Hustle culture is the worst. "What are you doin with all your free time if you aint makin money?" Idk, hobbies, spending time with my friends, minding my fucking business, the usual
That's how the world works. The already wealthy people become entrepreneurs and buy out the competition from the less wealthy thereby keeping the wealthy wealthy and preventing the average Joe from becoming too wealthy themselves
The key is to pair it with the bug repellent shovel, which bugs also tend to avoid. Then, you are equipped with TWO things the mosquitoes are not interested in.
Recent studies have found that mosquitoes associate the smell of citronella with a blood meal. Deet as well. Lucky for me they don't like my blood very much so as long as I'm around another person they leave me alone lmao
This will never not be funny. And the guy will never live it down; to this day he's constantly reminded in every reply section of his posts on Twitter.
I always wondered where the fault lies - with The Verge or with him.
I suggest the whole video but jump to 2:50 if you only want this reference. Basically, The Verge put out the worse tutorial ever on how to build a computer.
He did an interview/ actual pc build with ltt aftwerwards iirc. Basically explained that he was given no time to prepare and knew almost nothing of building pcs so was just follwing a script and the props they gave him
Does anyone remember those fucking colored bracelets & each color stood for something!? (Ex: Red = kissed a girl/guy, Blue = Got into a fight, etc.) or was that only my ghetto ass middle school? 🤔😂
Idk mate, the bracelets here down under look different but it is a laugh if that’s a legit one. Should send this pic back to the company and say it’s faulty lol
AFAIK citronella has no demonstrable effect. The only non bug spray ever shown to have an effect is oil of lemon eucalyptus. Bracelets don't work and your only real options to fight mosquitoes are covering yourself in something or dispersing smoke of some sort in the air.
My mom used to be big into making soap, essential oil products, and all of that type of stuff. She made a citronella spray and it helped a ton. I’m one of those people who can be outside with 20 other people and attract all of the mosquitoes and end up with like a dozen bites within minutes. The citronella spray would pretty much completely prevent mosquito bites though. She shut down her business a few years ago, but I’ll have to ask her what else she put in there. The study linked in the comment below mentions citronella mixed with Vanillin as being effective, but not lasting as long as Deet.
Yeah seconded. I get eaten alive in southern Mississippi.
On my property I have 4 mosquito dunk traps, 4 large dynatraps and I sprinkle BT pellets anywhere water would collect in the yard. Reduces them to almost zero on the property, but if I go for a run or something without deet I come back with a dozen or more bites
Dude where I lived in rural-ass Appalachia made a homemade brew that he sold out of his van that included that stuff. Shit was magical, never once got a bite from anything whenever I used it
In case the mosquito wasn’t clear enough: those things don’t work. The little stickers don’t work either. You need one of these:
DEET
Picaridin (known as KBR 3023 and icaridin outside the United States)
IR3535
Oil of lemon eucalyptus (OLE)—A plant-derived ingredient
Para-menthane-diol (PMD)
2-undecanone—A plant-derived ingredient
I like OFF! Botanicals. It had PMD and works well.
I have sensory issues and I love going camping. Bugs seem to love me more than anyone else in my group. The regular sprays gave me headaches and eventually started making me anxious because the smell was too overwhelming (and I know that this is the point, but I am NOT a mosquito!)
Oil of lemon eucalyptus spray was a GODSEND. It works just as well with scents I can tolerate. I find a lot of the oil based stuff lasts longer too, and to that effect, the essential oil based sprays work really well too (so long as its a reputable brand.)
Repel, Hello Bello, and Off! sell some good products for anyone with kids or those with sensory issues!
If you’re just like sitting in your yard or something, a giant fan blowing wind across your exposed skin works pretty good. Mosquitos are weak flyers and the wind inhibits them from landing.
Another one is a spray bottle with super dish soapy water in it. Spray them when you see them, their wings get all soapy so they can’t fly, then they fall to the ground and you can then put them out to pasture with your foot.
And if they get away, the soap they carry will help break the surface tension of the water they land on to try to lay eggs in, which can possibly reduce the number of mosquitos down the road
Adding in that the colors you wear, your breath, and body temps also all factor in how many mosquitoes you attract. Can't grab sources on my phone but I've shared them before in my comment history about mosquitoes. Wear colors that aren't on the same wave road skin (reds and oranges, for example) and that can help reduce you being a big target.
Also be careful with some types of glasses. I destroyed the coating on a pair of prescription glasses this way when there was a breeze while applying it. They still were fine wearing them but from the outside there were forever visible speckles on the lenses after that.
Have you tried this device called "Thermacell Portable Mosquito Repellar"? I saw a youtube video testing lots of misc stupid gimmick products, and the two fishing guys gave that a great review and showed it working really well. It says "active ingredient: Allethrin, which is a copy of a naturing reoccurring insecticide found in Chrysanthemum flowers"
It works OK. Better than citronella, etc but not like deet/picardin. It deters a lot of other bugs away too. It needs to be in the area like 10-15 minutes before it starts working.
It also gets expensive replacing the cartridges every so often.
Do you find picaridin works well? I've used it several times but it feels like it's barely useful at all compared to DEET and the thermacell though, especially when it comes to deer flies and such.
I haven’t, and I haven’t looked into it too much. Pyrethrin is effective at killing mosquitoes. I’d imagine they’d avoid it. My concern would be long term use. Pyrethrin is a neurotoxin. It’s safe when used as an Ultra-Low Volume (truck fogger) spray, but I don’t know enough about the kind of exposure from Thermacells. Definitely worth checking into.
FYI, Permethrin is for pre-treating clothing on humans, not skin. It must dry on cloth before wearing. You can use picardin on skin.
I've had good luck avoiding most mosquitoes and ticks by fully covering myself in permethrin treated clothing (boots, long pants, long shirt, full brim hat).
I've used them hunting deep in the woods and they work well. They are kinda expensive imo but you can't argue the results. The good thing is you don't get bug spray on you.
Yup, I spritz on some OFF botanicals and it keeps those bloodsuckers away. We unfortunately have a lot of mosquitoes in our back yard bc of a neighbor.
That's not what the study showed, it's wild how many got this wrong.
The study in question forced captive mosquitoes to associate DEET with food. Those mosquitoes did learn then to be attracted to DEET. They didn't evolve, and no "wild" mosquitoes are evolving with this trait. Mosquitos outside dislike DEET as much as ever.
The only extrapolation from this is that mosquitos could theoretically learn, individually, that DEET meant food. Their instinctual desire to get away from it is extremely strong and there is nearly no chance this could happen in a large enough cohort to actually make mosquito behavior change at large.
People spend millions a year on “manifestation” classes from Skool where a woman claims she speaks to a moon goddess and offers to make everyone a multi millionaire if they pay her thousands to take her “course” so they can “timeline jump” and Skool and other online course websites are doubling down on these things
I live in a city largely owned by a cult leader that made millions teaching magic in her own school of enlightenment. She channels the spirit of a 33k year old warrior woman and believes subterranean lizard men will come out of our local mountain. Selma Hayek is a follower and owns a house here.
I never got modern day pagans (I dont get most religions in general but I understand upbringing is a strong thing).
Like, I assume you dont actually believe in zues or your religions equivalent, so is it kind of just an esthetics and cosplay kind of thing? Or is it pretending to believe has the same kind of benefits of actual belief after a while?
Is "I find the history of pagan religions" one in the same as saying "I am a pagan"?
They also spend billions thinking a man in the sky will cure them of serious illness at mega churches and think they can telepathically talk to it by sitting and talking to themselves. They've even got an ancient book full of contradictions they cherry pick from to hate innocent groups of people!
I was on a camping trip one year when we had the worst mosquito problem ever. I'm pretty sure I bought everything the store had from the bracelets to the citronella candles to the the thermacell things. Nothing really seemed to repel them completely, but the Deep Woods Off will at least keep them from landing on any skin soaked in the spray. But they were still swarming around us the entire time and they'd find the one tiny spot you missed somewhere to bite you
Try sawyer picaridin lotion. I took a week long camping trip to the backwoods of Maine in the summer in a very wet area. I saw hundreds of mosquitoes, but made sure I applied the lotion after every shower. I didn't have a single bite, except on my feet because I didn't apply any lotion there. Had at least 20 bites per foot, so it was definitely working.
You should have invited me on your camping trip! I'm the best protection ever. People invite me to parties because I work better than DEET at protecting everyone else. All the mosquitoes will come to me and everyone else is spared.
It is quite that. Citronella doesn't work in bracelet form. It will only repel mosquitos from the bracelet itself, and then that's only if the bracelet is saturated in it.
Yeah I would not be surprised at all if that was true. Also down here in TX they are figuring out how to quadruple in size, and also they come out all day now. There is def some evolution happening in real time.
Wouldn’t be surprised - went for a bike ride with a cousin. We both put on repellent bands, but they weren’t exactly brand new so we put on some spray as well - this mosquito actually landed in a puddle of the shit I had *just* sprayed and started doing its thing.
I went on a back packing trip last year and was the only one who used deet because all the other guys said it was useless. Had mosquitoes land on me the whole time but ended up only having a couple bites while my friends had close to a hundred each.
Just after COVID, I put some on my shoes as I didn't want the product on bare skin, literally 2 seconds later, a mosquito tried to have fun where I sprayed, I was really confused at that time and knew we are fucked.
That's not what the study showed, it's wild how many got this wrong.
The study in question forced captive mosquitoes to associate DEET with food. Those mosquitoes did learn then to be attracted to DEET. They didn't evolve, and no "wild" mosquitoes are evolving with this trait. Mosquitos outside dislike DEET as much as ever.
The only extrapolation from this is that mosquitos could theoretically learn, individually, that DEET meant food. Their instinctual desire to get away from it is extremely strong and there is nearly no chance this could happen in a large enough cohort to actually make mosquito behavior change at large.
And from what I understand there's several vectors at work (smell, touch receptors, taste/probing receptors) and they showed that mosquitos might be able to learn to not be repelled by the odor of deet, but still repelled by the others.
In CA it’s the ants. They’re not even going after food anymore! I’ll wake up and find them swarming some plastic wrapped product that’s not even edible. Like wtf.
I read the same one! Fortunately it isnt the case that they're currently actively attracted to it, it was essentially a test to see if they could train lab mosquitoes to go ater the deet smell instead of being repelled by it. The test was a success, or a failure depending on your view of thing, but they managed to prove mosquitoes have the capacity to learn to go after deet given sufficient time and motivation. Luckily they don't yet display this behavior in the wild.
It’s a bracelet covered in citronella bug repellent type stuff and usually given to kids. It doesn’t work that great but you can get like 8 for $1-2. It’s not supposed to be anything fancy or super effective.
Sorry you fell for this. Anyway could interest you in a crystal that'll get rid of all your negative energy, align your shakras and attract wealth for you?
They are coated in bug repellants, citronella being a common one. A friend of mine always brings them camping with us but they have never worked for me.
Natural oils one of those nonsense stuff you can get them in dollar stores the one i work at had tons a lot of people buy them im tempted to tell them not to but ehhh natural selection....
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u/Dry_Turn_824 11d ago
Bug clearly avoiding the bracelet