Come on up north in the spring and discover our salt marsh mosquitos, green head flies, horse flies and the nasty little black flies. The black flies alone make me miss the sand fleas.
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eucalyptus oil
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RECIPE: 2 cups white vinegar, 1 cup Skin-So-Soft (Avon's), 1 cup water, 1 Tablespoon Eucalyptus Oil.
Fill any spray bottle

found this on a website
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Mosquitoes don't bother us much, although I did crush a huge one a couple of nights ago that somehow found its way in the house.

But sitting on the dock last weekend, the noseeums are definitely back, and those little bastards aren't playing.
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Rub fabric softener sheets on your exposed skin. Mosquitoes will not come near you (and you smell good too:-)).
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I'm half-ass allergic to mosquito bites. If I get more than 10 or 12 I get dizzy, labored breathing and gotta get out of Dodge immediately.
Skin-so-soft is worthless. I bought into that story once. :-)
It does work on gnats, but not as good as OFF! Active in the pump bottle.
I keep 3 or 4 bottles of that stuff around for all occasions and it works great. It even keeps sweat flies off of me when I'm mowing grass at the ball field, and that's the main reason I use it.

I used to battle mosquitos at my last home (the farm) and managed to control them by keeping water dishes, buckets, and any standing water dried up. It was a "house rule" that a bucket was to be turned upside-down at all times.
Promoting bats with a bat house works wonders. A few of them carefully deployed will keep enough bats that you'll be stylin.
If you have one of those slackwater Florida ditches behind your house, you're kinda out of luck. A gallon of malathion dumped in there every now and again will help, but it depends how much water is coming in.
The trick with skeeters is that you have to battle the cycle on all fronts. If you kill the larvae with malathion in the water, have bats pounding them in the air, and manage the water holes where they breed, you can honestly pound them into submission. At least I can here in PA. :-)
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A ton of funny resposes here guys, thanks it really made me chuckle.
No I do not have a screened enclosure, no one has them in our community - they may be non-HOA compliant, I don't know. I think a Gazebo with those roll down screens would work, I'd like to get one of those.

I will try the methods suggested and report back with the results. Stay tuned.......
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Listerine :-)
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You're just trying to get me to put wacko things on my body! :-):-)
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the eucalyptus oil in Listerine is what works, I spray the chair area etc. that is why that recipe I posted earlier should work or I'll smoke a Cohiba :-)
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