HarryTheSpider

Hi All,

Any recommendations for low cost, effective mossie cream or spray?

Lorna at Vicenza

Fresh lemons. But you do get a bit sticky.

Jerseygirl

Neither...try this.

Weeze

Listen to Jerseygirl. She is wise.

They aren't so good if you are moving about too much though as you move through the fog too much. We have tried spraying the bushes today so they have nowhere to hide.

Lorna at Vicenza

Last year my town council gave out blue tablets to drop into all drains and manholes etc. where water can stagnate. It made a huge difference to the mozzie population. This year we can still get them but we have to buy them now. I'm lucky anyway. They don't like me.

Weeze

My family is lucky too. I'm the sacrifice

Jerseygirl

Me too. My back is covered in bug bits from a month ago...I went out without my Lentek device.

I say this every time someone opens one of these threads...why would you put stuff on your skin that melts plastic? Besides that I find if I miss a tiny little bit of skin with the spray/lotion...the bugs find it and get me there.

Mr Weeze

Easy. Stand next to someone like Weeze or Jerseygirl

That, or of course there is Skin so Soft by Avon

HarryTheSpider

Thanks all.

I was actually thinking more about stuff to eradicate the little Fokkers, rather than spray n me..,

100weight

Could be difficult getting them to sit still while you applied said cream
CWT

AZ_Alba

Have you tried a bug zapper available at lowes or home depot?

It lures the little buggers in with a scent pad then zaps them with 50,000 volts.

Steerpike

You are getting mossies in Phoenix? I've been here over 3 years now, and I think I've had ONE mossie encounter; one of the delights of the desert climate.

I happen to be on a business trip to NY and FL at the moment; got bitten on my face the first day in NY. I felt positively miserable in FL today; it was 'only' 85, but the humidity made it worse than the 100 back in Scottsdale ...

Weeze

Ours is pointless. Zaps them but there are a thousand more to seek revenge.

HarryTheSpider

Yup - mossies in Chandler, to be precise. Apparently quite normal... This is our second summer here, and we wereeatenalive last year too. The city drove around at midnight a few days ago, spraying the trees & bushes... There's a fair bit of standing water around here... Small lakes around which many houses are built etc.

Bob

Using Cutters Deet Woods stuff and also their low deet family soft version, working really well, much better than the Deet Off stuff.

For kids, Berts, works well, but not for nearly as long, but much better if they're still in finger sucking stages.