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Well - as long as the Mozzie hIts it en route then thats cool! Horrible things!
The electric plug WITH THE TABLET THINGIES in ones are the best IMHO
This message was last edited by Rixxy on 8/23/2007.This message was last edited by Rixxy on 8/23/2007.
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I bought one of the tennis racquet fly swatters from a garden centre in the UK a couple of years ago.
Recently I bought another from a 99p store to bring over to Spain.
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Found this on the web. It's an answer to "What good do mosquitos do and would we be better off without them". The answer seems to be YES. They kill more of us than any other animal.
As you may recall from an earlier conversation with Marc Klowden, an entomologist at the University of Idaho who studies mosquitoes, one good thing male mosquitoes do is eat honeydew. Honeydew is the sticky stuff that covers many trees and the area around them in the summertime. Honeydew is aphid excrement. Think what a sticky place the world would be if these wonderful male mosquitoes weren't cleaning it up!
Yeah, sure, you say. But what about the females? After all, it is the females who suck our blood. And make us itch. AND make us sick. What GOOD do THEY do?
Well, for one thing, says Professor Klowden, baby mosquitoes make great fish food. In fact, you generally will not find mosquito larvae in places where fish or frogs live. Even though the larvae live in the water, they have to breathe air, which means rising to the surface and breathing through a little snorkel. Talk about a great fish dining opportunity.
So it's not so much that mosquitoes breed in stagnant water, as you often hear. Rather, they breed (successfully) in water that has no fish or frogs. They're generally in small temporary pools, says Professor Klowden, places where water accumulates after a rainfall.
And what else? Professor Klowden says the adults make good bird food. And bat food. And food for other insects, such as dragonflies. And…?
Well, that's about all he can come up with. They play a part in the bigger story of life. They fill a NICHE. However, says Professor Klowden, you could probably eliminate mosquitoes and not change the world very much.
In other words, some plants and animals play vital roles in the ecosystems where they live. If they were to disappear, the results would be disastrous, as lots of other plants and animals would disappear also. Professor Klowden does not think the same can be said about mosquitoes.
Some scientists are more complimentary of mosquitoes. Besides blood and honeydew, mosquitoes also eat a lot of plant nectar, which provides sugar as energy for flying. Like bees and other insects, mosquitoes pollinate plants as they collect their nectar.
Entomologist Lewis Nielsen, formerly of the University of Utah, has collected mosquitoes whose bodies were covered with pollen grains that could be traced to more than 30 species of flowering plants. Professor Nielsen has written that he believes that mosquitoes are probably much more important as pollinators of wildflowers than we have realized. In the Arctic, for example, mosquitoes are the main pollinators of bog orchids.
Regardless of the "good" they do, says Professor Klowden, the fact remains that mosquitoes are the most dangerous animal in the world. Forget about poisonous snakes or grizzly bears or sharks. Mosquitoes kill an estimated 2-3 million people a year, most of them children.
Mosquitoes carry the parasites that cause malaria in humans. The parasite has to develop in the mosquito. When it reaches a certain growth stage, it moves to the human when the mosquito feeds on the human's blood.
Although malaria was practically wiped out in the developed world 50 years ago and suppressed in poorer countries in the 1950s and 1960s, incidence of the disease has quadrupled worldwide over the past several years. Plus, some malaria parasites have developed resistance to malaria drugs.
Many scientists believe that malaria will become even worse as the Earth warms up. Mosquitoes love tropical weather. With global warming, the tropics will creep north and south. And so will many species of mosquitoes. And malaria.
One hope for controlling malaria in the future is to come up with a way to stop mosquitoes from carrying the malaria parasite. Only one group, or genus, of mosquitoes, the Anopheles, carries the malaria parasite. If scientists can figure out how to modify these mosquitoes in the laboratory so that they cannot carry the disease, then these modified mosquitoes could be released to spread this trait throughout Anopheles mosquito-dom.
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Thanks for the info
"But what about the females? After all, it is the females who suck our blood. And make us itch. AND make us sick. What GOOD do THEY do?"
We are talking mosquitos here aren't we? OOPS .. (ouch!...sorry dear!)
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Philip, females are females, we keep our men happy, whether they've got two legs or ... just how many legs does a mossie have, 6 innit ? 
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These could be a good deterrant against mosquitos, a pack of two wristbands £2.99
Simply wear on either wrist or ankle to keep mosquitoes at bay.
- For adults and children
- Effective for up to 100 hours
- 100% natural ingredients (citronella, cinnamon oil, lemon grass oil)
- Deet-free
Click link >> ALDI OFFER FROM TOMORROW
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I never used to get bitten, they always attacked my husband and I eat Marmite, but the last year theyve decided they like me! Jungle Formula has a high DEET level and that has worked great for OH but Ive just purchased 4 x Avon SSS (Green bottle) for £12.55 on ebay. The cost includes post and packaging which is excellent value at just over £3 a bottle so will give this a try this time. I need to use a good moisturiser after a day in the sun, so hopefully this will do two jobs. Interestingly, the seller on EBAY highly recommends it as an insect repellent. Worth looking at EBAY if youre in the UK.
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I have always been bitten by the pesky things until I was advised by a
friend to use Avon skin so soft range, I buy the replenishing body
lotion and the replenishing dry oil body spray,BUT the only
fragrance that works on me is the soft and fresh .I have told lots
of my friends and family about this and it has worked every time.
I have only been bitten once since I started to use it and that was
because I forgot to put it on one night. If anyone buys it let me
know how you get on!!!!!!
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So happy I saw this thread, I have been bitten for years in the UK every summer. I just bought 4 bottles at £2.50 each from Avonshop.co.uk. They are doing buy one get one free offer.
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I'm glad I ressurrected this thread as I knew I had posted before on this & so I searched for it.
I bought the Avon dry body spray (soft & fresh is the one people say is the mossie repellant one, not the others) & I think the fragrance is great. I bought two as it was on a BOGOF offer from Avon & free P&P, so cheap.
**** Forgot to use it & got bit !!!!!!!!  Have scars to prove it too !  ****
>>>>> EBAY AVON OFFER
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I can vouch for Avon Skin So Soft too - it may sound weird, but I use it on my horse!!! Someone recommended it to me last year to prevent her from being bitten by flies through the summer, it is the only thing that has ever worked and of course she smells gorgeous. I'm taking a supply over to Spain as I always get bitten and hopefully it will work for me too. (Told you it sounded weird)
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Hi Jane, we don't hear much from you. Glad your horse is protected. I hate seeing flies too around horses eyes. must be so irritating. Not wierd at all. It's no different to vets saying put sunscreen on a white cats ears as the tips are prone to sunburn which leads to cancer & they need to lose part of their ears.
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and dogs too. My parents dog loves lying in the sun, a real sunbather and he got a nasty melanoma on the top of his head (where the fur is white). Our pets are like members of our family and we treat them as such so why not. My dogs always had a bowl of tea in the mornings and then cornflakes and milk. Same as me!
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I bought the Avon SSS based on More's recommendation last year and it worked a treat for me too
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Avon have a new offer on Skin So Soft dry oil spray (Soft & Fresh) 150ml.
Buy one, get one free for £5 from agent. Item 25742 Buy online , 1 for £2.50 but you pay postage.
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HI Everyone
I've been told by a friend in Newfoundland that if you put Listerine mouthwash in a spray bottle, then spray around door and window frames then they won't pass that area & if you are sitting outside you should spray around the area in a circle here you are siting/lying. Now I haven't tested this theory don't really need to in the West Midlands!
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Memuva & a warm welcome to our forum. Hey, that's right.  I just Googled it & saw it mentioned in a few sites. (Well, I never !!!!!)
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There you go, you'll have try it out next time you are out in Spain and being bitten by the critters.
We were out in Turkey just over a week ago and although it was extremley hot we weren't bothered by the mozzy's so I didn't have to use the old Listerine....
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Found this on the Snopes webpage
http://www.snopes.com/oldwives/dishsoap.asp
Seems they're not convinced about the Listerine
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