I always put witch hazel on the bites that my kids get. It helps, and does not burn when applied.

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1992 500SEL 25K
1995 E320 40K
1995 SL600 120K
2002 JX8 Sport 43K
2005 Volvo S40 95K
2006 Isuzu NPR 304K (Frankencamper)
2007 Crown Victoria 150K
2014 Smart Electric 20K

If you venture into the woods of MN, or MI right now without protection you will not be able to handle it. I had to retrieve a soccor ball that went into my woods yesterday and came out covered the the blood sucking sums of beeches.

I hate em....yes HATE them.

AK, has No-see-ums they are nasty sob's that hurt like hell, tsetse fles will make you wish you were dead.

I just spray DDT around the yard.

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'07 Yukon 2500
'13 Subaru Outback 3.6R
'13 Orbea Carpe 9-speed

Currently Benzless
Formerly: 300TD, S600, E55, 560SEL

---= The forest breathes, listen.
-Native American elder

Dry ice is CO2. Mosquitos are attracted to CO2 (it's an evalution thing - helps them find warm blood to suck). Dry ice in a bucket of H2O produces mosquito attacting CO2 gas. As for why they die in the bucket... I guess they're not real smart. Same principle in the propane powered mosquito traps.

Just keep in mind that you're killing mother Gaia when you do stuff like that and Al Gore may have to leave his mansion and chastise you greatly for your unreasonably large carbon footprint .

Hopefully we can all drink a toast to the comeback of DDT. Then we might be on track again for eradicating several insect bourne diseases that we almost wiped out 40+ years ago before Rachel Carson came along.

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-livin' in the terminally flippant zone

FWIW, I have a Mosquito Magnet and it has made my unlivable after dusk deck to a deck I can sit on 24/7. It also stopped working as others have described. I took it apart (it's not hard to figure out) and found the igniter was loose from the assembly. It sits atop the manifold, isolated by a phenolic washer, and held in with a nylon bolt. Very simple fix folks.

We're going to Alaska soon and have some thermocells with us. Guy at Academy swears by them.

Also plenty of 98% Deet. If ya can't stand the Deet, get out of the ditchen!

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"HEIDI" White 1998 E-300TD 176K
European Delivery is a HOOT!

2002 Harley "FatBoy"