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OutOfHeretoday at 8:03 AM3 repliesview on HN

I hope these mosquitoes were not released in the wild.

The simple answer would be to add a natural strongly repellent gentle oil to the DEET spray.


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Foobar8568today at 9:17 AM

A couple years back, I spray some DEET on my shoes, 5 seconds later, a tiger mosquito tried to bite me on that spot (and yes on the shoe itself, just insane to see it trying ).

They already loved that shit.

cbdevidaltoday at 9:08 AM

Spray made from lemon eucalyptus works[1]. Not as well as DEET, but it works.

[1] https://www.consumerreports.org/health/insect-repellent/oil-...

AyyEyetoday at 8:21 AM

At that point just skip the deet.