To my knowledge there’s no stagnant water on my property, I’ve run water through all my ptraps, and I’m careful to not leave doors open. Yet at any given time there’s at least 3 in my house. I can’t sleep, i can’t sit on the couch, i can’t exist in the fear of being sucked dry.
The breaking point is when i watched my dog get bit on her head. I’m ready to do whatever it takes and then some. I will kill a man if it saves me from these demons. Any ideas?
Window screens, fly ribbons, and a Bug-A-Salt gun lol. The bug-a-salt shoots salt very fast to kill bugs.
How frequently do you change the dog’s water?
Garlic, lots of garlic. Plant it in your garden, under your windows. Rub your doorframe and window frames with it. Rub the dog collar with it.
Helps against Ticks as well
I guess if it works to repel one type of blood sucker, it should work on all of them
Afaik that’s were the vampire stuff comes from
Imo the easiest option: fly screens everywhere. Especially in bedroom and keep this door closed so they won’t get in (in case they come through other doors)
I no longer have issues with them and if I ever see one, I just use my electric fly swatter. I also can’t sleep when there’s one in the room.
Fly screens are totally worth it. Self made might be cheaper, but I’m not cerrain since I didn’t do them myself.
In the region where I leave it would be impossible to not have mosquitoes around, the conditions are just good for them, but I have an electric zapper that is shaped like a tennis racquet and I can zap them as soon as I see them inside the house. I also do the chemical fumigation now and then, but for the most part I use the electric zapper. It is very common in countries and regions where mosquitoes are a pest.
Get like 5 pet frogs
Love opening a thread all excited for some answers only to get 100 repeats of the same unfunny joke.
Here are some answers I’ve found by looking around:
basil, catnip, citronella, lavender, mint, etc. Most bugs don’t like fragrant plants because they can’t smell their prey or predators accurately anymore
If you can find where they’re breeding, establishing some frogs would make a buff difference. Tadpoles gobble the larva up from what I understand. I’ve also read that bats are way helpful, and you can apparently establish a small bar colony in a bat house.
Best of luck, mosquitos are evil.
Wolbachia Parasites
Get a lighter and an aerosol spray. Anytime you see one fly by let it rip.
Get a cat or better two. It worked for me and my husband at least inside the house.
If you want to go full bore, nothing beats 100% DEET. It is like gasoline, but I have yet to find a more effective personal repellent.
DEET works… but it’s worth mentioning that it will utterly destroy the polycarbonate lenses used for modern eyeglasses
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So it sounds like you think your home is sealed already. I assume they’re just coming in when you do? You could spray near the doors maybe. Insecticide probably isn’t good for you but it’s worth considering living in a cloud of DEET if you’re that desperate.
Dual wield those electric tennis rackets?
If you’re talking about a particular area, using fans can help push mosquitoes away.
If you’re mobile, use DEET on your skin and permethrin on your clothes and your dog’s fur.
A lot of good suggestions already here. Try to eliminate the mosquitoes in your house as much as possible. I installed mosquito nets on my windows a few years ago. This helped a lot. I am now asking myself why I haven’t done this before.
But I do still get bites like one or two a day, because I also like to be outside in my garden and sometimes a mosquito still finds a way into the house.
So there is no way you can prevent all bites. But the good thing is, you can treat them really well really easy with heat! I do this when I have a cup of tea. I just press the hot tea cup on the bite for a short while. But there are also special pen like devices called electronic insect bite healer or something similar. They are about 10-20 euros. They work as well and are probably safer and easier to handle.
Heat does disintegrate the anticoagulant that mosquitos inject and that makes the bites so itchy. The bites I get itch only ones. Then I treat them with heat and they are basically gone. Try to not scratch because you might spread the anticoagulant more. Just treat them right away!
