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Disadvantage -Mosquitoes

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Noner:
Yes I got my first mosquitoe bit yesterday. A true sign of warmer weather. Of course I get it right on the top of my head so it looks like I was hit with a baseball. Besides wearing a hat, are there any good methods to keeping those varmints off you noggin?

Robmeister:
That little varmint must've felt like he was atop the north pole, man....no landscape for MILES!!!  :*))

I would imagine OFF or other standard bug repellent would work.

Paul:

--- Quote from: Noner on April 23, 2007, 07:16:12 AM ---Yes I got my first mosquitoe bit yesterday. A true sign of warmer weather. Of course I get it right on the top of my head so it looks like I was hit with a baseball. Besides wearing a hat, are there any good methods to keeping those varmints off you noggin?

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If you want something with no Deet in it, Avon's Skin so Soft works pretty well at repelling a lot of different bugs.  We use it in the Upper Pennisula and the bugs there are big enough to carry you off.

jusbnme:
I know this sounds crazy but it really does work.  I guess you can call it a "home remedy."  It's for people that don't want to use things with chemicals.  Mosquitoes hate the smell of lemons.  So if you get a little squirt of lemon juice and pat a little on your wrists and a little on your shirt collar it should keep them away.  Another thing is to take a laundry dryer sheet and rub it on your clothing.  Supposedly they hate the smell of that also.  When I first heard of these two methods I thought they sounded crazy.  So being the "big dork" that I am I did a little experiment.  I rubbed a dryer sheet on my shirt and patted a little lemon juice on my arms and went outside with my wife.  My wife was getting ate up and I didn't even have one bite.  So I guess it works. 

wpruitt:
Paul knows his stuff ... we use Skin So Soft down here in the south too

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