How do I stop the mosquitoes attacking me?

Smoke. Or there are wrist band thingies you can get from chemists, which are actually quite effective.

smoking is cooler and harder

Posted over 3 years ago by Spammed

Bah, I’ve only just got used to not smoking. I think I could cope with a wrist band though, will try it out :)

Ta muchly

Posted over 3 years ago by widget

If you know anybody who’s going to Turkey on holiday, get them to get you some of the spray they use over there. I can’t remember its name but if the people are going to anywhere near Dalaman they’re sure to have it. It’s not an aerosol but you push the top down to spray it. When you go to certain restaurants over there, if you’re sitting outside they even spray you with it! It probably would fail all safety tests over here but we didn’t get any nasty effects. It’s also extremely cheap so make sure they get lots of bottles.

And as for using a mossie net in your room, why not use one of the plug-in jobbies where you use a new tablet every night? They work a treat (Mrs Pottytime seems like a honeypot to Mozzies and yet doesn’t get bitten at all).

Posted over 3 years ago by pottytime

Try taking a vitamin B supplement, apparently mozzies don`t like the smell of your skin (an effect something similar to marmite!). Tee Tree oil applied to exposed parts can be useful, slightly better smelling than marmite and cheaper than going to Turkey.

Posted over 3 years ago by spanky

Not sure if this works on our UK mozzies but while in Kenya, I was advised to take one of those little garlic pill like things daily to keep away the local mozzies. I did and it did indeed work, where as my colleague said it was a rubbish idea and ended up looking like a dart board after a championship.

Worth a try?

Let me know.

Posted over 3 years ago by cobo04

I’ve just found a bottle of the stuff I was trying to think of. It’s called SinKov and it comes in 100ml bottles. Men tend not to get attacked as much as women do and so some of the suggestions given above may not be as successful on the fairer sex as they are on us other lot…

Posted over 3 years ago by pottytime

Citronella’s fairly effective. You can buy it in candle form.

Posted over 3 years ago by mollusk

Appeal to their better nature. Draw them into your web of comfortable acquiescence to the social norms of not biting the fuck out of us all the bastard time. And then when their senses are dulled by their new life on Easy Street, spray the motherflumping lot of ‘em.

They, apparently, don’t like it up ‘em.

Or stick with the net.

Either really.

Posted over 3 years ago by Ko

This review of peer-reviewed research studies by Mark S. Fradin suggests treating your net with permethrin.

Posted over 3 years ago by pato

I love the Internet.

Posted over 3 years ago by pato

Never mind the bollocks and crack open the fags

Posted over 3 years ago by Spammed

What I want to know is when the fuck did we start getting mossies in the uK? I never remember seeing them as a kid yet in the pub yesterday there were literally ones of them!

i still prefer them to wasps i like bees though just not wasps

Posted over 3 years ago by Morals

Wow, thanks everyone, I think I’m going to go for broke and try a combination of most of those, combined with my patented ‘hit them with a big heavy book’ technique (except for the smoking, Spammed, although if it gets really bad I may ask the boyfriend to sit next to me while he smokes, then I get my passive smoke fix and a handy mozzie repellent. You can’t get a good smoke fug going now the ban’s in place).

Pato: That article’s great, lots of useful tips, I too love the internet.

Ko: I don’t think vicious blood-sucking little beasties have a better nature.

Morals: I hope you whacked that one in the pub with something heavy – every little helps.

hit them with a book not a first edition please i hate wasps too what is the point of them

Posted over 3 years ago by widget

@Widget – don’t worry, the mossie is definitely dead. I didn’t have a book with me, and I wasn’t going to mess up the big wodge of guitar tab I had lying on the table, but he got a good thwack with the back of my hand. The bastard.

tried to suck my blood in the pub would have been one very pissed little mossie

Posted over 3 years ago by Morals

Ko: I don’t think vicious blood-sucking little beasties have a better nature.

I saw Peter Mandleson pat an orphan once.

Posted over 3 years ago by Ko

In that case I stand corrected.

(Oh, and excellent work Morals, gold star for you)

get the mozzies drunk they wont be able to find me

Posted over 3 years ago by widget

To be fair, now I think more about it, I think he may have eaten the poor lad later.

Posted over 3 years ago by Ko

I would point out that’s slanderous, but it’s probably true….

Posted over 3 years ago by Morals

Mozzies hate quinine, which is in tonic water. Drink lots of G&Ts. I’ve spent lots of time in mozzie heavy countries and this never failed to work.

Posted over 3 years ago by vapourtrail

Excellent, an excuse to drink yet more G&Ts is just what I needed. Roll on summer :)

pissed mosquitoes

Posted over 3 years ago by widget