I always bet bitten. Even if I wear long sleeves and jeans, it’ll be behind my ears and on my fingers. Dirty bastages. Avon Skin-So-Soft supposedly works well, but it leaves me oily and ruins my clothes and if I forget a tiny patch, I still get bit there.
I am also O+, don’t eat many sweets at all, and have tried wearing unfragranced products: it makes no difference.
I do eat meat but avoid fat (except in chocolate). I think the kid is way ahead of me in sweets consumption. The vampire mosquitoes are just after me and always have been.
Another Type O pos here BTW. And I eat LOTS of garlic.
At the time of the last attack I was drinking a gin and tonic, my kid was drinking some kind of Juicy Juice, and my husband was on his second martini, so an enterprising mosquito could have bitten him and gotten quite a buzz. But Nooooo!
And yeah, I know it’s my blood they’re after, not my flesh, but it sounded better that way, or anyway I thought so.
::Exits, pursued by a whine::
Daughters of Satan, I accept.
In my own defense, though, I have to say that I am so yummy-licious to the mossies, that I do believe that even the MALES come in for a bite! GET THEM OFF ME!!
(yeah, i do know that it is the females…don’t do a pile-on)
Eat a lot of garlic.
Carry a blowtorch.
Yeah, I think I’ve had only two mosquito bites all year long…
Ah, bliss!
Well, that certainly partly explains why they drive Mr. Kiz nuts while they tend to leave me mostly alone. I keep telling him his sweat is what’s probably attracting them (especially when he takes the dogs for a walk). In turn, he’s so paranoid of getting EEE [Eastern Equine Encephilitis] that he douses himself with the nearest skeeter repellent before going outside. It doesn’t work :rolleyes:
I’ve noticed that the older I get, the less they bother me. I remember up until a few years ago I’d be their major feast the minute I opened the back door. Nowadays I’ll have a bite here and there, but that’s it shrug
Try vitamin B-12? Or was it some other vitamin? The “smells bad to blood-suckers” thing.
'Skeeters love me when they can find me. (Type 0+.)
DEET and promithrin (sp?) are the only things that work over extended periods of time. Citronella works for a short while, but it’s not as effective as DEET and you need to reapply all the time. All the other cures (garlic, B-12) don’t seem to work in controlled tests.
I use DEET on my clothes and wear long sleeves when it’s really bad.
Check.
Check.
I’m going to pretend you didn’t just say that. :eek: 
Count me in the “Mosquitoes LURRRVE Me” camp. And inevitably one or two of those little buggers find their way into my underwear. :mad:
It can’t be the sugar, though. It just CAN’T.
No, I think it’s the bacteria on your skin eating the sugar (glucose? rock candy?) in your sweat that attracts the buggers.
As far as the results of controlled tests on mosquito bites and garlic consumption goes, that maybe true in experiments.
Then how about a string of garlic around your neck?
How about darker colored clothes. I know insects are atracted to white shirts and such. Perhaps more earthtones will help.
For example. A good friend and I used to fish together a lot. He was complaing about the insects one night and I looked over and his white t-shirt was covered with the little buggers. I told him they weren’t bothering me at all. I was wearing a green shirt. No bugs nada.
He put on a darker jacket and within minutes he was bug free. It’s just an idea.
good luck
(and yeah deet is the stuff)
Keeps the vampires away, too.
Oh yeah, the white shirt or bright colors attract the Daughters of Satan as well.
This includes getting rid of the white socks with your fancy sandals, bub. White is a neon sign to the critters saying, " All you can eat buffet".
If you do outside work, wear dark colors and spray them down ( without them being on you.) before you wear them. Spray your hat too.
I’m O +and haven’t had a problem in years. Blood type is nonsense.
you think maybe that’s how the vampire myth about garlic got started? folks knew that garlic kept mosquitos away so they figured it might work with vampires too.
http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mmosquitorepel.html
Get the StraightDope I think it agrees that Garlic is a natural mosquito repellent but DEET is better. I’d agree w/ that, however, I eat a LOT of garlic and NEVER buy DEET so thereya go.
I have stopped w/ the garlic before and it made a difference.
Citronella is crap, crap, crap. And I say that as a tree-hugging herbalist! I have no idea why it got a reputation as a bug repellant. There are so many better herbals out there. Catnip oil is great, but very expensive and hard to find (plus, it tends to attract cats…). Even eucalyptus is better than citronella!
But the best all-natural bug repellant that’s been studied and found anywhere near as effective as DEET is soybean oil.
Two years ago, I changed my herbal bug repellant formula, adding 2% soybean oil, and it’s fantastic.
Scroll down on this page for average length of effectiveness of various repellants in actual studies. 2% soybean oil is a very respectable 1.5 hours, comparable to a kid’s DEET spray (of 4.75% DEET).