kill! erik! kill! the anti-mosquito thread

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any tips on killing mosquitos in your house/sleep? i have now several stings the size of terschelling all over me body. aaaargh. can't sleep. feel wrecked.

― Erik, Wednesday, 30 July 2003 05:48 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.taima.org/img/mosquito.jpg

― Dada, Wednesday, 30 July 2003 05:51 (twenty-two years ago)

get one of those zinger things that repells them. here ( nz ) they cost about $7, they are a small unit that is portable and has a wee fan swishing out 'anti-mossie' stuff. run by batteries. great idea, i use one in my sons room and it works really well.
failing that? mossie nets, and / or screens on the windows and doors.

― donna (donna), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 06:23 (twenty-two years ago)

They aren't stings really, they're bites. STings are defensive. A mosquito is feeding on you.

calamine lotion is soothing. To avoid, don't leave any water sitting about the house: dishes, dripping faucets, glasses left on the nightstands. Keep screens on doors/windows etc.

― Texas Sam (thatgirl), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 06:23 (twenty-two years ago)

also, citronella candles lit prior to bedtime can help repell the little fuckers. do not forget to snuff the candle though!

― donna (donna), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 06:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I have recently learned that the canal-side Venetians plant geraniums in their window boxes as a natural repellant, and that lavender is also a recognizied plant... maybe a few well placed sprigs (garlic style?) will keep those f-rrs away.

mosquito hearts tara, tara skulls mosquito.

― petite verte (petite verte), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Desperado by the Eagles is a record they hate. Be careful with the track listing, if you play Pretty Maids all in a Row from the Hotel California album, they'll bring their hungry mates.

― Adam the Thames Boy, Wednesday, 30 July 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Get a mosquito net and hang it around your bed.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

No flies on you, Chris V.

― Adam the Thames Boy, Wednesday, 30 July 2003 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

We got one as Chris was spending 30 mins every night killing every single one of the buggers. Now he still kills them all, as he can hear them zinging about and gets paranoid and thinks they've got inside...

I'd try and find mesh that will stop them getting in through open windows.

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

other than screens on windows, there is not much to offer. But a helpful hint for bites (also works for horsefly bites): plain old viniger takes the itch away fast. Avoid: if you have scratched bloody. it will cause pain.

― danielle g. (danielle g.), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 12:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Slay the earth. That solves the problem.

In one of the most interesting cases of belief resulting from the conditions one finds oneself in, there's a story in Hindu tradition that says one day all the animals got together and concluded mankind was a truly useless species that caused them problems and should be killed. However, the mosquito objected on the grounds that humans were delicious, and so Homo sapiens thrived -- which is why you shouldn't object to mosquitoes, which I assume was a psychological survival tactic for the more pest-ridden areas of the subcontinent.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i saw at k-mart once the "mosquito deleto" contraption. although, i suggest you try to avoid the local k-mart as much as posible

― cordelia, Wednesday, 30 July 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuck Off.

― A Mosquito (rwillmsen), Wednesday, 30 July 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

go to hell!

― citronella de vill, Saturday, 2 August 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

O to be a mosquito.

― Chris P (Chris P), Saturday, 2 August 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.visi.com/~lindowdy/cmkc/mosquito.jpg

It's the state bird, you bet!

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 2 August 2003 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought it was the state bird of Michigan. I guess it's a joke that travels.

I got eaten alive by these critters in Michigan the other weekend. Although I don't even mind so much, in a way, because having mosquito bites is almost a little souvenir of the countryside, where I don't get too often. However when they attack me at home--in Chicago--I do take it personally.

― amateurist (amateurist), Saturday, 2 August 2003 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I think the MN state bird comes from having ~~breeding grounds~~ freshwater lakes in the cities and *slap* a marsh 100 feet from my front door when I was a kid.

Venice in the summertime: where would you like your welts, sir?

― suzy (suzy), Saturday, 2 August 2003 17:26 (twenty-two years ago)

death in venice II

― Eriiiik, Saturday, 2 August 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

spray permethrin on your pajamas. apparently a sheet of bounce on your belt loop is meant to keep them away. save the mosquitoes you kill i can tell you if they are culex and thus possibly carrying west nile. but yeah no water in the planter collection plates. you could stop breathing too, they are attracted to co2.

― keith (keithmcl), Saturday, 2 August 2003 22:30 (twenty-two years ago)

black flies are much worse than mosquitoes. no damp soil to keep them away.

― keith (keithmcl), Saturday, 2 August 2003 22:31 (twenty-two years ago)

who wears pajamas these days?

― Eriiik, Sunday, 3 August 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

What, you sleep nude?

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 4 August 2003 05:20 (twenty-two years ago)

you don't?

― Eriik, Monday, 4 August 2003 05:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Only one way to find out.

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 4 August 2003 05:53 (twenty-two years ago)

now don't get yourself all excited.

reely. stop it. before the moderator sees you.

― Eriik, Monday, 4 August 2003 06:11 (twenty-two years ago)

You tease me, sir!

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 4 August 2003 06:17 (twenty-two years ago)

down, boy, down!

where is that bloody moderator when you need him!

― Eriik, Monday, 4 August 2003 06:32 (twenty-two years ago)

Sigh.

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 4 August 2003 06:39 (twenty-two years ago)

OK i give in. take your accordian out.

― Eriik, Monday, 4 August 2003 06:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Tonight, I squeeze for you!

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 4 August 2003 06:52 (twenty-two years ago)

mmm lovely, i'll send you 20 choirboys to help you!

― Eriik, Monday, 4 August 2003 07:00 (twenty-two years ago)

20 chiorboys I can get; how do I earn a lesson with the choirmaster?

(And on that note, it is bedtime, and I bid you and any future potential employers who googled my name adieu.)

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 4 August 2003 07:04 (twenty-two years ago)

its amazing what you can get away with on ilx

― Eriik, Monday, 4 August 2003 07:16 (twenty-two years ago)

bon nuit!

― Eriik, Monday, 4 August 2003 07:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Ooer, you two.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 4 August 2003 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I was expecting someone to make a comment eventually. I didn't expect that comment to be "Ooer".

― Chris P (Chris P), Monday, 4 August 2003 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)

i was more or less expecting anthony the choir-maistro to jump in.

― Eriik, Monday, 4 August 2003 18:52 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

so what mosquito repellant do you recommend?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 6 June 2006 22:43 (twenty years ago)

oh consumer reports just tested these, I forget what the exact results were but basically don't waste your time with non-deet stuff.

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 00:23 (twenty years ago)

My whole fam used to buy some hardass stuff called Ben's 100. Srsly. One summer we went camping in the Florida Keys and used it at night because of the midges. My sister was a baby and couldn't have any (DEET not safe for infants) and she was COVERED in welts the next day but the rest of us were fine.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 7 June 2006 00:48 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

Damn mosquitos. I need fifteen mosquito magnets to line my yard, imo:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSukHSCdDFc&NR=1

Witness this horrifying experiment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7V_GBQclQfc&feature=related

That guy is crazy, putting his life at risk like that.

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 7 June 2009 19:22 (seventeen years ago)

Srsly. I live in The South, and have spent the last week killing mosquitos that have landed upon my ankles after bedtime. I've lost about an hour of sleep every night.

I'm a engineer/scientific type, and have decided to eradicate the fuckers. No mercy.

So inside, I've purchased a Flowtron Model PV-440 Galaxie Power-Vac Mosquito Control Unit (now discontinued, but I found an ebay seller with one for $30), and outside a Flowtron Model BK-40D Electronic Insect Killer (One Acre Coverage). All will be loaded with Octenol mosquito attractant. No feedback yet (they haven't arrived). But I want the mutherfuckers dead. All of them. If I can make them suffer, all the better.

I'll tell you how well my experiment in biological warfare works.

― Derelict, Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:16 (seventeen years ago)

I live in the South, too (Coral Gables, Fla.). It's been horrible for a few weeks.

My wife wants us to buy two mosquito magnets; one for the front yard, one for the back yard. Let me know if the item you've bought is successful. We'll compare notes. No mercy on these bastard mosquitos.

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:29 (seventeen years ago)

As part of the repairs/renovations here, I'm going to build and put up some bat houses.

― unicorn poop evaluator (WmC), Sunday, 7 June 2009 22:57 (seventeen years ago)

hope you plan on planting two trees

― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Sunday, 7 June 2009 23:03 (seventeen years ago)

The worst part about that mosquito video is how long it takes for it to fill up. The second worse part is how it shakes its proboscis at the end, as if preparing to exit the men's john.

― Can't stop the dancing chickens (dyao), Sunday, 7 June 2009 23:47 (seventeen years ago)

An acquaintence just told my wife that the mosquito magnet doesn't work. Others we know say it works like a charm, and it's essential to their lives.

Anyone here have experience with a mosquito magnet trap?

― Daniel, Esq., Monday, 8 June 2009 00:11 (seventeen years ago)

LET THIS BE A WARNING TO MOSQUITOES

― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Monday, 8 June 2009 02:52 (seventeen years ago)

I'm getting really good at the move where I snatch them out of the air with one hand and then slap my closed hand with my other hand just to make sure they're dead./

― Garri$on Kilo (Hurting 2), Thursday, 11 June 2009 04:32 (seventeen years ago)

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