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shmokes:
Ahhh . . . . I moved into a new place about a month ago and the mosquitoes are SOOOO bad.  I don't know why they're so bad.  There's a swimming pool on the property, but the water circulates regularly and a pool guy comes weekly to maintain the chemicals and so on so I can't imagine that's the breeding ground.  They're driving me ---smurfing--- nuts.  I get bitten every single day at least a couple times.  Over the last hour or so I was sitting at my computer with my shirt off and all the while one of the little ---smurfs--- was having a ---fracking--- party on my back.  I got 17 bites.  God . . . I'm getting so angry about it, but I don't know what to do.  I'm not going to keep myself covered in bug spray 24 hours a day.  And from what it looks like the only really effective mosquito traps are the Mosquito Magnets which cost like $500.  Don't get me wrong . . . if it took care of the problem it would be $500 well spent, but I can't afford that.

Does anyone else have mosquito trouble?  Know of any inexpensive method for dealing with them -- ESPECIALLY indoors?  If I'm going out I can always spray myself with bug spray, but I'm not going to do that when I'm planning to stay indoors.  I know some people swear by eating lots of garlic, but I've read a few university studies that strongly suggest that this is a complete myth.

tommy:
Nothing you can do, that's the Florida heat and humidity for you and mosquitoes come out at night all year long. Don't sit with no shirt on and do not open your doors or windows, turn on the A/C. Enjoy.

I guess when you were thinking of moving here you did not read the documentation that says "Florida, damn mosquitoes".

polaris:
tonic water, add some gin and you wont care either way, the quinine in the tonic water works apparently. its what the brits drank during their occupation of india. hence the popularity of gin and tonic.

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: polaris on December 25, 2007, 06:04:12 am ---tonic water, add some gin and you wont care either way, the quinine in the tonic water works apparently. its what the brits drank during their occupation of india. hence the popularity of gin and tonic.

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that won't stop him getting bitten though. and since malaria is pretty rare in the US, it won;t really help with that either...

shmokes, apparently mossies track carbon dioxide emissions to find their prey. all you have to do is stop breathing  ;D

shmokes:

--- Quote from: tommy on December 25, 2007, 12:54:43 am ---Nothing you can do, that's the Florida heat and humidity for you and mosquitoes come out at night all year long. Don't sit with no shirt on and do not open your doors or windows, turn on the A/C. Enjoy.

I guess when you were thinking of moving here you did not read the documentation that says "Florida, damn mosquitoes".

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They're actually MUCH MUCH worse at my new house than they were at my old house.  The two places are only about a half mile apart.  They must be breeding nearby.

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