Mosquitos...

Comdrpopnfresh

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This is about as 'off-topic' as it gets. Anyone know of a good way (no fumigation/spraying/dispersed chemicals) to eradicate or repel mosquitos? I live within the city limits of the 5th largest city in the US, and the mosquitos are worse than in the country (mountains). It's so bad that I cannot spend any time outsides, and when I do I am actually concerned about the longterm effects of the smoke and chemicals I end up inhaling from OFF! Mosquito Coils and Citronella Punk Sticks I burn.
Before I moved here I lived next to a forest that was a few acres and had streams, so this is completely bizarre to me. I get bitten whenever I am outside and am seriously fearful of contracting some disease.

Please. Help.
 

MagnusTheBrewer

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Get rid of anything that has standing water like flower pots, bird baths etc. Get a safari hat with mosquito netting. Eat large amounts of vitamin D.
 

Comdrpopnfresh

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You do eventually gain resistance/tolerance of you tough it out.

Is that like rubbing Walker Guts on me? I think I would gain tolerance to electrical current at a quicker rate... Maybe I'll get an electrified swatter and just keep batting away, even if my bare skin is the landing place.
Community participation or not, apparently the dominating (invasive) type in these parts can breed in a water bottle capful of stagnant water.
 

Red Squirrel

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Vitamin D has an effect? Good to know. Does it need to be through supplements/food or does natural vitamin D work too? I presume supplements, because I absorb vitamin D at a much higher rate than average people and mosquitoes still bug me. But now that I think of it, I always hear people mention they are getting bitten before I start to get bothers by them. May just be coincidence though.

One thing I find that is fun is those electric rackets. You need to actively swat it around though, so when they get bad it's pretty much a full body workout just to keep them at bay lol.

One thing I tried which failed is to put a fan on a bug zapper. Bug zappers themselves don't work for mosquitoes, but figured if I put a fan they might get sucked in. You would place it at your feet. But in basic tests I did the fan was not powerful enough. It was only running at about 7 volts though, I just wired it straight into the lithium cell so when I turn the bug zapper on the fan turns on.

I want to try this experiment on a larger scale, I'm thinking a flat panel of metal grid that is similar to those zapper rackets, and it would have like 4 120mm fans on it and you would place it at your feet or around where you're sitting. Everyone would have one. It would create some air flow that would perhaps suck them through the grid of death.

I got that idea from an experiment a coworker tried at his house, he put a big net on a box fan, and they would all get captured in. You could do electric grid with a box fan, but my idea is that if it works with just computer fans it would be portable.

As far as bug repellent, there are some natural oils etc you can use, not only are they probably safer for your skin and don't make you all sticky, but I've found that they actually work better than OFF and Muskol etc. I can't recall any specific name/brands though.

I also heard that mosquitoes are attracted to black, so avoid anything black in the area you're at.
 

MagnusTheBrewer

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The one issue with vitamin D is you acquire a different smell. Not necessarily bad but, different. It generally takes me three weeks of constant exposure to become immune (that's without vit D).
 

AdamK47

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This is about as 'off-topic' as it gets. Anyone know of a good way (no fumigation/spraying/dispersed chemicals) to eradicate or repel mosquitos? I live within the city limits of the 5th largest city in the US, and the mosquitos are worse than in the country (mountains). It's so bad that I cannot spend any time outsides, and when I do I am actually concerned about the longterm effects of the smoke and chemicals I end up inhaling from OFF! Mosquito Coils and Citronella Punk Sticks I burn.
Before I moved here I lived next to a forest that was a few acres and had streams, so this is completely bizarre to me. I get bitten whenever I am outside and am seriously fearful of contracting some disease.

Please. Help.

Why didn't you just say Philadelphia? Could have saved yourself a second or two worth of typing.
 

Elixer

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Only DEET really works to get them not to bite you.
Everything else doesn't do jack, I tried natural oils, candles, plants, sonic emitters and the list goes on. Nothing worked except for DEET.
 
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Iron Woode

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mosquitoes track you by the CO2 you breathe out. creating a very strong CO2 source may distract them.

but after putting up with them for a few years, my parents went and built a screened patio and made our lives easier. we lived beside a lot of natural green spaces and a stream and there was a pond 1/4 mile away.
 

Zstream

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Red Squirrel

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I always wondered if a 10 foot tall screen around a fire pit could work decently. How high do mosquitoes typically fly? They COULD fly over, but would they? I could see them hit the screen and then gravitate up along it, but there could be an electrocution mesh right on top to handle those ones. Hell, make the entire thing an electrocution mesh! FTM!
 

BoomerD

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These work fairly well...
https://www.dynatrap.com/

it's not perfect, but better (IME) than burning the coils and citronella candles by themselves. (I use the candles and dynatrap when camping...candles as a repellent when we're outside, dynatrap ALL the time)
 

bononos

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This is about as 'off-topic' as it gets. Anyone know of a good way (no fumigation/spraying/dispersed chemicals) to eradicate or repel mosquitos? .........

I used some mosquito repellent roll-ons and I think they work as well as deet at least for the first few hours. But the easiest and best way to keep mosquitoes away for me is to use a fan since mosquitoes have weak wings and get blown away.
 
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Scarpozzi

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I read somewhere that mosquitoes don't migrate....what I mean is that they are within a fairly small area during their lifecycle....so if you can eradicate them on your property, you'll only be dealing with bleed-over from your neighbor's yards.

So... I would do what's been mentioned....look for standing water.... Maybe go door knocking at your neighbors and ask if you can look for standing water on their property. They make pellets you can drop into standing water areas that will kill mosquito larva without having to drain whatever it's standing in.

As for those mosquito catchers, they work in some cases...but like a bug zapper, they attract them from a set radius....so maybe you're killing mosquitoes you wouldn't have crossed paths with had you not turned it on... Some use propane to generate a CO2 and have a fan and net that sucks the mosquitoes into a trap.

The best kind of mosquito catcher is a spider's web. I recommend not knocking those down unless they're in your doorways.
 

Fritzo

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I use these on my grass and it handles 80% of them:

Short term:


Long term:



Between the two, and planting citronella around my patio, I don't have too much of an issue.
 

zinfamous

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This is about as 'off-topic' as it gets. Anyone know of a good way (no fumigation/spraying/dispersed chemicals) to eradicate or repel mosquitos? I live within the city limits of the 5th largest city in the US, and the mosquitos are worse than in the country (mountains). It's so bad that I cannot spend any time outsides, and when I do I am actually concerned about the longterm effects of the smoke and chemicals I end up inhaling from OFF! Mosquito Coils and Citronella Punk Sticks I burn.
Before I moved here I lived next to a forest that was a few acres and had streams, so this is completely bizarre to me. I get bitten whenever I am outside and am seriously fearful of contracting some disease.

Please. Help.

bats. put bat boxes on you property and attract as many bats as you can.
 

AdamK47

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Oct 9, 1999
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Learn to live with your mosquito brethren. Think positive thoughts about them. Don't automatically hate them. Love them for what they are. You'll feel good about yourself and the world will be better because of it.
 
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Learn to live with your mosquito brethren. Think positive thoughts about them. Don't automatically hate them. Love them for what they are. You'll feel good about yourself and the world will be better because of it.

Tell us what happens when you try to bond with them....
 

AdamK47

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Tell us what happens when you try to bond with them....

You first need to ask yourself, "What have I done for the greater good of the world?" If you come up empty, then chances are you still have the potential for real change in the world. Bonding with a mosquito may just be the thing that drives purpose in your life. Your life essence goes on to provide nourishment for thousands of lives. Where there once was a black empty hole in your soul now resides a blindingly brilliant light of love. Shining beyond the perceptual bounds of the minds own eye.

As a great poet once said, “Logic clearly dictates that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few, or the one.”
 
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