Enjoying your flashlights - despite mosquitoes!

i’ve been using the screen-covered fan trick from the dan rojas video to catch the mosquitos, then spraying the catch with a mist of rubbing alcohol to kill them.

i think he runs the fans away from the sitting area, but i aim them towards me to provide a bit of cooling and it still seems to work. He uses 2 for his dog kennel, one in and one out.

I have tried this screen-covered fan method without using any attractant and I would say it really works.

The bug zapper with attractant is little help at best, it seems to keep them down a little in the immediate area but not much more. Can’t really say I would recommend it.

Oh, this is good, I’ll look it up.

I use store bought fly traps for my dog kennel.

Maybe a ryobi or dewalt fan portable could improve my camping significantly!

IMO, they prefer to land on your head (but not exclusively), they’re kind of slow (reacting and flying), and slow to bite, so generally you can swat them by smacking yourself, or swatting as they circle your head. Bite is pretty nasty.

Protective clothing is your best option. :wink:

This is true, especially for everyone’s health (spraying/applying chemicals), but annoying to wear.

IMO, this is the best way to handle blackflies in the adirondacks in late May, early June. The head nets, bugnet jackets (and bugnet pants), work, for sure. But I’ve found this much more comfortable. Easier to eat, especially, w/ the zipper on the head.

https://www.bugshirt.com/products/elite/

website photo, not me, we don’t take many photos when the bugs are bad enough to wear this.

We don’t have to deal with them. Northern NM does not have mosquitos or very many annoying flying bugs at all.

We do keep insect repellent in the camping gear but that is mainly used in other states; CO for example. And we are too far north, too high an elevation to be bothered with poisonous snakes. Black widow and brown spiders are around but easier to avoid than skeeters.

We have some mosquitoes, but it's not that bad here.

So to enjoy my flashlights, I should move to the desert :slight_smile:

Singapore where I work is a very green city-state. Insects could be a problem, when going outdoors in the late afternoon or evening, especially mosquitos carrying the dreaded dengue (hemorrhagic fever). There is an ongoing national campaign against this tropical communicable disease.

In my apartment, there is a weekly spraying of insecticide fume either on Monday or Tuesday. It is quite effective in keeping away mosquitos. But I guess it also wipes out many “useful” or “harmless” insects.

When we go out walking or jogging in the early evening, we still put some insect repellent lotion. My choice is a “Made in Thailand” lemon grass scented spray.

That sounds much worse. Mostly annoying insects here, if you don’t get the autoimmune Lyme disease from ticks?

That kind of situation, and the millions of deaths per year, mostly under 5 yo, from malaria, Makes one wonder why we don’t just eradicate mosquitoes. The modern attempts to do so by releasing sterile male mosquitoes are a fascinating start.

I guess it would not be cost effective.

I’m like sugar to them. Drop me into a cave on the gd moon and they’ll find me.

If I get one in the house, I’ll go on a blood-hunt with one of those electronical tennis racquets.

Depends on the skeeter. Some will leave a small itchy welt that disappears, itch and all, after an hour or so.

Some will bite on the back of my fingers/knuckles and the site gets all itchy and hot.

Some will leave raised welts that resemble various states. That includes those that bite as they walk, leaving Hawaii on my arm/leg.

Worst are those that must have stinky germy mouths, that will leave a deep crater in the middle of a raised welt, complete with small scab, that itches for days and the scab stays for a coupla weeks. Nasty mfers.

I am the opposite. Everyone gets more bites than I do. I am convinced, if I consume enough nicotine I will be invincible. The mosquitoes are starting to agree. And I like garlic, too.

When I make anything with garlic (garlic toast, garlic mashies, etc.), I use a whole bulb at a time. Not just a few cloves, but the whole honkin’ thing.

They still come after me.

And there was a “news” piece about that recently, and the takeaway was that ostensibly, people who smell tend to be the most attractive to skeeters. Obvious exceptions are myself, and at least 1 sister. I never knew what foot odor was ’til college (literally smelled what I thought was rotting cheese or a dead animal in someone’s apartment, when he took off his work-boots). To this day I don’t use, nor need to, deodorant or antiperspirant. I’d have to wear the same shirt for the better part of a week in 90/90 weather to get a good stank going. Etc. (Whole family was/is like that.)

And I have the Super-Sniffer, and would blurt out at work, “I smell banana…”, and someone an aisle over had a banana for lunch and the peel is in his garbage-can. Or apple, or cucumber, etc. So I definitely ain’t “nose-blind” like in the commercial.

And my ankles and the back of my knees are the biggest juiciest targets. Not exactly sweat-sites.

It’s definitely chemical in nature, but specifically what is still up for grabs.

Mosquitoes like to bite my sister, but no one else in my immediate family.

I think it has to do with each person's specific chemistry.

I would love to have one of these laser mosquito killers, I would come out every evening just to enjoy seeing them being zapped from the air! :sunglasses:

LOL… good plan

since mosquitoes follow our exhaled C02 back to us… if you exhale smoke, it messes up their tracking system… I hear weed works too…

for people who dont smoke constantly…
my camp kit includes sticks of incense.

placed strategically to mix incense smoke with their exhaled breath stream

deer flies also track C02
there are a couple different types, the ones with wings, which are bad enough, and then the ones that shed their wings and burrow under the hair…

Go Nuclear, DEET on a bandana for those mofos!

KIWF.