Mosquito Prevention?

**forreachingme** · 06-01-2009, 03:40 PM

In Europe many use Geranium flowers in front of windows, euromosquitos are kept away with these! \

Out of lemongrass there should be a few plants or flower keeping those away...

The Canal of Panama was a mosquito catastrophy, the french were working hard over there but many got ill from Malaria...
Once ill they were placed in hospital, and in hospital they placed some beautifull plant, what was the favourite breeding stuff for the malaria mozzies, bad went worse...
The americans took project over and found out that this plant was the mozzie problem, the canal was then once achieved by lessing casualties of malaria...

**AnthonyR1** · 06-01-2009, 03:42 PM

Originally Posted by good2bhappy

they hop up from floor to floor

mozzies in klongtoey use the lift

**baldrick** · 06-01-2009, 03:44 PM

fans are good as the fcukers can't fly in the breeze very well and if they get sucked into the fan they are fcuked

screens are the best deterrent , though you have to train people to close them after they have opened them

**AnthonyR1** · 06-01-2009, 04:19 PM

Originally Posted by baldrick

fans are good as the fcukers can't fly in the breeze very well and if they get sucked into the fan they are fcuked

screens are the best deterrent , though you have to train people to close them after they have opened them

ya fans for sure. i'll tell you though...the plug in zappers don't do shit! they attract everything but mozzies, including geckos after moths

messy

**Jet Gorgon** · 06-01-2009, 04:35 PM

Take lots of showers, eat no cheese, plant lemongrass (as noted above) and use eucalyptus spray and a skitter net.

**AnthonyR1** · 06-01-2009, 04:53 PM

^ no cheese? is that due to smell? damn no cheese????

**Jet Gorgon** · 06-01-2009, 05:00 PM

^yep, sweat smell.

**Travelmate** · 06-01-2009, 05:04 PM

AntR1 you will like Jet. You see she is Canadian.

As for Mozzies sleep at night with a fan on. Does the trick for me.

**good2bhappy** · 06-01-2009, 05:17 PM

Originally Posted by AnthonyR1

mozzies in klongtoey use the lift

lazy bastards!

**AnthonyR1** · 06-01-2009, 05:18 PM

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

^yep, sweat smell.

hmmm....i'll take your word for it jet. at this point i'll try anything.....unless someone says stay off the beer

**November Rain** · 06-01-2009, 05:53 PM

Sorry, Jettie. Don't believe the no cheese. I love cheese, but I never get bitten. I seriously think that sweet breath attracts them (I don't eat sweet things). Maybe if you eat a lot of sweet things your blood tastes sweeter? Everyone I know that gets bitten has a sweet tooth.

**nedwalk** · 06-01-2009, 06:09 PM

i have given this trick before, whence you are awakened by said bastard mossie, simpley lean over and remove the sheet from your sleeping bed partners ankle, carefully do not awaken them, it gives you time to cover yourself with sheet and get back to sleep whilst said bastard mossies gorge themselves on aforementioned fetlock and with a bit of luck your dozeing partner will not awaken till morning with a swollen ankle and you will have had a blissfull uninterupted kip

**Missismiggins** · 06-01-2009, 07:20 PM

You need to look for a particular variety of Lemon Grass, I think the Thais call it Thakrai Homme, it's not the one you use for cooking, different, not as thick nor as tall and is a bit reddish in colour. That will put them off, ordinary Lemongrass is useless. You could of course burn those "poisonous" spiral rings they sell, can give you one hell of a headache!

**AnthonyR1** · 06-01-2009, 09:51 PM

Originally Posted by Missismiggins

You need to look for a particular variety of Lemon Grass, I think the Thais call it Thakrai Homme, it's not the one you use for cooking, different, not as thick nor as tall and is a bit reddish in colour. That will put them off, ordinary Lemongrass is useless. You could of course burn those "poisonous" spiral rings they sell, can give you one hell of a headache!

getting complicated. can't someone just come here and kill the cnuts for me :-(

**TizMe** · 06-01-2009, 10:11 PM

I have a mate that has one of these: Mosquito Magnet® | Home

It does a great job. No problem sitting out in the yard after dark, which was unthinkable before he put it in.

**AnthonyR1** · 07-01-2009, 12:38 AM

^ i don't know dude? carbon dioxide emitting device. seems drastic.

**TizMe** · 07-01-2009, 10:47 PM

"Desperate times call for desperate measures."

Do you want to get eaten by mossies or not?

**kingwilly** · 07-01-2009, 10:49 PM

erm, you could do a Dalton and move to the arctic circle. no mozzies there.

**Eliminator** · 08-01-2009, 08:03 AM

Wrong KW: Arctic Refuge: Caribou FAQs

Do mosquitoes play a role in caribou behavior?
Mosquitoes do play an important role in caribou behavior. Mosquitoes appear in early summer, just as the caribou are shedding their long winter hair. The insects can easily draw blood from the caribou at this time, and seriously torment the animals. The problem is worst when the weather is warm, winds are calm, and the caribou are in damp tundra areas where the mosquitoes breed. Caribou try to avoid mosquitoes by a variety of strategies, depending on where they live: they run; move to higher areas that may be windy and dry; move to snow or ice patches that are too cool for the insects to be active; move out into large lakes or shallow salt water; and/or bunch up into very dense groups.
The running, blood loss, and inability to spend time eating cause caribou to lose weight during a time of year when they need to be getting fat for the coming winter. Mosquitoes are therefore a major influence in the lives of caribou.

**kingwilly** · 08-01-2009, 08:11 AM

Originally Posted by Eliminator

Wrong KW: Arctic Refuge: Caribou FAQs

damn, better hope the OP aint a Caribou then.

**AnthonyR1** · 08-01-2009, 09:26 AM

so i should get a caribou that way the mozzies will leave me alone. my place is pretty small but i could squeeze 1 in i suppose

**mad_dog** · 08-01-2009, 09:33 AM

Eating lots of garlic puts them off.

**kingwilly** · 08-01-2009, 09:36 AM

Originally Posted by AnthonyR1

so i should get a caribou that way the mozzies will leave me alone. my place is pretty small but i could squeeze 1 in i suppose

well you'll need your caribou storage box then!

**kingwilly** · 08-01-2009, 09:43 AM

Originally Posted by mad_dog

Eating lots of garlic puts them off.

no that's vampires silly.

**Nawty** · 08-01-2009, 10:39 AM

I have a mosquito magnet for sale....best offer.

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