I think we use Bug Be Gone back yard spray. [img]images/smiley_icons/oh yes.gif[/img] Hook it up to the hose and spray away! That has helped us a lot!!!
When we get those small bugs that can fit through screens, we just close all the windows and spray them too.
Tried and true? Yes I do! Try this, it really works.
Go to Goodwill or Salvation Army. Buy as many pairs of old denim bluejeans... ragged already. See if you can get them as cheap as possible. Or, if you are as redneck as me.... just cut off the legs into shorts.
Now, get a large metal coffee can. Roll the cutoff legs of the jeans up as tight as you can. Now, set them on fire. Let it smolder for a good 30 seconds, and snuff out the flame so that the jeans just glow red where they're burning. Cotton burns kinda slow, and the smoke will keep the skeeters at least 20 ft away.
[b]i got an e-mail saying to put a few drops of Lemon Fresh Joy dish soap and some water. Put it on a plate outside and they are attracted to it and it kills them.
The name of the bug spray from Avon is SSS Expedition (Aerosol is unscented, pump bottle is slightly pleasantly scented and also water repellent) the price is $12, but you can get it on sale for $5.99. I have been selling Avon for several years and I have been experimenting with Skin So Soft Bath Oil. There are over 100 uses that customers have come up with, one of them has been found to repel bugs. You can use it in your bath or dilute with water and spray yourself directly. I have also had good results with diluting with water and spraying the grass prior to an event. It is worth a try.
take dryer sheets, cut them into flower shapes and attach them to skewers with floral tape. you can dye them or add embellishments. put them in the ground in the area you want the skeeters to stay away from. They work wonderfully. My mom has several ponds in her patio, and was constantly battling mosquitoes, so I made her a dozen or so to place around the ponds and now she can stay out on the patio as long as she wants with no bothersome skeeters.
DRYER sheets? I will be trying that soon! We live next to 750 acres of forest preserve... and just has 12" of rain last week.
I made my own Skeeter trap for inside though... cause we were getting eaten alive inside. I've only had it going for a couple of days... but so far so good!
I used:
1 - 8" plastic flower pot
2 rolls - sticky fly paper (non toxic - just sticky)
Bunch of thumbtacs
1 - night light & extension cord
1 - Toasty toes heat pad (must be replaced every night)
1 - can goop or other hand cleaner
The idea is to attract mosquitoes to the "trap" and as they fly in, they get stuck to the fly paper. Skeeters are attracted to light and heat. We turn this on in our bedroom at night.
I cut (carefully) a bunch of holes into the flower pot with a box cutter so the light would shine thru. Then cut a small hole at the bottom for the extension cord to go thru.
Then unroll the fly paper rolls and place in the flower pot to create a web of sorts. This is a VERY sticky part of the job! I used thumbtacs to keep the paper in place on the pot.
When it's time to turn it on, I put one of those sticky heat pads on the inside of the pot, run the extension cord thur and attach the nightlight - turn it on.
I had to come up with something besides wearing DEET to bed. It's August now, so everyone is selling winter stuff... not mosquito stuff! (at least in Chicago!)
Edited to add: Oh... almost forgot! The "goop" is for cleaning your hands after handling that fly paper!
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