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

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    smoke

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Maybe you can put a dead bloody animal next to yourself in hope some of them will be distracted by it? Anyone tried it?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      seems like a good way to attract other things you wouldn't want to deal with too

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Hope you have no bears or scavengers near you lol.

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    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

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      sounds like a lot of work for something that might make a marginal difference

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Sounds like a moron spouting his moronic thoughts.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Does the orange peel trick work for you Anons?

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Just bought pic related, also gonna get a head net and only wear long sleeves when out in the thick woods

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      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.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      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

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >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?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >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

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            thank you anon, i was considering one as well for home, but we eat out of our river; could've been really bad!

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I love these but yeah don't use them near water.

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    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

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    pic related is absolutely brutal, as soon as I lit one up there is no mosquitoes anymore

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      where do you buy that? actual indonesian websites or do azn grocers in your country carry the stuff?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Not the same brand but all mosquito coils are the same. Just get them from Walmart or Amazon

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        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. 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.

        Based MC enjoyer

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      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.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Bumpo, I want to raise awareness of the toxicity of these thermacells

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I know DEET is bad for you, but I only use it a couple of times a year, and that shit really works.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      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 frick it was strong

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        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.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          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

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/rI9Yni6.jpg

      How do you deal with them? I noticed that anti mosquito spray doesn't work when there's a lot of them

      DEET
      /thread

      Simple as. DEET isn't harmful, just be careful around the eyes.

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >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.

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    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

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      what kind of smell?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        tar
        like burning wet wood and getting your clothes stained with the smoke kind of smell

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Just go somewhere not a shithole? Usually invasive snd hit shitholes have mosquitos, try higher elevation

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >I live in a city and don't out: the post

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    DEET
    /thread

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Bugnet soaked in permethrin

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    be with someone that attracts them more than you

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I rub my skin with fresh juniper leaves and voila - no ticks, no mosquitoes, no horseflies etc.

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    cover yourself
    bug spray
    run from them

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous
    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >absolutely moronic design

      Okay Karen, make sure to get mega boosted and wear an entire box of masks on the trail too.

      >'karen'
      >leftist brainwashed moron

      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.

      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 moron

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    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

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >99% of municipalities spray against them like every other week
      could you elaborate on this for someone who's europoor?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        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

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Chemtrails are real?

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I just stay inside and play rocket league. Been playing for five years, can barely hit the ball.

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Picaridin.

    Deet is terrible and doesn’t work.

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    get used to them, turd.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >gets aids of hepatitis because of the other hikers getting bit by mosquitos

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        the only diseases you get from mosquitoes are found in high population centers in africa and asia.
        mosquitoes literally digest aids.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          That you know of

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Okay Karen, make sure to get mega boosted and wear an entire box of masks on the trail too.

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    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.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      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.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        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

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I use DOOT

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    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

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >DEET free
      it's a gamble

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I just embrace them, I usually don't feel their bites anyways

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    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)

  32. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    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.

  33. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    long pants and long sleeves.

    its that easy.

  34. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    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

  35. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    i just get drunk at night so i can sleep

  36. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    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.

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