Itchy!! Mosquitoes!

Subject: Mosquito Tip

Mosquito Tip -

Take vitamin B. Mosquitoes don't like to taste it.

Buy these handy dandy mosquito zappers. At least you'll feel revenged.

http://www.itouchless.com/share/cgi-bin/site.cgi?site_id=itouchless&page_id=pbsdlx&gclid=COmiypKkmJQCFQuwGgodbCJEtg

we had tons of mosquitoes from where i came from, and they are strong too. Some could even bite through my thick jeans.

close any open containers as they collect water, and that's where they would breed. otherwise, get some fish, even small ones would do, and they would eat the larvae.

i heard rosemary and lavender could get rid of the mosquitoes, but i never tried them.

Avon's Skin So Soft. I think the last time I bought it, I went to the Super Saver on 7th Ave near Union. Mosquitos attack me the moment I put my nose outside the front door - but when I wear that stuff (just slather it on like massage oil after a shower), they stay the heck away. It is the only thing I've found that works.

ljnd wrote: Avon's Skin So Soft. I think the last time I bought it, I went to the Super Saver on 7th Ave near Union. Mosquitos attack me the moment I put my nose outside the front door - but when I wear that stuff (just slather it on like massage oil after a shower), they stay the heck away. It is the only thing I've found that works.

What does it smell like?

Mamacita wrote: [quote=ljnd]Avon's Skin So Soft. I think the last time I bought it, I went to the Super Saver on 7th Ave near Union. Mosquitos attack me the moment I put my nose outside the front door - but when I wear that stuff (just slather it on like massage oil after a shower), they stay the heck away. It is the only thing I've found that works.

What does it smell like?
Lol. This question is a sign that the mosquitoes aren't bothering you _that_ much!

At a backyard party the other night everyone was getting eaten alive but they didn't touch me - I had Kiehl's Pear Tree moisturizer on. Also, aloe vera is great for bite itch relief.

My mosquito problem isn't so much with the biting (my partner gets eaten alive, but they don't seem to like the way I taste so much -- although I don't tempt fate) ...

I live in the garden floor of a brownstone and enter and leave via the little grotto-like space under the stoop. From May through September, that space is home to a cloud of mosquitoes. Every damn one of 'em in the neighborhood hangs out there, it seems. It sux, not only because you have to fight your way through on the way in and out, but because when the door into the hallway opens, the air currents suck them into the hallway, and then it's only a matter of time till they find their way into the apartment itself.

No idea how they end up there. There's no water standing in there, so it's not like they're hatching and just hanging around.

Every once in a while I'll hose the area down with Raid, but it doesn't seem to do much. Anyone encountered something similar and found a way to get rid of the little bastards?

flamethrower?

flamethrower?

Want to trade 10 mosquitoes for 1 bed bug?

Skin so soft - smells like baby powder on steroids. Not so bad, but you definitely have to weigh it against the bites. I choose the Sss.

That is the perfect description of the smell of skin so soft.

I get HORRIBLE reactions to mosquitoes, always have and probably always will. I was in Texas last summer, in the middle of torrential rains/excessive heat and humidity and my boyfriend's mother saw me scratching my legs until they bled. In her infinite wisdom, she thought it would be a good idea to put a numbing agent on the bites. I used a baby's teething gel, and then tried Anbesol, which didn't work too well so I went back to a teething gel for babies. Perhaps it's psychosomatic, but I feel much better about the summer now that I have partial relief from mosquito bites.

and sorry about the bedbugs! Ain't no quick cure for those besides sealing your bed and doing some major damage control on all your clothes, bedding and living space.

Gonna sound weird-but, put anti perspirant right on the bug bites (solid or roll on, any brand). It kills the itching immediately!

I read about this somewhere recently and it works like a charm!

I use Off....works for me or Avon Skin So Soft

Subject: I attract mosquito

I just went lunch with 10 people from work and I got bitten like 15 places on my lower legs while eating. I did not wanted to be rude so I could not leave but it was so hard to just sit down to wait them to devoure me. Nobody else were bitten and my legs are now very itchey and swelling. It always happen to me! Damn mosquitos!!

I know this is an old thread, but the info is really good ^^

AND!!!!

It's official, they're baaaaaaaaaaaack!

found one in my bathroom. It was trying to catch me with my pants down :shock: I sent the boyfriend in to kill it! :twisted:

Better than the SCARY millipied my roommate killed last night. She knows me so well now that she just stood up calmly, said "don't move" and went to get a paper towel. Then I saw the thing - HUGE pincher looking thing with a billion legs defiling my ottoman. EESH!!!!!!!!!!!

anyone ever tried the nosquito, or something of the like?

I'm like gretch, apparently a huge biting bug magnet! SSS helps some, but they get me in my sleep! We will never keep them all out and try as he might, the dog can't catch them all. As much as I hate mosquito bites (and the huge itchy and somtimes painful welts they leave on me for weeks), fire ant bites hurt so much more and the fact that Brooklyn does not have them is it's best feature for me

For the itchy bites I've been using Sarna which seems to be in most drug stores.

I am msierable with bites. We spent the weekend slightly upstate at a friend's lakehouse. There is an outside fireplace and we were hanging outside in the evening even though the outside temperature had dropped. What a mistake. In the middle of the night I woke up itchy.. most especially the ankles and feet. Sorry to hear I would have done no better in Brooklyn.

Old fashioned cure for itchy.. spray the bites with windex! I am sure it is the alchohol that quiets the itch but this does work.

scarlett wrote: Better than the SCARY millipied my roommate killed last night. She knows me so well now that she just stood up calmly, said "don't move" and went to get a paper towel. Then I saw the thing - HUGE pincher looking thing with a billion legs defiling my ottoman. EESH!!!!!!!!!!!

I hate those things, but seriously, you're better off shoo-ing it back into a crevice. Those things take care of just about every other bug.

Really? Well he was slithering on my ottoman under my feet and we don't really have any cracks-I mean we must because he was in there, but it's a new reno so i don't know how he got in-- and I was freaking out.