Join the Swat Team
If you’re anything like us, a mosquito bite makes you itch for three days minimum and leaves you with giant welts. You also seem to be personally victimized when you’re the only one at the cookout getting bit. Here are some remedies we’ll be researching through, well, Christmas:
- Try a new chemical: If you’re not a fan of DEET, maybe apply picaridin. It has promising reviews.
- Try no chemicals: Want to go all natural? Respectable. Try some oil of lemon eucalyptus, a citronella candle and prayer, or mosquito and fly repelling incense sticks from WillaBee Market.
- Plant, lady: Lavender, lemongrass, mint and catnip are said to repel bitey bugs. Best case scenario, they also attract a bonus cat.
- Drain standing water: These little flying f’s love puddles for breeding. Basically, this week is their Rumspringa.
- Wear loose clothing: Mosquitoes can bite through tight clothing, but you could opt for something looser. Just remember to seal all the openings. Duct tape also works as a quick hair remover.
- Call a bug expert: You could always have your yard fogged. Your mortgage has your name on it, not a mosquito’s, and that interest rate is already sucking you dry.
- Eliminate them at the source: Build one blogger’s “bucket of doom.”
In case you didn’t think women were scary enough, remember only female mosquitoes bite.
