POSTED: June 6, 2006 by karenm
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This is exactly what I need to know...how to keep those lil bugs away from my yard. Not only they attack me, they also attack my dog. My poor dog is covered with bites!! Here I found this article to share:
[url]http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/knowhow/yardandgarden/article/0,16417,1194316,00.html[/url]
ROTFLMFAO!!!!!
My sons would love a bat house in the garden. We are planning to build one and put it up, but it seems complicated. It has to be the right height off the ground, in the right spot and near water, blah blah. Once we get that right, will the bats just move in, that easy, gauranteed? I have a birdhouse that no bird has shown any interest in! oh yeah, that's because it has no floor :D
that is too funny smoodgie :laugh: as for solutions i wish i had one, they are bad here too.........pesty things :mad:
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janetc
Funny I was going to say bats as well. I can't remember how many I heard they eat in one night....but it is alot!
If Noah had had any smarts, he would have creamed the two little b*ggers on the Ark. And while he was at it, schmucked the earwigs and blown the brains out of the raccoons....
Hahahahahaha!!!!!! :laugh: :biglol: I can think of a few other critters that should have been schmucked back then too!!!!
After Bite also works on an itchy bite the day (or days) after you get bitten.
I'm SO jealous of everyone who isn't appetizing to mosquitoes!! I don't have a terrible reaction to mozzie bites -- just that damn itch!!!!
OMG, jenjen, the image wasn't pretty, believe me!!!! :eek:
that Off mosquito lamps work -- up to a point. If you are still sitting out at midnight, the mosquitoes finally just hold their noses in desperation and zoom in for the kill.
DH is like JenJen -- they hardly ever bite him and when they do, it doesn't affect him. But me, hoo boy. I hear ya, Smoodgie, some of them got me over the same mud puddle when I was at the garden center. Someone recommended Claratin to me, I've been taking it for a week now and it does help. The bites don't get as painful or infected. There is also a medication in a pen-like tube called After Bite and if you put it on right immediately after getting bitten, the bite doesn't swell or itch.
If Noah had had any smarts, he would have creamed the two little b*ggers on the Ark. And while he was at it, schmucked the earwigs and blown the brains out of the raccoons....
Have a bat house and they will take care of them but then you may be scared of bats :laugh:
From what I have read we are in for a bad year with them. Apparently the mild winter, rainy weeks in spring, then high temps. have caused this. Environmemt Canada has some info in the newspaper. Some areas thet seldom have many will be bothered with more this year. Lucky us !
I cannot tolerate the smell of this but it does work. Altho I have no idea how much you can be affected by the fumes from it. It burns like incense... a curl of smoke.
Smoo...that had to be funniest visual i've ever had...lol...as for 'squitos...i don't get biten by them at all...but my boys do...and holy crap...they swell up like crazy...i've tried everything and nothing works...actually i've yet to try the citronella plants...i find that the candles are a waste of time...the were landing on the edge of the candle :rolleyes:
I'm sorry, I'm in the same boat you are and I have no idea what to do to get rid of those nasty little pests :hairpull: I've even got mosquito bites on my fingers and in my ear. They wait till you're in a vulnerable position -- say, straddled over a puddle at the garden centre with a flat of plants in each hand -- and then zoom in for the attack. Argh!!!