listerine as a mosquito control

11 years ago

Friend at pool this am told us about this and I found the following info in a search. So I'm sharing with you!

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Subject: mosquito killer

The best way of getting rid of mosquitoes is Listerine, the original medicinal type. The Dollar Store-type works, too. I was at a deck party awhile back, and the bugs were having a ball biting everyone. A man at the party sprayed the lawn and deck floor with Listerine, and the little demons disappeared. The next year I filled a 4-ounce spray bottle and used it around my seat whenever I saw mosquitoes. And voila! That worked as well. It worked at a picnic where we sprayed the area around the food table, the children's swing area, and the standing water nearby. During the summer, I don't leave home without it.....Pass it on.

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I tried this on my deck and around all of my doors. It works - in fact, it killed them instantly. I bought my bottle from Target and it cost me $1.89. It really doesn't take much, and it is a big bottle, too; so it is not as expensive to use as the can of spray you buy that doesn't last 30 minutes. So, try this, please. It will last a couple of days. Don't spray directly on a wood door (like your front door), but spray around the frame. Spray around the window frames, and even inside the dog house if you have one.

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golfergrrl
11 years ago
False.

Here is a link that might be useful: SNOPES
glenda_al
Original Author
11 years ago
Not so! Maybe for you!

My fried swears by it and my DIL uses it at their home.
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I dilute cheap mouthwash with half water in a spray bottle and I find it makes a significant difference. There are different varieties of mosquitoes, though, perhaps it works better for some than others?
pudgeder
11 years ago
I use a mixture of 1 part beer, 1 part listerine (or the cheapest brand) and 1 part epsom salts.

About 2 cups of each, put it in one of those sprayers you put on the end of your garden hose and spray the yard & house. Keeps the mosquitoes away until it rains.
Jodi_SoCal
11 years ago
I live in Southern California. Don't see skeeters here. :-)

One of the hardest decisions I have to make as a world traveler is to decide if I want to travel to a mosquito heavy location. I appear to most mosquitoes to be some sort of delicacy and they fight over me, I swear! LOL

I HATE mosquitoes!!!

Hope you find that Listerine works.

Jodi-
lindyluwho
11 years ago
It works for me.

Linda
glenda_al
Original Author
11 years ago
I just tried it tonite and WOW it works!

Sit on the porch for a time, nightly, and sprayed it around and bug free. Even there was an absence of the camel flies, that are brownish and look like beetles, and the moths that fly around the front porch light. NONE!
vannie
11 years ago
I have a friend that does the liquid Joy and water thing and he swears it works for him. They can find me in an instant, yet don't bother DH at all. The ones this year are bigger and blacker and hurt. I got a bite between 2 fingers and that was a new one. I hate when they get on my face. I wanta rip their little legs off. Off!! Now that doesn't work.
jennmonkey
11 years ago
Well, I hardly think any product knocks mosquitoes "dead from the sky" (they'd be millionaires if someone figured that one out!), which is what the snopes is disproving, but that doesn't mean the scent of listerine won't deter them.

I will certainly give it a try. I'm thinking I might just try to spray it directly on me next time I'm camping. I refuse to use OFF or DEET containing products because I would prefer a few mosquito bites over putting toxic substances directly on to my skin. If I were to ever travel to a place where I had to worry about malaria, I would consider the poison.

I currently use an all natural lotion that contains citronella and a few other things that works really well, but it bothers my asthma because it's so strong smelling. You also have to apply it quite often. I think it's called Buzz Off.

So I'd be willing to give the Listerine a try.
liz
11 years ago
Glenda...those camel flies are awful...I'm gonna try it cause I'm being eaten alive just stepping outside!

Jodi...my mom always told me told me it's cause I'm so sweet...so just consider yourself sweet!! they don't like sourpusses!! LOL
glenda_al
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11 years ago
I don't think you should spray this directly on you.

Before I went outside, I sprayed all around, and when I was sitting I just sprayed around me.

Liz, I sprayed the bricks where those camel flies like to hangout and after I sprayed they never clung to the bricks. Just didn't see any of those critters.

Will see what happens tonite.

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