# How much do you hate mosquitoes?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 17, 2011, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-hate-mosquitoes/589310 "2011-07-17T02:16:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-hate-mosquitoes/589310/61 "2011-07-19T16:13:36Z")

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He may have had an assistamt. Dunno. Probably a better job than, say, bull-semen collector, but I’m not sure I’d last long at it.

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**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-hate-mosquitoes/589310/62 "2011-07-19T16:19:23Z")

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Up here, the only bug repellent that really _WORKS_ is Ben’s 100, which is a 100% (well, 99.something if you want to get technical) DEET repellent, nothing else works, naturapel and other “kinder, gentler” repellents work for about 5 minutes and then are nothing more than “people seasoning” for the biting vermin

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**Author:** ![mozchron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@mozchron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mozchron)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2011, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-much-do-you-hate-mosquitoes/589310/63 "2011-07-19T16:28:32Z")

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> [@MacTech](#):
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> Up here, the only bug repellent that really _WORKS_ is Ben’s 100, which is a 100% (well, 99.something if you want to get technical) DEET repellent, nothing else works, naturapel and other “kinder, gentler” repellents work for about 5 minutes and then are nothing more than “people seasoning” for the biting vermin

Yep. DEET is the only thing I recommend.

100% DEET is best, but don’t put that on your skin. Put it on your clothes and hat instead.

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