Question from Laura
Other than smacking them, I mean. My home, indoors, has a mosquito problem.
Does anybody know something safe that can be done to get rid of them?
Thanks very…(‘scuse me, scratching)…much.
Debra’s Answer
My friend Linda highly recommends Nature’s Defender Cedar Oil products. She gave me a sample this afternoon and I used it in my most mosquito-fllled environment: my chlorine-free swimming pool.
Just to give you an idea of what the mosquito population is like here in Florida…most everyone who has a pool also has in enclosed in a screened room to keep out the bugs. We don’t have any screen, and every time I go in the pool, I also have to battle the mosquitoes. We have several ways of dealing with them, such as citronella candles, but ours are all burned down at the moment.
So I sprayed the cedar oil on my hair (it’s a very fine, non-greasy mist) and I watched the mosquitoes fly right up to my body and stop without landing and biting. I sprayed my husband’s hair too, and he had no bites. I also had no bites from walking through the garden, which usually results in at least half a dozen bites. This stuff really works. (I should add that we walk in the pool, we don’t swim, so our heads and shoulders are above water at all times.)
I have to tell you that it does smell like cedar wood. But it’s not even as strong as most herbal repellents I’ve tried.
This company makes a whole variety of cedar repellants, for personal protection, pets, and farm animals. They have cedar oil sprays in various concentration for different uses, and red cedar granules that can be used indoors or out to repel repel fleas, mosquitos, roaches, scorpions, flies, no-see-ums–even venomous snakes–with no effect on beneficial insects such as butterflies and pollinating bees. Kills bedbugs, eliminates fire ant mounds, handles head lice…it’s pretty amazing stuff.
