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Is there an effective food that makes your skin less attractive to mosquito's?
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Posted: 10/2/2014 10:40:19 PM EST
My dad would eat onions like an apple. He never seemed to be swarmed when I was. I still think he was just fucking with me, but maybe it worked.
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Posted: 10/2/2014 10:41:11 PM EST
2 cups of sodium hydroxide.
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Posted: 10/2/2014 10:41:37 PM EST
Deet sandwich?
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Posted: 10/2/2014 10:41:46 PM EST
I've heard yeast helps. May be an old wives tale.
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Posted: 10/2/2014 10:42:42 PM EST
IIRC, garlic is pretty effective against blood parasites due to sulfur content.
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Posted: 10/2/2014 10:42:50 PM EST
I heard that garlic works although I've never tried it.
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FL, USA
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Posted: 10/2/2014 10:43:26 PM EST
Eat? Not sure, but alcohol does the trick. If your not hungry or thursty, take one of the Bounce dryer sheets, unfold, rub on your neck, and leave there and they wont be able to find you. It works, I leave is Florida where it seems ALL of the mosquitos also live.
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AL, USA
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Posted: 10/2/2014 10:44:48 PM EST
Not sure about food, but constant gin and tonics should help.
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Posted: 10/2/2014 10:45:59 PM EST
Non-strike anywhere match heads...
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Posted: 10/2/2014 10:46:05 PM EST
garlic doesn't help. my brother eats raw garlic so much he stinks of it, and he gets eaten up at my shop while the beasties ignore me.
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Posted: 10/2/2014 10:46:28 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By 4dzc: Eat? Not sure, but alcohol does the trick. If your not hungry or thursty, take one of the Bounce dryer sheets, unfold, rub on your neck, and leave there and they wont be able to find you. It works, I leave is Florida where it seems ALL of the mosquitos also live. Vitamin B also seemed to work for me.
Or Vodka, lots of Vodka.
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Posted: 10/2/2014 10:46:55 PM EST
[Last Edit: 10/2/2014 10:54:43 PM EST by JoseCuervo]
Get a Thermacell. I know you can't eat it.. They home in on CO2 so kill (per their flyer I believe) em unless you can hold your breath awhile.
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Posted: 10/2/2014 10:48:23 PM EST
As I understand it, they are attracted to your CO2 emissions. So quit breathing so much.
 Or find a larger emitter than you to draw them away from you. |
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TN, USA
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Posted: 10/2/2014 10:49:35 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By Kuraki:
My dad would eat onions like an apple. He never seemed to be swarmed when I was. I still think he was just fucking with me, but maybe it worked. I also like eating onions like apples...I am white...I train jiu jitsu...I have no body ink...the earth is 6 THOUSAND YEARS OLD! ...precise correlation! 
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Posted: 10/2/2014 10:49:50 PM EST
Lots of salt. They should definitely leave you alone then.
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Posted: 10/2/2014 10:50:49 PM EST
Freshly fallen snow.
Garlic doesn't work. I get tore up by skeeters, and we go through 7-8 bulbs a week. |
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Posted: 10/2/2014 10:51:09 PM EST
Raw garlic will keep the skeeters away if you eat enough. As a bonus, it will also keep other people away.
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Posted: 10/2/2014 10:51:33 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By JoseCuervo:
Thermacell. They home in on O2 Co2 so kill (per their flyer I believe) em unless you can hold your breath awhile. |
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Posted: 10/2/2014 10:51:58 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By EffingThirteener:
Not sure about food, but constant gin and tonics should help. You and me could be friends. |
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Posted: 10/2/2014 10:52:31 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By S-28: Garlic doesn't work. I get tore up by skeeters, and we go through 7-8 bulbs a week. i stand corrected.
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Posted: 10/2/2014 10:53:15 PM EST
Mosquitoes. Won't repel them but everyone you eat is one less to bother you.
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Posted: 10/2/2014 10:54:21 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By madmedic:
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By madmedic:
Originally Posted By JoseCuervo:
Thermacell. They home in on O2 Co2 so kill (per their flyer I believe) em unless you can hold your breath awhile.  . Doh!  Typo on a phone. 
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Posted: 10/2/2014 10:59:34 PM EST
Eat a fruit bat, catch ebola, and make airborne bio-weaponsnfrom your lawn chair. /not sure that will work
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Posted: 10/2/2014 11:22:53 PM EST
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Posted: 10/2/2014 11:25:43 PM EST
This works for me.
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Posted: 10/2/2014 11:40:31 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By sirensong:
i stand corrected. Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By sirensong:
Originally Posted By S-28:
Garlic doesn't work. I get tore up by skeeters, and we go through 7-8 bulbs a week. i stand corrected. Everybody seems to think Garlic works. Just ask the crew that works my Blueberry fields in the spring, before we get to spraying. Those guys eat the hell out of Chili Vinagre', and load up on the garlic in everything. It's not just a sample of one. To be fair, I have no clue how much worse it might be, if I eliminated Garlic from the diet. We might just have a localized subspecies of skeeters that are drawn to Dago and Mexican flavored blood.
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Posted: 10/2/2014 11:49:21 PM EST
I have a theory that my unhealthy diet of mostly Mountain Dew, Cheeseburgers, Bacon, Black coffee, whiskey, IPA's, and enough nicotine to murder a small South American village has rendered my body chemistry toxic and generally undesirable to most bugs and other varmints. Even dogs won't bite me.
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Posted: 10/2/2014 11:57:44 PM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By MonkTx:
Mosquitoes. Won't repel them but everyone you eat is one less to bother you. 
Good one! I would not only subscribe to your newsletter, I would hire you to hang out in my backyard to eat the mosquitoes while you write it! |
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Posted: 10/3/2014 12:00:17 AM EST
Eat citronella candles.
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AZ, USA
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Posted: 10/3/2014 12:05:23 AM EST
[Last Edit: 10/3/2014 12:07:39 AM EST by savage338]
Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By Dennis2313:
I heard that garlic works although I've never tried it. I eat a lot of garlic, 4-7 cloves a day, I still get attacked by the bastards. What works is using either lavender or peppermint essential oil on exposed skin and zero bites. I put about 5-6 drops of either oil on a cotton ball and soak it with isopropyl alcohol and wipe it on. no bites for a few hours but I smell like I rolled through a herb garden. |
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Posted: 10/3/2014 12:06:38 AM EST
Bananas
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Posted: 10/3/2014 12:07:37 AM EST
I have never seen a mosquito in the basement. She had better hope that I never do.
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Posted: 10/3/2014 12:17:07 AM EST
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Posted: 10/3/2014 12:20:08 AM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By kayamana:
Bananas not cool, bro |
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Posted: 10/3/2014 12:21:06 AM EST
Hire a pest controlman to spray your house or learn how to do it yourself, problem solved.
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Posted: 10/3/2014 12:28:43 AM EST
Drink the ink of the North Pacific Giant Octopus.
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Posted: 10/3/2014 12:30:20 AM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By Reservist:
Hire a pest controlman to spray your house or learn how to do it yourself, problem solved. 
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Posted: 10/3/2014 12:30:24 AM EST
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Posted: 10/3/2014 12:39:11 AM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By sirbordsalot311:
not cool, bro You're right! I should have spelled it babnanas... |
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Posted: 10/3/2014 1:49:01 AM EST
Drink DDT and snack on PIC's Mosquito Repellent Coils
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Posted: 10/3/2014 2:06:56 AM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By katrina24:
Drink DDT and snack on PIC's Mosquito Repellent Coils I was going to suggest shots of Raid |
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Posted: 10/3/2014 2:08:05 AM EST
Bleach
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Posted: 10/3/2014 2:16:52 AM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By sirbordsalot311: not cool, bro Quote HistoryOriginally Posted By sirbordsalot311: Originally Posted By kayamana: Bananas not cool, bro  |
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Posted: 10/3/2014 2:46:58 AM EST
GARLIC!!
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Posted: 10/3/2014 3:07:30 AM EST
We live on a lake & have hellacious skeeters. Last year a neighbor recommended planting mums around the patio (which we did) AWESOME skeeter repellant. Try it!
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Posted: 10/3/2014 3:22:07 AM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By Kuraki: My dad would eat onions like an apple. He never seemed to be swarmed when I was. I still think he was just fucking with me, but maybe it worked. |
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Posted: 10/3/2014 3:23:01 AM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By Mal_means_bad: Deet sandwich? |
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Posted: 10/3/2014 4:11:37 AM EST
Quote History One of the best Super Bowl commercials ever, IMO. Yet it never polled very high. |
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Posted: 10/3/2014 4:22:07 AM EST
Quote History Originally Posted By Intune69:
We live on a lake & have hellacious skeeters. Last year a neighbor recommended planting mums around the patio (which we did) AWESOME skeeter repellant. Try it! They make natural insecticides out of Chrysanthemums called Pyrethrum. Its potent shit and found in many bug bombs. |
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Posted: 10/3/2014 6:31:34 AM EST
I've always heard Brewer's Yeast, never tried it though.
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