I’m tired of mosquitos biting me. If i can’t stop them biting me, the next best thing is to stop them biting me a second time. So what’s the best (safe for me) way to make myself poisonous to mosquitos, and optionally other bugs that might bite me?
The trick is finding a pesticide that the LD50 for mosquitoes is less then humans and take an amount constantly to maintain lethal to mosquito blood levels that isn’t lethal to humans.
If you want more details I can’t help because this idea is really dumb.
What does LD50 even mean?
The value of LD50 for a substance is the dose required to kill half the members of a tested population after a specified test duration
This is, effectively, how oral flee/tick medications work in animals. It basically turns the animal’s blood into a mild poison. The poison is mild enough that it doesn’t affect the animal but it’s enough to kill small insects like flees, ticks, or mosquitoes.
The LD50 is usually expressed as the mass of substance administered per unit mass of test subject, typically as milligrams of substance per kilogram of body mass, sometimes also stated as nanograms (suitable for botulinum), micrograms, or grams (suitable for paracetamol) per kilogram. Stating it this way allows the relative toxicity of different substances to be compared and normalizes for the variation in the size of the animals exposed (although toxicity does not always scale simply with body mass).
I do three things and mosquitos avoid me: I eat a ton of garlic, I take a ton of drugs, and I smoke a ton of weed. My blood is semisolid.
After I got long covid mosquitos stopped trying to eat me lol.
So maybe sickness helps idk.
Permethrin clothing. Works fucking amazing. I have a jumpsuit treaded with it, kills ticks, mosquitoes, black flies. Not just repel but kill on contact!
Permethrin is toxic to cats; however, it has little effect on dogs. Many cats die after being given flea treatments intended for dogs, or by contact with dogs having recently been treated with permethrin. In cats it may induce hyperexcitability, tremors, seizures, and death.
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Thanks for the info. I have 3 cats and I was about to look into this.
That said, prethreated clothing should be fine to have around cats as long as they aren’t actively licking/eating them.
My cats are a bit special so I wouldn’t put it past them.
Your link is about a medicine/spray. Where are you finding the clothing?
I’ve treated my hunting clothing with permethrin when we were going to an area that was known to have an extremely heavy tick population. We had a spray bottle of the stuff, and did a thick coating all over our outer gear, and then allowed it to dry. Permethrin is fairly low toxicity for humans & dogs, but absolutely killer for mosquitoes and ticks. Worked like a charm!
Army combat uniforms even come pretreated with it.
I think sugar makes you more attractive to mosquitoes. I know from first-hand experience that if you’re always hung over, and you smoke cigarettes, then the city mosquitos will leave you alone. The high country mosquitos don’t give a fuck though, they’ll take whatever they can get. Otherwise you want 97% DEET. Don’t bother with any other stuff, it doesn’t work. 97% DEET! Someone’s going to come along and say “nooo, skin so soft mixed with water repels mosquitoes!”. They’re liars. 97% DEET.
Pretty sure I just stumbled onto the orgins story for a radioactive super villain.
Diet, people with diabetes are more delicious.
- Keto - changes your blood sugar and hormones probably having the biggest impact
- SPICY food, hot peppers, hot chilies, also have a impact
- Garlic - also repels some bugs
Ever walk into a room, get overwhelmed with the smell of garlic? And there’s no garlic in the room, just people who eat garlic? It’s like that but stronger because mosquitoes have a better sense of smell
Non-diet interventions
- Sit in front of a fan, or strong wind, mosquitoes can’t fly very hard, so they cannot fight a breeze
- When outside keep moving, don’t stay still
Ever walk into a room, get overwhelmed with the smell of garlic? And there’s no garlic in the room, just people who eat garlic?
I’m suddenly very self-conscious in a way I’ve never felt before
