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thisbenzingring ,

if your skin isn’t bothered, anything with DEET is by far the most effective

The Ologies podcast has a great episode on Mosquitos that might help. The host talks to a mosquito scientist about what works and what doesnt and why. www.alieward.com/ologies/culicidology

tobogganablaze ,

If i can’t stop them biting me, the next best thing is to stop them biting me a second time.

But you can stop (most of) them!

My strategy is to deploy their nature enemies into my house. That includes a ground level strike team of two cats that will attack and kill anything that crawls and for support from above you want to corners between walls and ceiling covered with as many spiders as possible.

I’ve only been bitten once this year!

slorcher ,

You need to buy Sawyer picaridin lotion. It’s the most effective mosquito repellent I have found. I use it in high alpine environments where you can be swarmed by literally hundreds of mosquitos.

Kolanaki ,
@Kolanaki@yiffit.net avatar

Eat a lot of onion and garlic. Eat fewer fruits like bananas.

SharkEatingBreakfast ,
@SharkEatingBreakfast@sopuli.xyz avatar

I thought it was more common, but mosquito bites do not effect me, and I only get bit very very occasionally. My kid, on the other hand, gets eaten by mosquitoes and has a very harsh reaction.

What would cause mosquitoes to naturally not want to bite me & no itching/bumps/reaction to their bites?

Sylvartas ,

For the no itching/bumps part, I think the absence of an immune system reaction (or a weak one) will do that

FuglyDuck ,
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world avatar

So one thing to prevent the first is to mask/change your odor. Booze increases bites, sitting and smelling of smoke (including things like wood camp fire smoke,) will mask you; sugary things increase. Soaps and shampoos depend on the product.

Those coils or citronella can drive them off. The noise thingies too.

Junkhead ,

dunno if it affected it or not but i was tripping massive balls on lsd and a mosquito sucked blood from me and seemed to get distorted and not be able to fly right lmfao

mvirts ,

You could look for inspiration at pet flea and tick products

HootinNHollerin ,

Menthol oil

Anticorp ,

I think sugar makes you more attractive to mosquitoes. I know from first-hand experience that if you’re always hung over, and you smoke cigarettes, then the city mosquitos will leave you alone. The high country mosquitos don’t give a fuck though, they’ll take whatever they can get. Otherwise you want 97% DEET. Don’t bother with any other stuff, it doesn’t work. 97% DEET! Someone’s going to come along and say “nooo, skin so soft mixed with water repels mosquitoes!”. They’re liars. 97% DEET.

scrion ,

DEET works, but is also not exactly healthy and does irritate both skin and mucus membranes. Also, applying DEET over sunscreen reduces the effect of the sunscreen by about 30%. Unless you are in a tropical environment with dangers of Malaria carrying insects, (P)Icaridin is a good alternative:

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25936273/

www.sciencedirect.com/topics/…/icaridin

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25522134/

academic.oup.com/jtm/article/25/…/4990399

Anticorp ,

I never had any success with it. It might work in the cities, and populated areas where the mosquitoes have other easy options, but literally the only thing that has ever worked reliably for me in the mountains is 97% DEET. Even the lesser concentration of it, I think it’s 36%, didn’t work. I’ve tried just about everything trying to get away from DEET, and none of it works reliably. If mosquitoes are bothering me in town it’s usually enough to just wear one of those electric repellers that make dragonfly noises, but I only bother with that if I’m out golfing or something, and they’re not particularly bad there. Wherever they’re out in force, I whip out the DEET. Forewarning though, don’t spray it on polyester because it can melt it, and like you said, keep it away from eyes, nose, and lips. We spray it onto our hand and then wipe it onto our face and ears.

Ferris ,

what noise does a dragonfly make?

Fondots ,

Purely annecdotally, picaridin has worked as well or better than DEET for me. I barely get bitten when I use it, and I usually get bitten up pretty badly when I use DEET (though less than when I don’t use it)

I also find picaridin bug spray to not feel greasy and has less odor than deet, which is nice.

DEET is also fairly toxic to dogs (and cats, but I don’t have one of those) and while it’s not licensed for use on dogs, it doesn’t appear to be toxic to them, which I appreciate as a dog owner (I’m unsure about cats, that info seemed less readily available but I also didn’t put much effort into finding it)

TootSweet ,

Not a doctor. Really don’t do/consume anything on the basis of what you hear on Lemmy.

But maybe the bacillus thuringiensis toxin? Bacillus thuringiensis is a bacterium that produces a natural pesticide that I’ve heard (again, not a doctor, don’t take anything I say as medical advice) doesn’t affect vertibrates. But mosquitos aren’t vertibrates. So, (again, not an expert and this may be bullshit) maybe that means it’s safe for humans to use.

But what do I mean by “use”? I’m guessing it might (not a doctor) be safe to use on the skin (if it could be obtained in medical-grade quality – but I’m not an expert).

But I kindof doubt (though I could be wrong) that eating bacillus thurengiensis or the actual toxin would work. The toxin is (I believe, just from reading the bacillus thuringiensis Wikipedia page) a protein, and I don’t think (ɹoʇɔop ɐ ʇou ɯɐ I) consumed proteins are likely to get into the bloodstream. (And if they did, I suspect (though I am not a doctor) that would cause you some problems, or at least an immune response and some inflamation or some such.)

Munkisquisher ,

Before consuming Bug Powder Dust, read or watch Naked Lunch to know what you are in for

NegativeLookBehind ,
@NegativeLookBehind@lemmy.world avatar

Have you tried covering yourself in a uranium based slurry?

Xanthrax ,
@Xanthrax@lemmy.world avatar

When you’re out, use DEET and cover yourself. Try to only apply it to your clothes. It’s toxic to humans. Are you out a lot? If so, I’d be worried about ticks and poisonous plants as well.

If you have control of the land around you, make sure there’s no stagnant water nearby. If you want to keep a pond, manage your mosquito population using local species if possible. In some places, you can also report stagnant bodies of water.

If they’re inside, check your window screens. If you can’t afford that, use a mosquito net and check my first answers.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA ,
@HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world avatar

I do three things and mosquitos avoid me: I eat a ton of garlic, I take a ton of drugs, and I smoke a ton of weed. My blood is semisolid.

mecfs ,

After I got long covid mosquitos stopped trying to eat me lol.

So maybe sickness helps idk.

Paragone ,

DEET is the only chemical that I know-of which they HATE.

I use mosquito-netting to keep them away from me.

I don’t want DEET touching me, at all, ever again.

No, I’m not a mosquito.

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