Mosquito's Everywhere!

Werewolf said:
i#m not sure about the dead ones attracting others (although iirc it's certainly the case with some wasps releasing a chemical on death).

I remember reading that if you eat plenty of vitamin B it puts them off, so my marmite habit is possibly serving me well...
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I am not sure its wasps that do that (although they may do) I watched a program on national geographic last week about killer bee's, and when they sting someone, they leave their barb in you, they have to sever their torso to remove it, killing them, but sending a signal to other bee's to attack. The bee's can follow a target for over a mile, and if you jump in a pond or something, they will wait for up to an hour for you to come out and continue to attack you.

Bees are hardcore.
 
G|mp said:
Eat lots of garlic they dont like garlic i read somewhere
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Read that too, do the italians get bitten much? When I went to northern italy a few years back it was boiling, kept getting bitten by the things. Imagine how hot it would be in southern italy :eek:
 
I find mosquitoes never come in my room as long as my lights off, the light from the computer doesnt seem to be strong enough and turning the light off seems to be the easiest solution aslong as long you can live with it
 
sWiZzLe said:
When i left Rwanda a few months back, something i was so happy to leave behind were bloody mosquitos! (Partially because the buggers gave me malaria around 20 times :().

This last week i've been getting constantly bitten by them and i can't take it much longer.

Don't spose anyone can recommend a good device or way of killing or repelling them from my room (for starters), i really dont want to have to cover myself in repellent all the time, that stuff stinks!

Problem is, my room gets a bit warm when my pc is on, so i have to open the window, letting in all the ******* :(
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Aldi do this door/window mesh.

Comes with special sticky-one-side, special velcro(doesn't tear material apart) velcro style stuff on the other.

You just stick it to the frame, then open window and attach the mesh, which is black so you don't really see it.

Then take it off later as it's only velcro.


We made a frame out of plastic though for ease of use which just slots into the window frame.
 
Plenty of mozzies this year due to the odd weather, presumably?

I hate the things... They were so bad in Florida, I wanted to arm myself with a flamethrower in order to kill as many as possible.
 
Liverpool-Lad said:
Nor me to be honest. Mate got bitten loads when we went to America but I got off scot free!
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It's not a case of feeling the pain/itch of being bitten. Some people have such a low histamine response to insect bites they often won't realise that they have been bitten.

It's not the bite that gives you the little red lump and discomfort, it's your body's own reaction to it.
 
They don't like Thiamin, which is in Marmite. However, if you read wiki and do some maths, it seems a bit lame.

from wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiamine said:
Thiamine as an insect repellent

Some studies suggest that taking thiamine (vitamin B1) 25 mg to 50 mg three times per day is effective in reducing mosquito bites. A large intake of Thiamine produces a skin odor that is not detectable by humans, but is disagreeable to female mosquitoes.[6] Thiamine takes more than 2 weeks before the odor fully saturates the skin. With the advances in topical preparations there is an increasing number of Thiamine based repellent products. Whilst there is considerable anecdotal evidence of Thiamine products being effective in the field (Australia, US and Canada), there has yet to be any clinical trials run to demonstrate the efficacy of these products.
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25 to 50mg three times/day !!!

Lets say we need 35 mg 3/day
Marmite has 0.23mg of Thiamin per 4g serving.
You'll need 152, 4g servings for your 35mg of Thiamin.
152*4 = 608g of marmite. And you need 3 times that per day...

Oh, and 2 weeks to saturate your skin.
I also read somewhere that excess Thiamin is excreted through your urine mostly, not the skin. That's probably why you need to eat so much.
(someone correct me if i'm wrong on the calculations ^^)
 
JIM_BOB7813 said:
They don't like Thiamin, which is in Marmite. However, if you read wiki and do some maths, it seems a bit lame.

from wikipedia
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25 to 50mg three times/day !!!

Lets say we need 35 mg 3/day
Marmite has 0.23mg of Thiamin per 4g serving.
You'll need 152, 4g servings for your 35mg of Thiamin.
152*4 = 608g of marmite. And you need 3 times that per day...

Oh, and 2 weeks to saturate your skin.
I also read somewhere that excess Thiamin is excreted through your urine mostly, not the skin. That's probably why you need to eat so much.
(someone correct me if i'm wrong on the calculations ^^)
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You can therefore only assume that the marmite theory is spot on, you'd repel pretty much all mosquitoes after 1.8kg of marmite per day. Along with most other living beings.
 
I simply can not believe - living in Manchester - that I found a mosquito attacking me last night. Such high pitched "dive-bombing" attacks could not have been anything else. I remember the sound well from my time in Korea.

Suffice to say the defcon level has been raised and AA (with anti-mozzie rounds) have been deployed.
 
Ugh, the very worst sound is not lying in bed in the dark, and realising a mosquito is near you.
It's not when you realise it's getting louder and sounds more like a B52 bomber every second.
It's not when it occasionally passes your ear.

It's when the noise stops.

Those little wonders blessed me with malaria twice as a kid.
 
El Gringo said:
You can therefore only assume that the marmite theory is spot on, you'd repel pretty much all mosquitoes after 1.8kg of marmite per day. Along with most other living beings.
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im pretty certain you would also die after eating that much marmite

that much has the equivalent of like 200+ grams of salt, plus the vitamin overload from all that marmite would also probably kill you :D
 
Oops.. just googled it and you are correct.

Must have been someone trying to sell the pills telling me that load of ball cocks.
 
Mosquitos have never bothered me but the midge is a different beast entirely, for some reason they like to chew on me every chance they get. I'm not sure if it'll work on mosquitos but the midge hates it and leaves me at peace when it's applied - Avon Skin-So-Soft.
 
Goodwin said:
Didn't think we got mosquitos here, midges yes but mossies no?
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That's what I thought as well, but they have been predicting that mossies would appear down south because of global warming.

Jokester
 
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