jt-2007
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posted on August 4, 2001 02:42:06 AM
Someone please help me! I need Amazon explorers, Vietnam Vets, and entomologist!
There is a mosquito in my bedroom that is feasting on us everynight! It's 4:35 am AGAIN and I have had no more then 10 minutes sleep at a time in days! If we turn the light on, it vanishes. If I put on mosquito spray it will bite me anywhere I can't put it like my eyelids. HELP ME!
Should we set the house on fire and smoke it out?
If we move out of the bedroom, how long will it take him to starve TO DEATH?
What is his STUPID life span if he is OBESE but extremely physically fit?
Is there ANY WAY TO KILL this @#&%$*@?
I am sorry to put this in the Ebay Outlook but this is affecting my business and my sanity! I need mega high traffic web hit help. PLEASE help me.
T
~delete apostrophe.
[ edited by jt on Aug 4, 2001 02:44 AM ]
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tsunamii
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posted on August 4, 2001 03:07:34 AM
I hate those boogers ! If it is a male mosquito the average lifespan is 10 days. If it is a female mosquito it can live up to 100 days. It depends on your climate too. If you want to drive it out of your bedroom, burn some citronella candles and leave the door open. If you want a natural remedy to keep it from biting you there are a few things you can do. I use about a teaspoon of essence of citronella mixed with a half cup of vegetable or olive oil if I have to go outside when they are out. It also acts a moisturizer. Kinda gross but it works. You can also use essence of peppermint. Eating kyolic garlic pills help too but you might not smell too great in a few weeks. I'm allergic to the commercial sprays like "Off" and I actually found the natural mixes work much better. They hate the smell. Hope this helps a little bit.
Karen
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tsunamii
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posted on August 4, 2001 03:09:11 AM
I forgot to say that if you use the oil mixtures spread it very thin. You don't need to use the entire amount at once.
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MurphyBird
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posted on August 4, 2001 03:33:27 AM
Don't they have mosquito traps? Little trays that are sticky and when they land on it, they can't get back off?
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NothingYouNeed
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posted on August 4, 2001 03:36:36 AM
I think you are dreaming. The big fat blood sucking mosquito is eBay chomping on your bank account.
Gerald
"Oh but it's so hard to live by the rules/I never could and still never do."
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labrat4gmos
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posted on August 4, 2001 05:55:49 AM
Hi,
While the "Frankenscientists" can't help you on this guy, they are trying for the future!
Transgenic ones! Florescent mosquitos, so you can see them. Ones that can't reproduce. Others.
Of course, no one knows what will happen to the wildlife feeding on said mosquitos. Heck, they probably don't know if we will end up with more diseases when bitten.
Or if super mosquitos will develop, as transgenic brassica family weeds (canola) have done.
Should take one last look before swatting, it's probably an endanagered species already. I know one transgenic batch was let loose in one of the southern states already. Louisiana?
[ edited by labrat4gmos on Aug 4, 2001 05:59 AM ]
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jt-2007
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posted on August 4, 2001 06:31:43 AM
While citronella gives me a headache of earthquake magnitude, we do have west nile virus in our area.
I was sort of hoping for some "magical jungle technique".
I don't think mosquitos go to glue traps, only flies. What about a bug light? I could put that in my bedroom.
ZAP-ZAP-ZAP-ZAP
Or that might just attact other flying things. 
I am getting very SLEEPY.
T
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sosoal
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posted on August 4, 2001 07:48:46 AM
What you're dealing with is a sinister variety of mosquito known unscientifically as a "Culicidae vampirus suckaubloodae" They are common in most southern states from Florida to Texas. Texans claim theirs are the biggest...everything in Texas is bigger.
Here's what to do: Wear a necklace made of garlic cloves to bed every night. To permanently rid yourself of this horror, you
must fashion a wooden stake out of a toothpick and use it to pierce the monsters heart. Don't get confused as I did! I tried to shoot mine with a silver BB, only to discover that only works on Wolf Spiders.
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jcmaya
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posted on August 4, 2001 08:04:46 AM
How about some mosquito netting around your bed? I have seen some for sale at Ikea, but that was a while ago.
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sulyn1950
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posted on August 4, 2001 08:33:16 AM
I have heard that Avon's Skin So Soft really turns misquitos off and it is actually good for your skin!
When my child was an infant, we thought he had gotten the chicken pox. Turned out to be mosquito bites that he had a reaction to!
I was told by the DR to turn the light off and close the door to his room about 15-30 minutes before putting him down to sleep. Then I was to take a flashlight into the room (leaving the overhead/lamps OFF) and do a search and destroy by flashlight alone...mosquitos like to "rest" high up on the wall near the ceiling. So we would go in and run the light around the top of the wall and sure enough we'd find some of the little demons and swat them with a flyswatter (couldn't use sprays cause of the baby).
We did this as a nightly routine until baby outgrew the drastic reaction to the bites so we could slack off on our night raids! We live in an area where the darn things go almost all year long!
Good luck!!
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auctionhound23
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posted on August 4, 2001 08:40:12 AM
Backpackers swear by Avon's 'Skin So Soft'.
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sparkz
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posted on August 4, 2001 09:05:31 AM
Terri
There are ultrasonic repellant devices you can use to keep them out of a room. Just don't be tempted to open it and try to modify it. If it gets retuned to the wrong frequency, if will act as an attractant. I've also heard that "Skin So Soft" works great.
The light at the end of the tunnel will turn out to be an oncoming train.
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sosoal
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posted on August 4, 2001 12:18:48 PM
Skin So Soft is a myth. It'll just make you soft and juicy. No respectable jungle explorer would be caught with that.
DDT used to be real good but it's no longer available. I would run through clouds of the stuff when I was a kid growing up on a banana plantation. The planes would drop tons of it regularly. It never harmed any of my three arms or two heads. 
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MrsSantaClaus
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posted on August 5, 2001 09:39:11 PM
Are you by chance wearing perfume to bed - or scented deodorant? They will be drawn to the perfume smell.
Also, bugs are attracted to bright colors.
The ZAPPPERS are incredible - my parents have them outside and they work wonders.
As a former favorite feast for mosquitos, I can feel for you. Mom's remedy to stop the itch: (which will work if you are allergic to commercial stuff) Take a fingernail and make an x over the center of the bite. Apply spit to your finger, then the bite. It will actually stop the itching for awhile! Good thing is, you always have spit and your fingernails with you, no matter where you go 
Sorry if it sounds gross, but it is better than itching!
And, Skin So Soft does work.
BECKY
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joice
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posted on August 5, 2001 09:43:00 PM
Hello jt,
I worked the last 2 days and left this thread alive for you, but I must lock it now as it truly isn't Ebay related.
Please post in the Round Table if you think you need more help.
Good luck!
Joice
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