is absolutely brutal, as soon as I lit one up there is no mosquitoes anymore
where do you buy that? actual indonesian websites or do azn grocers in your country carry the stuff?
Not the same brand but all mosquito coils are the same. Just get them from Walmart or Amazon
Yeah, sadly only local marketplace websites and physical mom and pop stores sell them, mini markets or supermarkets don't sell them. They are the only brand that works in literal seconds, all other brands are shit
Based MC enjoyer
Based. Mosquito coils and DEET are the only things that work. Coils work amazingly well, my neighbors are from Trinidad and they can atest, they are all anyone buys down there.
Bumpo, I want to raise awareness of the toxicity of these thermacells
I know DEET is bad for you, but I only use it a couple of times a year, and that shit really works.
I saw a mini rechargeable zapper today, seemed like a good idea, pic related
How had? We used the max strength one we could find, holy fuck it was strong
Are these rechargable ones any good? My patio has one of those actual big ones you plug into the mains. Every few minutes you get a couple of zaps and it seems to work alright.
I haven’t tried it yet, but I could get a cheap one, gut it and run a bigger li-ion or lipo over night near tent, and enjoy mozzie free area
Simple as. DEET isn't harmful, just be careful around the eyes.
>How do you deal with them?
i don't do anything at all.
if they are really bad, i put on a long sleeve shirt.
usually a fire is good enough to keep them away.
if all that fails then just go inside.
got me some nordic summer tar stuff because I saw someone talking about it here
haven't got the chance to try it yet because the bugs are still asleep
apparently some old swedish remedy that works
but man it stinks, I have it stored inside 2 ziplock bags and it still reeks trough them
what kind of smell?
tar
like burning wet wood and getting your clothes stained with the smoke kind of smell
Just go somewhere not a shithole? Usually invasive snd hit shitholes have mosquitos, try higher elevation
>I live in a city and don't out: the post
I live in the Rockies. Once you get above a certain elevation there's this plant. Some kind of horsemint. Looks like regular sweet mint but pointier leaves and smells a bit more like oregano. Rub that stuff on me and I haven't had a problem in years. Mosquitoes seem to hate it.
DEET
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Bugnet soaked in permethrin
be with someone that attracts them more than you
I rub my skin with fresh juniper leaves and voila - no ticks, no mosquitoes, no horseflies etc.
I use citronella and patchouli here in the southern Appalachians and I am completely bug free and smell like a candle. I also fit in with all the filthy hippies from Asheville.
cover yourself
bug spray
run from them
>absolutely retarded design
>'karen'
>leftist brainwashed retard
nah, if I am gardening around sunset I am moving but they still get around
doing laps at camp after walking all day would suck
get a friend who smokes tobacco
some of those posts are not related to your response, so yes you are a spamming retard
stop being a little girl and learn to live with bugs, its not that big of a deal
besides, 99% of municipalities spray against them like every other week
>99% of municipalities spray against them like every other week
could you elaborate on this for someone who's europoor?
Trucks drive down the street spraying insecticide into the air. In some more extreme cases (generally in the Deep South, which is a subtropical area) aircraft are used.
https://www.cdc.gov/zika/pdfs/truckmounted-factsheet.pdf
Chemtrails are real?
I just stay inside and play rocket league. Been playing for five years, can barely hit the ball.
Picaridin.
Deet is terrible and doesn’t work.
get used to them, turd.
>gets aids of hepatitis because of the other hikers getting bit by mosquitos
the only diseases you get from mosquitoes are found in high population centers in africa and asia.
mosquitoes literally digest aids.
That you know of
Okay Karen, make sure to get mega boosted and wear an entire box of masks on the trail too.
Bros. I’m going to be getting a job where I’ll be working outside with a crew of guys for a week or two at a time in the mountains. I’m not an outdoorsy guy but needed the money for school. what shit so I buy for mosquitos that I can rely on during an extended work period that just works? I’ll be doing manual labor so it needs to be practical.
light sport long sleeve trainer hoodie, light cap, mosquito head net to put around your face under the hood, that will hang down from the cap brim.
mosquitoes reproduce and live near standing water, and live off plant juice, so if it's not especially a rainy or green area you may not need anything.
I’ll be doing wild land firefighting work. So I need to keep cool also. I’m not sure yet what they let us wear on the job, depending on what they allow I may buy some stuff. Replant wise is there anything you can suggest? Maybe I should concentrate more on tick repellant. This will be on the west coast
I use DOOT
Does this shit work? I see it in almost every store around here but I dont want to waste money. I bought some repel with 40% deet and it's work great. With a head net the bugs are a non issue
>DEET free
it's a gamble
I just embrace them, I usually don't feel their bites anyways
Buy and release dragonflies into your area. They will slaughter the local bug population. They have a 97% hunting success rate which is literally the best in the world.
the new pi stuff works. it apparently works better than deet, and there havent been any side effects discovered (so far)
if you want to get rid of them, you can either bring along one of hose electric bug zapper rackets, get a bug suit (see through tight mesh that you wear over your clothes) or you can get a dragonfly hat (a hat with a fake dragonflies dangling off of rods attached to the hat)
Get a few large pyrex bowls, a submersible blender, a few cheap silicone spatulas, cheap silicone soap molds, some lye, and some neem oil Then go to the grocer and get some olive, coconut, and castor oil. If you want it to be nicer, order a stick of pure shea butter, and a small bit of cedarwood and tea tree oil extracts.
soapcalc.net
Fiddle around with this until you have a recipe that works for you. You want 10% superfat and 10-15% neem oil.
Chill the proper amount of water, and carefully add the lye without getting it on you. While you rechill the water back to the right temp, gently warm your oils except the neem (warm that separately) to the right temp and put them in the big pyrex bowl. Slowly add the lye solution and blend it like mad. Once it's saponified, add the neem oil and your scent oils (cedar/tto) to it and continue blending like crazy. Once it's done, pour it into the molds and put the molds out in your garage.
Wait 3 months before using it. When you do, the mosquitos will avoid you like the plague. It works on ticks too.
Do not wash vagoos with this or it's near instant vaginosis. You've been warned. Also, if you exceed 15% neem it can be irritating, as well as making you smell like you crawled out of a hobo's rotting colon.
Do not reuse anything used in soap making for food. Ever.
long pants and long sleeves.
its that easy.
work outside in canada, bugs can be a real problem
long sleeved, button up work shirts can be quite light and cool, but they are woven tight enough to make it hard for mosquitoes
when its very bad i wear very light tig welding gloves and a mesh bug hat
smudging is when you add aromatic herbs to coals to produce a lot of aromatic smoke, this works well too
before i go into my tent or my house i hit myself with a shirt or whatever cloth to get all the mosquitoes off. about ten or 20 feet from the door. then i ru inside and shut the door quickly
when horseflies are really bad a lot of people used to put 2 pennies in a sandwich bag with a little water and hang them up around camp. swore they kept the flies away. no more pennies in canada anymore
i just get drunk at night so i can sleep
go camping with someone who has sweet blood. they'll be the sacrifice for the rest of the group.
another old trick is to just stay in motion. it takes a while for mosquitos to catch up. you don't even need to move fast, just slowly circle around your camp at a snails pace and you can completely avoid them for hours.