natural mosquito repellent

[Urban X]

Do you eat lots of garlic? Not sure of exactly what other menu items but I do recall reading somewhere that diet has a lot to do with your attraction/repelling of them.

Yeah I eat a fair amount of garlic I spose but I've never really been bitten much even as a kid when I hated garlic and 'foreign food', I always put it down to my blood group but it could well be something else that I eat? Definately not marmite though, can't abide the stuff. Perhaps they do bite and I just dont react to the bites, I've never really taken much notice to be honest cause they don't bother me much they're just annoying. Ex-wife would come out with lumps the size of half golf balls though, they used to eat her alive bless her.


Si

 

[cbr6fs]

Great timing, the mozies are starting to come out here.

No idea on the bark, but i have had a fair bit of success with the NosiLife clothing from Craghoppers.
No idea if it's the weave or something they put in the fabric (as they say it lasts the life of the garment) but apart from the odd determined mozzie getting through i'm mainly bite free the past couple of years wearing there stuff.

Great example was the other week while out hiking on Mount Kyllini (Peloponnese), my dog and walking mate were covered in ticks (we took 15 off the dog alone and shes only a small Jack Russell), yet i didn't find one tick on me.

I do still get the odd bite wearing the NosiLife stuff but it has dramatically reduced them in relation to before or when i don't wear these garments.





Cheers
Mark

 

[lucan]

I was watching the Programme Moonshiners on t.v. the other night, They were spraying themselves with minty mouthwash to keep the mozzies away , seemed to work

 

[Paul_B]

Used to eat marmite for alleged repellency properties. Never worked so stopped as it's vile stuff.

I don't get bothered by ticks, just don't bite despite being carried on my skin. Midges are my plague though. After a recommendation on here I got Wilma's nordic summer repellent. It works for me.

On an aside, my Dad never gets bitten much. He can wall through clouds of midges so thick it is like a storm cloud. However he doesn't get bitten,much. I've seen a midge biting him then dying!!! Seriously! He's toxic to midge s

 

[11binf]

Vince, where do you get your garlic tablets? I'd like to give it a try.

Sir you can find them at health food stores or at any drug/chemist store under the name "Garlek" please forgive my spelling guy's...vince g. 11B Inf...

 

[Urban X]

On an aside, my Dad never gets bitten much. He can wall through clouds of midges so thick it is like a storm cloud. However he doesn't get bitten,much. I've seen a midge biting him then dying!!! Seriously! He's toxic to midge s

Same here can be clouds of em (UK ones anyway), and they don't seem to bite they just get in your face and stuff, just irritating sodding things. I don't suppose you know what blood group your Dad is? Mine is AB Rhesus Neg, still wonder if that's it? I've never had a tick on me afaik so dunno whether they would bite me or not, def never had one I've seen anyway?


Si

 

[awarner]

May have to try some of the suggestions, have a district scout camp at the end of the month at Feney Crofts in the New Forest, the whole area around the site is marshland and most people complain about midges.
We are in the main field this year so it may be fun, normally I camp in the woods and it seems to keep them at bay for some reason.

And I love marmite so gives me a perfect excuse to eat more, just for scientific research you understand