Damn mosquitoes!

[ron73440]

I'm learning I have a mosquito problem in my yard. They don't bite me (my wife says they don't like the taste of Sam Adams) but my wife and kids can't hardly go outside for a minute without getting tore up. I've tried citronella, it has too small area of coverage, does anyone have a better way? Any help is apprieciated.
                                                            Ron

[70charginglizard]

Ive heard that vitamin E is good for keeping um off ya. May be an old wise tale though.

[Blown70]

TEMPO...... I think that is the name.  I have wandered around my 4 acres without an issue.

Tom

[mikepmcs]

one word DEET!
military can't be wrong, can they??? We use it here in maine and it keeps them  around you but they don't get near your skin.  I'm hoping i don't develop any reeeacti, reasctio, reactions to it.
They are bad here
I also heard skin so soft lotion works too(Avon product), i don't know about that though
v/r
Mike

[73-charger-383]

Tempo is the ticket man, spray you yard, you won't have any untill after a good rain.

[derailed]

Do you have alot of damp or swampy areas near your house, that will draw them like a magnet. I spray a small amount of deet on my clothes but wouldnt use it on my kids

[PocketThunder]

you could move to the city.  not too many here.   

[Todd Wilson]

Tempo is the ticket man, spray you yard, you won't have any untill after a good rain.

Where can you get that stuff?  What about dogs and kids in the yard?


Todd

[Afflyer]

How 'bout smakin them with your hands as they fly around you? 

Seriously- DEET works great.  Been using it in the AF for eighteen years now, and I hafffffff no problem, keek keek keek tik tik tik

Bradley

[Blown70]

Tempo is the ticket man, spray you yard, you won't have any untill after a good rain.

Where can you get that stuff?  What about dogs and kids in the yard?


Todd

Todd,

we can go to Fleet farm or most any co-op carries it.  At least here.  As far as dogs, go mine is just fine, and well ask Russ,  I have not grown any new limbs or anything.  I believe the body will break down the active chemical in it.

I say TEMPO if you want to prevent the lil bastar$%  DEET if you have to go where you cannot spray.

The tempo is wonderful

Tom

[4402tuff4u]

What actually attracts mosquitoes is the carbon dioxide we breath out. There are units in the market that kill mosquitoes without the need to spray chemicals in your yard or apply chemicals to your skin. See the link...............there are others too you can plug in. I see alot of hotels and resorts out here in LI and other places that use them and you can sit comfortably outside without being bitten. Good luck.

http://www.mosquitobugtrap.com/

[mikepmcs]

What actually attracts mosquitoes is the carbon dioxide we breath out. There are units in the market that kill mosquitoes without the need to spray chemicals in your yard or apply chemicals to your skin. See the link...............there are others too you can plug in. I see alot of hotels and resorts out here in LI and other places that use them and you can sit comfortably outside without being bitten. Good luck.

http://www.mosquitobugtrap.com/

I've heard nothing good about those traps at all.  Everything negative so far.  I'm all for Napalm myself although I really am interested in that TEMPO stuff now.

[Orange_Crush]

one word DEET!
military can't be wrong, can they???

I don't know about that...remember Agent Orange?  DDT?

Not saying they used these chemicals with knowledge they were harmful...but it turns out the WERE harmful.

I don't use DEET....scares the hell out of me.

I used to have a mosquito problem until I went on a full-on mosquito offensive. 

Every 2 or 3 days, I walk around my property and get rid of ANY and all standing water.  Mosquitos can breed in something as small as a bottle cap.  As a result of this, my mosquito problem is no longer a problem.

[doctorpimp]

Before going over to Afghanistan we had our uniforms soaked in permetherin? and were given a cream form of the stuff with Deet.
That stuff is a neurotoxin, that is supposedly not harmful to people  it wreaks havoc on waterlife though (they can't metabolize it and they die) 

[Old Moparz]

DDT was supposed to be harmless too. 

Without turning this into an anti-military/government topic, just because something is allowed, or declared to be safe, doesn't mean it is. If you do use Deet, spray your clothing & not your body. It's more of a common sense approach since it's a poison, & in most cases the less you use it, or the less your body comes in contact with it, the safer it will be. I rarely spray myself with it & would rather deal with the bug bites, but if I know I'll be in the yard for an extensive amount of time I spray my clothing. I also shower & change right after I'm done so there's even less time I'm in contact with it.

I think the marketing geniuses would love it if we all believed it was a safe & harmless repellent, & not the poisonous & toxic insecticide it is.

[mikepmcs]

I spray DEET in my cereal, I use it as a topping on my salad, and most importantly as an underarm spray and cologne.

Two words.... WEST NILE!

[doctorpimp]

 

Without going all Anti-Anti-Military 
We used that crap to keep Malaria away and it also repels ticks/fleas etc.
I also took Meflequin pills - Bad dreams etc...
But that's not here in N America.

[MassCharger73]

I spray DEET in my cereal, I use it as a topping on my salad, and most importantly as an underarm spray and cologne.

Two words.... WEST NILE!

[73dodge]

What actually attracts mosquitoes is the carbon dioxide we breath out. There are units in the market that kill mosquitoes without the need to spray chemicals in your yard or apply chemicals to your skin. See the link...............there are others too you can plug in. I see alot of hotels and resorts out here in LI and other places that use them and you can sit comfortably outside without being bitten. Good luck.

http://www.mosquitobugtrap.com/

I've heard nothing good about those traps at all.  Everything negative so far.  I'm all for Napalm myself although I really am interested in that TEMPO stuff now.

Really never heard anything negative about them, a friend of mine has one and it keeps his entire backyard mosquitoe free all summer. He used to have a problem but got one of them mosquito traps that uses some type of lure and sucks the buggers into a net and dries them out. It uses a propane tank and draws them in to a funnel like device were they cannot fly out and they just dry up in the netting. He loves it and swears by it and says a full tank of propane lasts all summers.

[Vainglory, Esq.]

Guys, DDT is safe.

http://www.21stcenturysciencetech.com/articles/Fall02/Mosquitoes.html

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/710158/posts

http://www.junkscience.com/ddtfaq.htm

[472 R/T SE]

Neighbor has a bat house.   The bats were here first, we're living amongst their trees.