Re: Some natural mosquito repellants

[Guest guest]

Im allergic to bananas... I suppose I should be happy hehe

Chantelle

>

> I can't vouch for these-(they were sent to me) but perhaps someone has

> tried

> one and can comment. I was really happy to see one for the babies, as

> it's hard to pick something safe for them.

> -----:

> Use Bounce Fabric Softener Sheets...Best thing ever used in

> Louisiana..just wipe on & go..Great for Babies

>

> Bob, a fisherman, takes one vitamin B-1 tablet a day

> April through October . He said it works. He was right.

> Hasn't had a mosquito bite in 33 years. Try it.

> Every one he has talked into trying it works on them.

> Vitamin B-1( Thiamine Hydrochloride 100 mg

>

> If you eat bananas,

> the mosquitos like you, - something about the banana oil

> as your body processes it.

> Stop eating bananas for the summer and the mosquitos

> will be much less interested

>

> This is going to floor you, but one of the best

> insect repellents someone found (who is in the woods

> every day), is Vick's Vaporub.

>

> Plant marigolds around the yard, the flowers give off

> a smell that bugs do not like,

> so plant some in that garden also to help ward

> off bugs without using insecticides

>

> Tough guy " Marines who spend a great deal of time

> " camping out " say that the very best mosquito

> repellant you can use is

> Avon Skin-So-Soft bath oil mixed a bout

> half and half with alcohol.

> ____

>

>

> No more bug encounters for us, I hope!

> My dog had her first tick last night. I think I've heard somewhere you

> can

> rub the fabric softener sheets on them too.

> ;-)

> in Ma.

>

>

>

>

>

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> http://www.aol.com.

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

~

I don't know about the garlic-I sleep with my dog!!! LOL.

Now you know I got a wicked visual off the vicks'ed up, ferny

people trecking through the woods!

I have Fontline-time to start apparently!

the new Ortho-max bug spray specifically lists wolf spiders,

and is supposed to be safe for kids and pets after it dries...

who knows for sure.

I've had mixed results with skin so soft, seemed like I had to put

it on every 10 minutes. But I like bananas too, so.....

with kids, I'd treat their clothes, not them, with any stronger stuff.

It must be " Bug Revenge " time in Nature-paying us all back for DDT.

(West Nile, Lymme, Avian flu. My neighbors dog (she does agility with her

three), got Rocky Mtn. Spotted Fever...go figure.

;-)

in Ma.

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[Guest guest]

,

We have a cabin on the Loyalsock State Forest in the Endless mountain

area of PA. We go there allot so we've tried lots of remedies. I've

used vicks. Smear a little on the brim of your hat. Stick a piece of

fern so it hangs out from the brim of your hat helps keep the knats

away from your face, also. Also the skin-so-soft, my sister uses that

on her horse. Good for on the face because it keeps bugs and flys

away from it's eyes. Another thing for fleas and dogs, my daughters

friend has 6 labs and lives on a farm. She gives her dogs garlic

tablets and swears by it to keep fleas off the dogs. I stay with

advandtic (spelling?) for my dogs because we take them to the cabin

with us. I haven't seen a flea or tic on any of my dogs in years.

Now if you have any ideas on how to keep spiders away I'd love to

hear. We have those big wolf spiders at the cabin that even give my

hubby the heebie geebies. They can turn my manly man into a girly

man...LOL

mom to 31

-- In CHARGE , mdlinda@... wrote:

>

> I can't vouch for these-(they were sent to me) but perhaps someone

has tried

> one and can comment. I was really happy to see one for the

babies, as

> it's hard to pick something safe for them.

> -----:

> Use Bounce Fabric Softener Sheets...Best thing ever used in

> Louisiana..just wipe on & go..Great for Babies

>

> Bob, a fisherman, takes one vitamin B-1 tablet a day

> April through October . He said it works. He was right.

> Hasn't had a mosquito bite in 33 years. Try it.

> Every one he has talked into trying it works on them.

> Vitamin B-1( Thiamine Hydrochloride 100 mg

>

> If you eat bananas,

> the mosquitos like you, - something about the banana oil

> as your body processes it.

> Stop eating bananas for the summer and the mosquitos

> will be much less interested

>

> This is going to floor you, but one of the best

> insect repellents someone found (who is in the woods

> every day), is Vick's Vaporub.

>

> Plant marigolds around the yard, the flowers give off

> a smell that bugs do not like,

> so plant some in that garden also to help ward

> off bugs without using insecticides

>

> Tough guy " Marines who spend a great deal of time

> " camping out " say that the very best mosquito

> repellant you can use is

> Avon Skin-So-Soft bath oil mixed a bout

> half and half with alcohol.

> ____

>

>

> No more bug encounters for us, I hope!

> My dog had her first tick last night. I think I've heard

somewhere you can

> rub the fabric softener sheets on them too.

> ;-)

> in Ma.

>

>

>

>

>

> ************************************** See what's free at

http://www.aol.com.

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Ohhhhh I have a big spider story

once at my old work there was a huge spider and I could see it from way

across the room wich was a rather big room. im still surprized i saw it lol.

It was maby 20 or so feet away

Chantelle

>

> ,

>

> We have a cabin on the Loyalsock State Forest in the Endless mountain

> area of PA. We go there allot so we've tried lots of remedies. I've

> used vicks. Smear a little on the brim of your hat. Stick a piece of

> fern so it hangs out from the brim of your hat helps keep the knats

> away from your face, also. Also the skin-so-soft, my sister uses that

> on her horse. Good for on the face because it keeps bugs and flys

> away from it's eyes. Another thing for fleas and dogs, my daughters

> friend has 6 labs and lives on a farm. She gives her dogs garlic

> tablets and swears by it to keep fleas off the dogs. I stay with

> advandtic (spelling?) for my dogs because we take them to the cabin

> with us. I haven't seen a flea or tic on any of my dogs in years.

>

> Now if you have any ideas on how to keep spiders away I'd love to

> hear. We have those big wolf spiders at the cabin that even give my

> hubby the heebie geebies. They can turn my manly man into a girly

> man...LOL

>

> mom to 31

>

>

>

>

>

>

> -- In CHARGE , mdlinda@... wrote:

> >

> > I can't vouch for these-(they were sent to me) but perhaps someone

> has tried

> > one and can comment. I was really happy to see one for the

> babies, as

> > it's hard to pick something safe for them.

> > -----:

> > Use Bounce Fabric Softener Sheets...Best thing ever used in

> > Louisiana..just wipe on & go..Great for Babies

> >

> > Bob, a fisherman, takes one vitamin B-1 tablet a day

> > April through October . He said it works. He was right.

> > Hasn't had a mosquito bite in 33 years. Try it.

> > Every one he has talked into trying it works on them.

> > Vitamin B-1( Thiamine Hydrochloride 100 mg

> >

> > If you eat bananas,

> > the mosquitos like you, - something about the banana oil

> > as your body processes it.

> > Stop eating bananas for the summer and the mosquitos

> > will be much less interested

> >

> > This is going to floor you, but one of the best

> > insect repellents someone found (who is in the woods

> > every day), is Vick's Vaporub.

> >

> > Plant marigolds around the yard, the flowers give off

> > a smell that bugs do not like,

> > so plant some in that garden also to help ward

> > off bugs without using insecticides

> >

> > Tough guy " Marines who spend a great deal of time

> > " camping out " say that the very best mosquito

> > repellant you can use is

> > Avon Skin-So-Soft bath oil mixed a bout

> > half and half with alcohol.

> > ____

> >

> >

> > No more bug encounters for us, I hope!

> > My dog had her first tick last night. I think I've heard

> somewhere you can

> > rub the fabric softener sheets on them too.

> > ;-)

> > in Ma.

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > ************************************** See what's free at

> http://www.aol.com.

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

,

I sleep with my dogs, too. They are all expert bed hogs...Being

around Ronica's (Dawn's friend) is like sniffing a big plate of

spagetti dogs.... ewwwww

Henry is the one I should be putting the Frontline on..He brings

the nasty little buggers home...

I think it may have been an old indian chief who told me about

the ferns. LOL The cabin has no running water and an outhouse. The

vicks is good for covering stinky pits. The outhouse pit, is lets

see, dug in 1937 so that makes it (you do the math) I keep car

smellys and air freshener in supply....lye works too. (In the pit

that is)

I'm in one of those moods..heres another story..the cabin was

orginally built for a hunting cabin by my grandfather, great uncles

and Dad in 1937. I think they knew of the area because my Dad, as a

boy, did two tours in the CCC camps that helped build the park(Worlds

End) area during the depression. The cabin sits up a wooded, ferned

path just off Rt. 87. At the end of our drive way path sits another

cabin that is on private land. (Our cabin sits on state forest and we

leash the area where the cabin sits.) Dad always told the story of

the family who lived in that other cabin right after the depession.

When hunting the men would hire the man(Barney) of this other family

to be camp runner and cook. First deer shot would be butchered for

camp meals. Barney would come, gut, and drag that first deer back for

butchering. Besides paying Barney they would also share venison with

his family. Dad said Barney was so poor he didn't have shoes and

would trapz around the woods, snow and all, barefoot. We kids always

snickered behind Dad's back that he was such a bull shitter.

A few summers ago a couple drove up to the cabin while we wer there.

The man was the son of Barney who had lived in that cabin down the

road. Everthing Dad had said was true. He had fond memories of my

Grandpa and said Grandpa took him hunting for the very first time in

his life. As a boy he was never alowed up the path to our cabin until

my Grandpa called. He said Gamdpa would stand at the top of the path

and yell down. " Cone on up, Ducky " The man had tears in his eyes

recalling the memory and so did I.

>

> ~

>

> I don't know about the garlic-I sleep with my dog!!! LOL.

>

> Now you know I got a wicked visual off the vicks'ed up, ferny

> people trecking through the woods!

>

> I have Fontline-time to start apparently!

>

> the new Ortho-max bug spray specifically lists wolf spiders,

> and is supposed to be safe for kids and pets after it dries...

> who knows for sure.

>

> I've had mixed results with skin so soft, seemed like I had to put

> it on every 10 minutes. But I like bananas too, so.....

>

> with kids, I'd treat their clothes, not them, with any stronger

stuff.

>

> It must be " Bug Revenge " time in Nature-paying us all back for DDT.

> (West Nile, Lymme, Avian flu. My neighbors dog (she does agility

with her

> three), got Rocky Mtn. Spotted Fever...go figure.

>

> ;-)

> in Ma.

>

>

>

> ************************************** See what's free at

http://www.aol.com.

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

I sleep with two cats, they take care of any spiders or any other creepy

crawly insect that dares come near me hehe

I like snakes and lizards though

>

> ,

> I sleep with my dogs, too. They are all expert bed hogs...Being

> around Ronica's (Dawn's friend) is like sniffing a big plate of

> spagetti dogs.... ewwwww

>

> Henry is the one I should be putting the Frontline on..He brings

> the nasty little buggers home...

>

> I think it may have been an old indian chief who told me about

> the ferns. LOL The cabin has no running water and an outhouse. The

> vicks is good for covering stinky pits. The outhouse pit, is lets

> see, dug in 1937 so that makes it (you do the math) I keep car

> smellys and air freshener in supply....lye works too. (In the pit

> that is)

>

> I'm in one of those moods..heres another story..the cabin was

> orginally built for a hunting cabin by my grandfather, great uncles

> and Dad in 1937. I think they knew of the area because my Dad, as a

> boy, did two tours in the CCC camps that helped build the park(Worlds

> End) area during the depression. The cabin sits up a wooded, ferned

> path just off Rt. 87. At the end of our drive way path sits another

> cabin that is on private land. (Our cabin sits on state forest and we

> leash the area where the cabin sits.) Dad always told the story of

> the family who lived in that other cabin right after the depession.

> When hunting the men would hire the man(Barney) of this other family

> to be camp runner and cook. First deer shot would be butchered for

> camp meals. Barney would come, gut, and drag that first deer back for

> butchering. Besides paying Barney they would also share venison with

> his family. Dad said Barney was so poor he didn't have shoes and

> would trapz around the woods, snow and all, barefoot. We kids always

> snickered behind Dad's back that he was such a bull shitter.

>

> A few summers ago a couple drove up to the cabin while we wer there.

> The man was the son of Barney who had lived in that cabin down the

> road. Everthing Dad had said was true. He had fond memories of my

> Grandpa and said Grandpa took him hunting for the very first time in

> his life. As a boy he was never alowed up the path to our cabin until

> my Grandpa called. He said Gamdpa would stand at the top of the path

> and yell down. " Cone on up, Ducky " The man had tears in his eyes

> recalling the memory and so did I.

>

>

>

>

>

> >

> > ~

> >

> > I don't know about the garlic-I sleep with my dog!!! LOL.

> >

> > Now you know I got a wicked visual off the vicks'ed up, ferny

> > people trecking through the woods!

> >

> > I have Fontline-time to start apparently!

> >

> > the new Ortho-max bug spray specifically lists wolf spiders,

> > and is supposed to be safe for kids and pets after it dries...

> > who knows for sure.

> >

> > I've had mixed results with skin so soft, seemed like I had to put

> > it on every 10 minutes. But I like bananas too, so.....

> >

> > with kids, I'd treat their clothes, not them, with any stronger

> stuff.

> >

> > It must be " Bug Revenge " time in Nature-paying us all back for DDT.

> > (West Nile, Lymme, Avian flu. My neighbors dog (she does agility

> with her

> > three), got Rocky Mtn. Spotted Fever...go figure.

> >

> > ;-)

> > in Ma.

> >

> >

> >

> > ************************************** See what's free at

> http://www.aol.com.

> >

> >

> >

[Guest guest]

Chantelle,

My Gracie Gorilla dog has an alergic reaction to spider bites.

Spiders love to lurk under my sorted laundry and my Gracie dog loves

to snuffle the laundry. She's been bit a few times and swells up like

a baloon usally in the face. I have to keep medicine on hand incase

she gets bit. I try to keep her out of basement when I do laundry now.

-- In CHARGE , " Chantelle McLaren "

wrote:

>

> I sleep with two cats, they take care of any spiders or any other

creepy

> crawly insect that dares come near me hehe

>

> I like snakes and lizards though

>

>

>

> >

> > ,

> > I sleep with my dogs, too. They are all expert bed hogs...Being

> > around Ronica's (Dawn's friend) is like sniffing a big plate of

> > spagetti dogs.... ewwwww

> >

> > Henry is the one I should be putting the Frontline on..He brings

> > the nasty little buggers home...

> >

> > I think it may have been an old indian chief who told me about

> > the ferns. LOL The cabin has no running water and an outhouse.

The

> > vicks is good for covering stinky pits. The outhouse pit, is lets

> > see, dug in 1937 so that makes it (you do the math) I keep car

> > smellys and air freshener in supply....lye works too. (In the pit

> > that is)

> >

> > I'm in one of those moods..heres another story..the cabin was

> > orginally built for a hunting cabin by my grandfather, great

uncles

> > and Dad in 1937. I think they knew of the area because my Dad, as

a

> > boy, did two tours in the CCC camps that helped build the park

(Worlds

> > End) area during the depression. The cabin sits up a wooded,

ferned

> > path just off Rt. 87. At the end of our drive way path sits

another

> > cabin that is on private land. (Our cabin sits on state forest

and we

> > leash the area where the cabin sits.) Dad always told the story of

> > the family who lived in that other cabin right after the

depession.

> > When hunting the men would hire the man(Barney) of this other

family

> > to be camp runner and cook. First deer shot would be butchered for

> > camp meals. Barney would come, gut, and drag that first deer back

for

> > butchering. Besides paying Barney they would also share venison

with

> > his family. Dad said Barney was so poor he didn't have shoes and

> > would trapz around the woods, snow and all, barefoot. We kids

always

> > snickered behind Dad's back that he was such a bull shitter.

> >

> > A few summers ago a couple drove up to the cabin while we wer

there.

> > The man was the son of Barney who had lived in that cabin down the

> > road. Everthing Dad had said was true. He had fond memories of my

> > Grandpa and said Grandpa took him hunting for the very first time

in

> > his life. As a boy he was never alowed up the path to our cabin

until

> > my Grandpa called. He said Gamdpa would stand at the top of the

path

> > and yell down. " Cone on up, Ducky " The man had tears in his eyes

> > recalling the memory and so did I.

> >

> >

> >

> >

> >

> > >

> > > ~

> > >

> > > I don't know about the garlic-I sleep with my dog!!! LOL.

> > >

> > > Now you know I got a wicked visual off the vicks'ed up, ferny

> > > people trecking through the woods!

> > >

> > > I have Fontline-time to start apparently!

> > >

> > > the new Ortho-max bug spray specifically lists wolf spiders,

> > > and is supposed to be safe for kids and pets after it dries...

> > > who knows for sure.

> > >

> > > I've had mixed results with skin so soft, seemed like I had to

put

> > > it on every 10 minutes. But I like bananas too, so.....

> > >

> > > with kids, I'd treat their clothes, not them, with any stronger

> > stuff.

> > >

> > > It must be " Bug Revenge " time in Nature-paying us all back for

DDT.

> > > (West Nile, Lymme, Avian flu. My neighbors dog (she does

agility

> > with her

> > > three), got Rocky Mtn. Spotted Fever...go figure.

> > >

> > > ;-)

> > > in Ma.

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > > ************************************** See what's free at

> > http://www.aol.com.

> > >

> > >

> > >