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  • BleachedAnusDawg
    BleachedAnusDawg Member Posts: 13,897 Standard Supporter
    TheRoarOfTheCrowd said:

    BleachedAnusDawg said:

    Cut down all the trees and eliminate stagnant water.

    That is just like saying stay away from dangerously beautiful women... i don't think i'm listening to that...
    In all seriousness, I hate trees because they block out the sun and it's already grey and gloomy too much in the PNW, so don't listen to me on this one. I have seen citronella plants that you can buy from any nursery and they're supposed to help quite a bit.
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  • DawgOfTheAges
    DawgOfTheAges Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 1,827 Founders Club
    ok so I have been doing research on this and it turns out that the bugs are attracted to the motion signature of people and animals exhaling CO2... so the maximum killing approach is apparently to get a machine which exhales CO2, emits UV and infrared light heat signatures, and which is scented in the ways they like best....

    Besides using a beautifully scented woman as bait, there are machines out there that are setup to do that that can be combined with scented plugins to mimic what they like.
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,829 Standard Supporter
    Screened in porch.

    Otherwise, you fucked.

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  • GrundleStiltzkin
    GrundleStiltzkin Member Posts: 61,516 Standard Supporter
    Not much to add, but I know a guym that has the big sized bug zapper. He got that one from a dairy farm that went under, but I'm sure livestock/co-ops sell them. It's big and bright. The amount out bug carnage coming out of that tray is triumphantly revolting. Combine with that with an attractant of some kind.
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  • dflea
    dflea Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 7,287 Swaye's Wigwam
    PurpleThrobber said:

    Screened in porch.

    Otherwise, you fucked.

    No lies detected.

    You can do all kinds of other things, but they aren't that effective. Unless you bust out the DEET - which nobody is crazy about unless you're in the woods and the mosquitoes are eating your ass alive. At my granny's house in Illinois, if you weren't in the screened-in porch, your ass was getting bit by a swarm of mosquitoes.

    The bug zappers that emit CO2 work, and work pretty well, but seem like a lot of cost and effort. And bug zappers kill every flying thing that buzzes around, and really only the fucking mosquitoes are the enemy - and horse flies, but we don't have them around these parts. We have a bunch of citronella candles and torches and shit around the patio - but they're only marginally effective. Normally by mid July, it's dry enough outside that most of the mosquitoes have fucked off and died.

    Get the electric tennis racket or salt shotgun to deal with flying creatures that have made their way inside. Anything inside and flying is a clear enemy and must be dealt with in a severe manner.

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  • booker14
    booker14 Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 187 Swaye's Wigwam
    When necessary you might try insect repellent with Picaridin rather than DEET. It's just as effective, smells better, isn't as toxic and doesn't melt nylon and plastic like DEET does. I used the lotion version a lot last summer and it worked well for me. Gets good reviews at REI.
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  • greenblood
    greenblood Member Posts: 14,573
    Try planting lemon grass around the exterior of the house
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 116,074 Founders Club
    Move to the desert
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,867 Founders Club
    RaceBannon said:

    Move to the desert

    I did. There’s still lots of mosquitoes
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,829 Standard Supporter
    RaceBannon said:

    Move to the desert

    I remember my Gila monster phase.

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