Kanadians..wat up wid di maskita dem..baxide

[evanovitch]

mi cannot get to do anyting outside..dem juss swarm like dem a posse to rahtid...front an bak...mi ha plants fi put een, mi want clean off di deck n is like dem a pay rent di way dem heng bout...is like whirlpool wen u see dem

mi tek di dawg fi walk n mi swear seh dem sen message ahead cause is juss swarm to swarm to swarm mi a walk tru...mi arms full a bite n not one a dem ha any blood eena dem

mi seriously a tink bout lite fyah fi try do some yaad work but di way di place dry it not even feasible...wat oonoo do fi get ovah dem maskita dem yah

[Stormmey]

Re: Kanadians..wat up wid di maskita dem..baxide

forget about the advertised mosquito repellant..... just use Listerine mouth wash.....it is great you can spray the deck......the grass area.....around doors any place mosquito is likely to come in thoough it works like a charm. My house backs onto a wooded/forest area and the listerine works like a charm.

btw.... if it is not Listerine it does not work.

[evanovitch]

Re: Kanadians..wat up wid di maskita dem..baxide

tonx mi a try it..cause mi an dem naw gree none tall

[johnnycakes]

Re: Kanadians..wat up wid di maskita dem..baxide

Anything I Googled on this Listerine against mosquitoes thing says it will kill them only if you hit them with the liquid Listerine because of all the alcohol in it.

Several others said that it might work short term because of the Eucalyptol in it which is also in some repellants but this also was dubious because eucalyptol (sp?) runs in the 20% range in repellents and less than 1% in Listerine.

Better to drink the bokkle of Listerine and get drunk on all that alcohol and you won't feel a thing.

In the past few years my body chemistry has changed and now I can feel when a mosquito is biting me but the bites never raise a bump and never itch.

My wife gets a mosquito bite and itches for three days.so now I get to do all the yard work.

As for repellent for mosquitoes- and Evanovitch don't you find that the mosquitoes in Canada are much worse than in Jamaica? - almost any repellent with even very low amounts of DEET are always effective against mosquitoes.

Those people living on the North Atlantic coast of the U.S and inland from Maine and north can also testify to the unstoppability of greenhead and black flies.when they are in season.

I've seen a family pull into a parking lot at a Cape Cod beach in greenhead fly season., get all their beach stuff out; food, big umbrella, blanket etc get down on the sand, set up long enough (2-3 minutes) for the flies to find them and bite them and they were packed up and out of there in less than ten minutes.

Give me mosquitoes every time.

[mangoskin]

Re: Kanadians..wat up wid di maskita dem..baxide

wow....wuss dan Falmouth?!

[MsPeaches]

Re: Kanadians..wat up wid di maskita dem..baxide

When I lived in Canada I used to spend summer weekends at a remote lake in the mountains 'across the river'. The mosquitoes at the lake were worrisome sometimes but the ones in the city were really unbearable!!!

But they weren't as clever as mosquitoes in Jamaica. If you tried to chase one of those ones she immediately dropped straight down to the floor where you couldn't see her.

It's true that some years they bite you and others they don't seem to, also true that some are allergic to them and others not. But I have heard that mega-dosing on Vitamin C makes you less of a target. And it would certainly subdue the allergies in those troubled that way.

Might be worth a try.

At least you won't get Malaria like you would here.

Anybody for an insecticide-treated bednet??