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beckett
Joined: 14 Feb 2005 Posts: 1066
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Posted: 6/8/2007, 2:02 am Post subject: |
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Trishness wrote: |
I use melaleuca (tea tree oil) and eucalyptus oil mixed with some witch hazel. It keeps the mosquitos away.
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Thanks Trish. I think I might try this on Sunday. I would like to avoid bites altogether and not have to worry about the after itch...I really swell up from bug bites. I must be way too sweet because they seem to just love biting me.
Linda _________________ "A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
-- Walter Winchell, American newspaper commentator |
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 6/8/2007, 4:48 am Post subject: |
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I have heard something about if your skin is naturally dry (which mine is) they tend to be less interested.
Nothing beats DEET, and it is not as toxic as some of the health screamers would like you to believe. It does stink to high heaven, though. If something else works well for you, I'd say go for it, but otherwise I'd say try DEET. |
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ghoster
Joined: 14 Nov 2003 Posts: 152 Location: Scottsdale
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Posted: 6/8/2007, 6:20 am Post subject: |
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For many years I camped on a beach in Mexico it was a jungle beach and we had lots of mosquitos. Over the years I tried all of the remedies for both preventing and treating bites. azbackpackr is correct DEET is the only one that will prevent the bites. Forget all of the others, they either don't work or only give sporadic and or temporary protection. These mosquitos carried malaria, along with Dengue, and a few other diseases. I got dengue there along with other illnesses. I was there for the fishing, it was really great, until the long liners got going. But hey it was years ago. I still use DEET when I go out and think there are insects. I just got caught a couple of weeks ago, and now carry the insect repellent with me. Just a learning curve. OF course, some people might be different than I am, but for me it was DEET. |
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azhiker96
Joined: 05 Jan 2003 Posts: 1419
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Posted: 6/8/2007, 9:53 pm Post subject: |
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I once spent some refund money to purchase a natural, organic, pesticide free bug repellant. It used citronella but was only effective for about 5-10 minutes after applying it and even then it only repelled exactly where it was applied. I found it was most effective if the dauber was used to squish the critters. My experience with Deet is that it forms a force field that mosquitoes seem to bounce off when they approach. My first approach is to live in Arizona where mosquitoes are rare compared to other places I've lived. _________________ It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. -- Carl Sagan |
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 6/9/2007, 5:41 am Post subject: |
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In Hawaii everyone burns mosquito coils on the lanai. I lived more or less outside there, under a sheltering roof, but fairly open on the sides, for a few years. We burned those things all the time during the wet seasons. Since they were quite effective, I still keep a box of them in my car camping gear. So if you are in one place, such as in camp, I'd recommend them. They are very light--one could even carry them backpacking for use in camp. They come in a sort of flat square box about 5 inches across. I don't know how easy it is to find them in Arizona, though. |
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