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URL icon « on: June 04, 2009, 10:06:08 AM »
How are the mosquitos this year? Sounds like it has been a "wet" year , so I'm assuming it will be a bad year?
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URL icon « Reply #1 on: June 04, 2009, 10:22:04 AM »
It has been pretty wet for sure.  I was camping last weekend near Telluride around 10,000 ft and it was very swampy but still too cold for mosquitoes but am sure they'll be around in Town Park a bit.  It's never real bad though. 
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URL icon « Reply #2 on: June 04, 2009, 01:30:05 PM »
At Walmart I found some organic bug spray that is safe on kids.  Just throwin' it out there that they have it since bug spray is so toxic.  And bug bites suck.
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URL icon « Reply #3 on: June 04, 2009, 02:13:23 PM »
Stock up on citronella candles....  Thumbs Up

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URL icon « Reply #4 on: June 04, 2009, 02:21:05 PM »
They also say that Irish spring soap is somewhat repellant.

Also taking Garlic supplements.

I am somewhat of a mosquito magnet. 

My parents remember the days chasing the DEET truck down the street as the city fogged for insects.  We turned out OK (mostly).
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URL icon « Reply #5 on: June 04, 2009, 02:32:34 PM »
If you ask Kimmy Jo she will tell you that Irish Spring is also a woman repellent!
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URL icon « Reply #6 on: June 04, 2009, 03:05:52 PM »
4 out of 5 dentists say that drinking Crunchy Frog will kill 97% of mosquitoes who bite you almost instantly. 
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URL icon « Reply #7 on: June 04, 2009, 03:07:30 PM »
Quote from: UselessJo on June 04, 2009, 02:32:34 PM
If you ask Kimmy Jo she will tell you that Irish Spring is also a woman repellent!

Does anybody want to buy a whole bunch of un-used soap?
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URL icon « Reply #8 on: June 04, 2009, 03:16:59 PM »
Quote from: vetniles on June 04, 2009, 02:21:05 PM
My parents remember the days chasing the DEET truck down the street as the city fogged for insects.  We turned out OK (mostly).

 EEK!

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I have heard that keeping some fabric softener sheets on you helps, but I only tried it once & couldn't really tell if it did.   I can't imagine Telluride having a worse mosquito situation then here in FL, so I'm not gonna worry!  (Now watch me get all bit up while I'm out there.)
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URL icon « Reply #9 on: June 04, 2009, 03:23:26 PM »
Another good method is to take vitamin B-12. It's supposed to keep nasty, biting bugs away
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URL icon « Reply #10 on: June 04, 2009, 06:28:37 PM »
Quote from: Bevin on June 04, 2009, 03:07:30 PM
Quote from: UselessJo on June 04, 2009, 02:32:34 PM
If you ask Kimmy Jo she will tell you that Irish Spring is also a woman repellent!

Does anybody want to buy a whole bunch of un-used soap?

I happen to like the smell of irish spring fresh out da' shower! use it on up, Bevin!  Wink
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URL icon « Reply #11 on: June 04, 2009, 06:35:46 PM »
oh BTW my sis is an herbalist, and will be bringing her "big juice" with her (maybe to sell?), which consists of a base of:

vodka (1 oz)
aged witch hazel tincture (1 oz)
10 drops cat nip essential oil (some studies show it's more powerful than deet, and oh so natural)
1oz water
5 drops lavender essential oil
5 drops eucalyptus essential oil
5 drops peppermint essential oil
optional addition for black flies: lemon grass essential oil (5-7 drops)
optional addition for tics, 5-7 drops rose jeranium

dat's pretty much it.  Flower
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URL icon « Reply #12 on: June 04, 2009, 06:44:04 PM »
Tell Sis, I want some to buy w/ extra for tics when we head east... 
I'm hoping Matthew is over his mosquito phobia.. It was sooooooo bad a few years ago...  We do not have mosquitos in Tucson and we went through a period of time  ( probably when all the news was about West Nile) when he would wake up screaming every night about mosquitos.. This went on for over a year or so....
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URL icon « Reply #13 on: June 04, 2009, 07:07:29 PM »
Will it work on Mika???? The ticks have been something fierce this year and we need a good herbal repellent. The over the counter meds make a puppy toxic and destroy her kidneys over time.

Put me down for some!!!

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URL icon « Reply #14 on: June 04, 2009, 07:56:36 PM »
jessica made an entire cat/dog first aid kit, I'll ask about what she has for tick repellent!
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