2003 - Volume #27, Issue #4, Page #05
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Mosquito Lore
• Use Bounce Fabric Softener sheets as a moquito repellant. Just wipe on and go. Great for babies.• Some fishermen take a 100 mg. B-1 vitamin tablet every day, April through October. One man has done it for 33 years and claims he never gets bitten.
• If you eat bananas, mosquitos like you. Something about banana oil attracts biting insects. Stop eating bananas and you'll get fewer bites.
• One of the best insect repellants, according to legend, is Vick's Vaporub.
• Plant marigolds around the yard. The flowers give off a smell that mosquitos, and other bugs, do not like.
• One of the best natural insect repellants is real vanilla.
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