Mosquitos

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 1:41 am

AAAAARRGHHH! I've already killed dozens of them, and yet there are still at least 10 alive! (but out of reach) And that's just this small bedroom! (hundreds in the living room) Where did they all suddenly come from? Yesterday I could only find one in the whole house...

DrJoeTr0n · Post by **DrJoeTr0n** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 10:24 am

Do you have a pond located in the middle of your bedroom? That might be apart of the problem.

Sabarai · Post by **Sabarai** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 10:53 am

LOL, I don't know Jonathan.. I'm not bothered by them; they haven't bit me in years

Did you know that mosquitos go after stench?

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 11:43 am

Here's a step by step algorithm:
1. Go to a public park or swimming pool, some place a lot of girls* showing lots of skin
2. Select one that has lots of mosquito bites (take care not to confuse it with acne...)
3. Hit on her
4. If that did not work, repeat 2 or 1 if the location of your choice ran out of girls. If it worked, continue with 5
5. take her home
6. all the mosquitos will bite her and not you

That works for me, although I'm now in the lucky position of not having to do 1 to 5

Another easy trick is not to clean your room too thoroughly. That way, you'll always have some spiders taking care of everything small and buzzing, yum.

*or boys, of course, depending on your preferences

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 2:46 pm

DrJoeTr0n: nope.

Sab: Luckily almost the same for me. But >20 (as it turned out...) of them zooming around is even annoying if they don't bite. Stench? Nah.

z-man: LOL. This is not my usual location and there are some spiders, but they got only a few. I couldn't reach the mosquitos because they were sitting/flying at the highest part of the sloped ceiling, 3.5 m above me.

Phytotron · Post by **Phytotron** » Mon Jun 27, 2005 4:30 pm

Eat a lot of bananas.

n54 · Post by **n54** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 3:38 am

stop eating

really

(female) mosquitos have excellent taste and will always go for the blood with the highest level of blood-sugar (that's all they want after all) they need your blood for their children while the males go on happily sucking fruit juice at the nearest shrubbery

so starve yourself and they are likely to suck someone else instead

seriously: drinking water instead of soda might be all it takes
practically: get mosquito netting (i live by a park and it helps a lot against all kinds of bugs/wasps/mosquitos/nightswarmers/moths etc.)

root down · Post by **root down** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 4:06 am

if you stop eating long enough, you'll die
just thought you should know

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 4:13 am

really: Good plan.
seriously: Pretty much in that direction already. I don't really like soda similar stuff for other food.
practically: There are ZERO here and I didn't expect the whole house to be filled there with hundreds of them (not joking).

They didn't pick me.

Post by **Lucifer** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 4:59 am

Move to a higher altitude?

Ummm, carb cleaner is the best way I know of to kill mosquitos and prevent them from coming back, the only catch is that you have to ventilate the area pretty well or you might kill yourself.

We were having a mosquito problem for awhile ourselves. What we have right now, though, is a fly problem. Mostly because my wife picked up a dead snake and threw it in the trash where it decomposed for almost a week before the trashman came, and where there's dead meat, there's flies. So we're on this rampage right now to clean up every little crumb in the house (an intimidating task in a house with small children that are still learning how to use silverware). I don't really want to have to resort to using a fly swatter. I don't want to kill the little buggers, just get them out of the house.

Anyway, I don't know any non-violent way to get rid of mosquitos, other than to drain any pools and other standing water (or chlorinate them, depends on why the standing water is there). Inside the house, if there are as many as you have, I think you're going to have to mass murder the poor little guys to get rid of them. Or resign yourself to living with mosquitos for three or four months while you find a nicer way to get rid of them.

In my own experience, the aerosols and stuff they sell for you to get rid of mosquitos don't work. That's why I ultimately found the carb cleaner solution (mosquitos and bees are both attracted to brake fluid, and when I was working in the brake shop I picked up two skills. The ability to swat a bee with a shop towel, and a pretty thorough knowledge of which automotive chemicals kill mosquitos).

DrJoeTr0n · Post by **DrJoeTr0n** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 6:29 am

Suck their blood! Show'em who's boss! They will understand what they have been doing to you. They will change there ways, possibly and leave a post it note on your coffee table saying "Sorry Bud, We'll buy you a burger sometime and we will call it squarsies."

DrJoeTr0n · Post by **DrJoeTr0n** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 6:29 am

Suck their blood! Show'em who's boss! They will understand what they have been doing to you. They will change there ways, possibly and leave a post-it note on your coffee table saying "Sorry Bud, We'll buy you a burger sometime and we will call it squarsies."

Sabarai · Post by **Sabarai** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:06 am

It's not the bloodsucking what matters, it's the itch...

Post by **dlh** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 10:40 am

Sabarai wrote:It's not the bloodsucking what matters, it's the itch...

Its worse if you itch it, just build up enough self-control not to itch the bite.

Post by **Lucifer** » Tue Jun 28, 2005 11:36 am

Yeah, don't scratch it either.