What is the best way to kill mosquitoes?

The best way is to use as many ways as possible. I grew up in So. Florida (can you say Everglades?) and they've always been particularly fond of me, so I have had a LOT of experience with the little $@%#*s.

1) Bug spray containing a high percentage of DEET (like 40%). All products containing DEET are labeled as to the %. Not all DEET sprays are created equal. Look for a clue such as "Deep Woods". The non-aerosol tend to be higher percentages too, either pump or the little bottles of liquid. Cover yourself well concentrating on openings but don't neglect the clothes themselves.

2) Make sure that there is no standing water anywhere around your house.

3) Use Citronella containing candles.

4) Get a "bug zapper" or two.

5) There are plug in pest repellents that work on high frequency sound. I can't vouch for them (hard to prove) but I do use them. Supposed to work on mice too.

6) Garlic sounds like a good idea. I take it anyway but never thought of it in relation to mosquitoes. "They" make an odorless aged garlic (Kyolic?) tablet/capsule that helps decrease or eliminate the anti-social tendencies of raw garlic.

7) Move to Death Valley, the Mojave, the Sahara, or any other desert area that might be more practical for you. Do NOT move to Alaska. They grow 'em big and plenty there. Less water=less mosquitoes. Temp doesn't seem to matter much to them. :-) :-) :-)

Ways To Kill Mosquitoes

Best Way To Kill Mosquitoes

critterman51 is correct. By incorporating garlic into your diet, you will get fewer bites. Where I live now we don't really have much of a mosquito problem, and I might only get 3 or 4 bites all summer. But growing up in eastern Canada many years ago, those little suckers were everywhere. You couldn't make it from your car to the door of your house without being eaten alive!

Garlic also has many medicinal and antibacterial properties as well. Some people have reported that even blood from a garlic eater can kill bacteria! After taking garlic for awhile, some of its properties will be secreted through the pours of your skin. The mosquito will sense that you're not tasty, and avoid you.

Cooked garlic loses many of these properties, so it's better to be taken raw. If you have an aversion to garlic, try taking it in capsule form. The magic chemical in garlic is called Allicin. It is produced, and more prominent when garlic is finely chopped or crushed. The finer the chopping and the more intensive the crushing, the more allicin is generated and the stronger the effect.

http://www.savatree.com/garlic-insect-repellent.ht...

Garlic Mosquito Barrier:

http://www.dirtworks.net/Mosquito-Barrier.html

Garlic will also ward off other bloodsuckers like vampires too!

*Edit - Killer Peaches...yes fire is a known deterrent. I was going to suggest a tiger torch, or a small flame thrower! lol

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What is the best way to kill mosquitoes?

I've tried using the OFF stuff on my skin and I still have 4 bites on me. I'm allergic to mosquito bites so I'm in extreme pain right now. There are also mosquitoes where ever I go so it's quite annoying to have to but on the spray every morning and night (I get bitten a lot at...

Put some Listerine or the cheap off brands of Listerine work well. Put in a spray bottle cut it with water a 50/50 mixture. Spray it around the neighboring area you will be at. There's an ingredient that deter the mosquitoes also you can squirt this on you. Just a light mist will work fine. I use this myself and have not had any issues. For the bites you already have dab some vinegar on the bites and it will take the itching away.

If there are bats in your area, look into having a bat house installed under the eave of your house. Bats can eat up to 600 mosquitoes in an hour and if they have a nice cozy place to sleep, they'll hang around and put a serious dent in your mosquito population.

Try some self defense like taking B vitamins and eating garlic. Taking B vitamins somehow gives off an odor or something that makes you not so delectable to them; and I believe garlic does also. You need to fix the screens in your house and be sure you have a good seal around your doors (and be sure they stay shut) to be sure they don't get in there. You can also use spray around the inside and outside of your doors to deter them from even coming close to coming in. Be sure at night that your outside lights are brighter than you inside lights so they are not attracted in by that.

In the case that you would like to eradicate those already in your house you could use a bug bomb.

Hope this helps.

* yes the bat house idea is great too! So long as you don't mind bats.

You can't get rid of all of them. Research garlic and mosquitoes. I live near a swamp and I am rarely bitten. When I stopped eating garlic for awhile they attacked. EDIT Mosquitoes are first attracted to your exhaled breath containing carbon dioxide and water vapor. They use that to find you. Then they use scent and body heat to decide if they are going to and exactly where to bite. They want to bite a slightly warmer spot because that indicates a good blood flow.

ok as per my knowlege mosquito repellents do not kill mosquitos....... it justs keeps them away from the area in which the repellent is installed.........In other words the mosquito repellent makes it difficult for the mosquito to breath and thus it avoids that area and thus you are preventad from getting bitten.