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Best Mosquito Repellents to Get You Through a Louisiana Summer
Consumer Reports released their top five mosquito repellants of 2020, and what is crazy is that nothing really changed in 2021. With so many of us planning to finally go out and enjoy our summer, it s probably best that we make plans to bathe in mosquito repellent that actually works. Leave it to folks in the south to be more scared of mosquitos than they are of alligators.
Every year without fail, my arms and legs suffer. Mosquitoes are all part of a club that wants to eat me alive. Wearing shorts and short sleeves is a must in the South, however, this always leads to bites, sores, scabs, and scars on my skin. Some mosquito repellents just don t work on me. I hate that feeling of nonstop itching.
Brian Moench and Courtney Henley, of Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, write that the habit of spraying poisons to fight mosquitoes is dangerous and counterproductive.
Your body might be a mosquito magnet
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It s mosquito season in South Texas. Do you feel like mosquitos single you out?
The truth is, mosquitos can be attracted to someone for a multitude of very natural reasons, and knowing some of those reasons could help you avoid the little suckers.
SIGHT, SMELL, AND CARBON DIOXIDE
According to Jonathan Day, a professor of medical entomology at the University of Florida, a mosquito has very keen sight and smell for an insect of its size.
Much like many sci-fi monsters, mosquitoes are attracted to darker and warmer colors, movement, and a variety of certain smells including carbon dioxide, lactic acid, acetone, estradiol (a breakdown product of estrogen), and good old-fashioned body odor. Carbon Dioxide, or CO2, is one of the bigger factors, considering us humans regularly release it by breathing.
Lower chemical level and use only after dark are new plan 9:26 pm, May 10, 2021 ×
Dead monarch butterflies were found across the Fargo area after aerial spraying in August 2020 to control mosquitoes. WDAY photo
MOORHEAD Moorhead is going to be using fewer chemicals this summer.
The City Council voted unanimously to pay a retainer fee for aerial spraying for mosquitoes but with a lesser amount of pesticide and only after dusk, and also agreed on a 5-3 vote to stop spraying weeds with herbicides in city parks and playgrounds for this year.
Despite agreeing to pay the $12,000 retainer fee for Airborne Vector Control of Halstad, Minn., to do aerial spraying, the city of Moorhead could still opt out of the pest control service this summer after a controversial spraying last August apparently was the cause of a massive kill-off of hundreds or thousands of endangered monarch butterflies.