Many great ideas to repel the horrors posted by fellow sufferers. Thanks for posting, one and all; I must look into some of these ideas. Apart from Al Fresco, I'm not aware of another natural (but potent) repellant.
Until recently, I actually took a pill daily, (which worked) - and had taken it for a few months - but was advised to discontinue taking it, as the side effects (including, bizarrely, a slight deterioration in the health - as opposed to the vision, which is always poor - of my eyes) were slight, but disturbingly measurable. Hmmm.
GoCubsGo, I feel your pain, and understand exactly what you are saying. As it happens, I get a similar completely over-the-top reaction to them, which takes
weeks to fade (and is hot and itchy for
days).
Indeed, I have been places where the airborne menaces decided that the best way to reach my legs was to take a short cut through cotton sports socks and thick cotton chinos......and managed to reach their goal, unnoticed by me (busily sampling quality local beverages in very good company on a balmy late summer evening in an ancient city centre, a place near where the local river, one of Europe's great waterways, had recently burst its banks, leading to an exponential explosion in the population of the winged menaces) until it was far, far too late. Been there, been there. I know exactly that of which you write.
Yeah! Except it would disrupt the food chain (Skeeters are food source of bats, fish, birds and so on). Oh and some other blood sucker will fill the void left by the mosquitoes genocide. My money is on the no-see-um (biting midges). I hate them more than skeeter, since you can exact divine retribution on a mosquito that has latched on to you. No dice with no-see-ums.
Hmmm. I think I may beg to differ. 'No-see-ums' are a nuisance of a different order altogether to 'hear-um-all-too-well' as the horrors bite, snigger and then proceed to emit a high pitched whine in your ear - what my ear translates as something along the lines of 'Ha! Got you! Hee-hee! And there's nothing you can do about it! Chortle!' in fluent mosquito (a language, you will note, that I am quite convinced I have mastered in recent decades).
