How do you keep mosquitoes from biting you?

[satay]

Citronella oil out side the house in a lamp works great here and we have a product called "off" doesn't stink like most repellants do. As for garlic .. I eat heaps of it and they still chew me all summer long.

 

[NurseELB]

Don't eat bananas! Our family only eats bananas in the winter because we'd all be eaten alive otherwise. There was some study done a ling time ago about what it does to make you smell 'tastier' to mosquitoes.
Dryer sheets, or lemon balm rubbed over your skin both work. I still use Skin So Soft when we camp because I am so susceptible.
There is someone on this site that sells Watkins Vanilla, I remember seeing it in their sig line. (just can't remember who right now)

 

[Birdgirl]

only females bite you and they prefer blondes! and dont like garlic so dye your hair if your blonde and eat garlic

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! I found that for me, simply taking an extra B12 every day in mosquito season is an effective repellant. Mosquitoes will hover and seldom land. If they land, they don't bite.
Hubby sitting right next to me outside, gets eaten up (He poo-poo's the 'B12 theory' even though he's seen it in action for years. I think it was Roberta on gardenweb that brought it to my attention. Thanks Friend, where ever you are!)

Lisa

 

[chickaddict]

disguise yourself to smell like a tree. I know it sounds crazy, but the little buggers find you by the carbon dioxide you breathe out. I had purchased a cedar and sandlewood spray at a natural food store - used it as a bug spray because of what I learned on
animal Planet.

I survived a week of cub scout day camp without getting a single bite. By Wednesday everyone was using it.

 

[Intheswamp]

The best bug juice that I've found...even seems better than, ahem...deet is "Skeeter Ban". I found it at Walmart a couple of years ago and found some this past winter for $1 a bottle...needless to say I bought a couple of bottles in December. It's all natural and basically just a little bit spritzed here and there and your good to go. Note the username.

 

[geepy]

Stay inside and don't get near them.

 

[Imp]

Quote:
It is jendh.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=338023&p=1

Imp

 

[crazyaboutchickens]

spray mouthwash on you like perfume always does it for me

 

[aprophet]

I grow lots of catnip when I go out in the yard I grab a handful and rub it on my arms and hands and neck they come close but do land on me I think Ohio state is getting a patent on the ingredient of the catnip that keeps them away