Itchy!! Mosquitoes!

Subject: Mosquito Tip

Mosquito Tip -

Take vitamin B. Mosquitoes don't like to taste it.

Buy these handy dandy mosquito zappers. At least you'll feel revenged.

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Avon's Skin So Soft. I think the last time I bought it, I went to the Super Saver on 7th Ave near Union. Mosquitos attack me the moment I put my nose outside the front door - but when I wear that stuff (just slather it on like massage oil after a shower), they stay the heck away. It is the only thing I've found that works.

Mamacita wrote: [quote=ljnd]Avon's Skin So Soft. I think the last time I bought it, I went to the Super Saver on 7th Ave near Union. Mosquitos attack me the moment I put my nose outside the front door - but when I wear that stuff (just slather it on like massage oil after a shower), they stay the heck away. It is the only thing I've found that works.

What does it smell like?
Lol. This question is a sign that the mosquitoes aren't bothering you _that_ much!

My mosquito problem isn't so much with the biting (my partner gets eaten alive, but they don't seem to like the way I taste so much -- although I don't tempt fate) ...

I live in the garden floor of a brownstone and enter and leave via the little grotto-like space under the stoop. From May through September, that space is home to a cloud of mosquitoes. Every damn one of 'em in the neighborhood hangs out there, it seems. It sux, not only because you have to fight your way through on the way in and out, but because when the door into the hallway opens, the air currents suck them into the hallway, and then it's only a matter of time till they find their way into the apartment itself.

No idea how they end up there. There's no water standing in there, so it's not like they're hatching and just hanging around.

Every once in a while I'll hose the area down with Raid, but it doesn't seem to do much. Anyone encountered something similar and found a way to get rid of the little bastards?

flamethrower?

Skin so soft - smells like baby powder on steroids. Not so bad, but you definitely have to weigh it against the bites. I choose the Sss.

I get HORRIBLE reactions to mosquitoes, always have and probably always will. I was in Texas last summer, in the middle of torrential rains/excessive heat and humidity and my boyfriend's mother saw me scratching my legs until they bled. In her infinite wisdom, she thought it would be a good idea to put a numbing agent on the bites. I used a baby's teething gel, and then tried Anbesol, which didn't work too well so I went back to a teething gel for babies. Perhaps it's psychosomatic, but I feel much better about the summer now that I have partial relief from mosquito bites.

and sorry about the bedbugs! Ain't no quick cure for those besides sealing your bed and doing some major damage control on all your clothes, bedding and living space.

I use Off....works for me or Avon Skin So Soft

anyone ever tried the nosquito, or something of the like?

I am msierable with bites. We spent the weekend slightly upstate at a friend's lakehouse. There is an outside fireplace and we were hanging outside in the evening even though the outside temperature had dropped. What a mistake. In the middle of the night I woke up itchy.. most especially the ankles and feet. Sorry to hear I would have done no better in Brooklyn.

Old fashioned cure for itchy.. spray the bites with windex! I am sure it is the alchohol that quiets the itch but this does work.

Really? Well he was slithering on my ottoman under my feet and we don't really have any cracks-I mean we must because he was in there, but it's a new reno so i don't know how he got in-- and I was freaking out.