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I notice some of the repellant products now use Picaridin instead of DEET. I have not tried it but I will buy it if I spot it. Has anyone tried it?
Aeran, I used DEET when it was first introduced and it was in only tiny concentrations. It didn't work any better then than it does now in whopping strengths, and it was just as repulsive.
I once wet my arm with DEET. a real puddle. A goddamn mosquito landed right in the puddle and bit me through it.
I use 100% DEET only when I am in the forest, and only on limited parts of my body, ankles, wrists, and neck. Then I treat all my "forest" clothes and gear with permethrin.
In the suburbs, I'll use citronella candles if I am hanging out at a backyard BBQ. I don't think they work, but I am nostalgic about the smell. I might use OFF! if things are crazy.
In the city? Never use anything, though my suburban method might apply in some parts of the Bronx or the outer parts of the other boroughs. I assume big parts of Queens and SI in particular probably have pretty bad mosquitoes, at least as bad, if not worse, than Westchester.
In the jungle of Colombia those people told me to just lay there and let them bite you until they stop. It has something to do about giving blood or something to the forest and that mosquito bites are part of natures balancing act. Eventually the mosquitos stop biting once they take a certain amount of blood. Try their theory out, at your own risk LOL
They may stop biting, but then they go relax for a day or two and then come back.
I doubt that most Manhattanites aspire to live as people do in Colombian jungles.
In the jungle of Colombia those people told me to just lay there and let them bite you until they stop. It has something to do about giving blood or something to the forest and that mosquito bites are part of natures balancing act.
Try their theory out, at your own risk LOL
I would happily give them all the blood they want, unfortunately they inject an anticoagulant which triggers a horrific immune response in some of us. Only Seventh Floor is immune.
Eventually the mosquitos stop biting once they take a certain amount of blood.
And then they go away and are replaced by 100 new hungry bastards.
Perhaps rubbing my skin with a smashed garlic clove might help. At least vampires will avoid me.
But it might be moot CL. I don't go to the hinterlands anymore and NYC is pretty mosquito averse.
But I will try garlic if I feel at risk. (I LOVE pasta aglia e olio.)
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Maybe I'll go visit Seventh Floor in his swamp to test it.
Let me know if REPEL works! I tried other natural repellants and nope. They don't do a thing.
7th Floor mentions beer repelling mosquitoes. Are you a beer drinker? Because I'm not.
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