July 16, 2007

Eaten alive...

Well, my relaxing Saturday morning weeding the flower beds went terribly wrong. In what could have been a scene from a horror movie, I was litterally eaten alive by Asian Tiger Mosquitos. Today I count seven mosquito bites on my ankles, arms, neck and ears.

The Asian Tiger Mosquito bites all day long and is quite persistent about its work. Given the ineffectiveness of spraying, or unwillingness of environmentalists and local political leaders to consider spraying, these little buggers have become a plague in communities like mine. No wonder we never hear kids outside as we did five years ago! (Ok, maybe some of those kids are now in college, but work with me.)

My spouse and I are now seriously considering adding a screened in room or a sunroom to the back of our house. Sadly, the new room would replace our flower beds, but hey, there's always indoor gardening...
Posted by Montgomery Slacker at 13:16

1 comments:

rtsind said...

Some natural mosquito repellents, might inlude eating brewers yeast(you can add it to your cereal or take it in capsule form- .

Your body will emit a scent from this ingestion that is said to ward off mosquitos.

Eating garlic or onions will also have the same effect.

You may want to add some mosquito repellant plants to your garden, where DEET and what had sometimes worked for me- I think negative thoughts about the critters and how I am going to kill their families if they bite me. It has worked sometimes- the idea is that if you project negative thoughts, the scent of your sweat will change to an offensive odor to mosquitos

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