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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

We have almost completely de-mosquitoed our place by simply planting 
marigolds in abundance and putting up lots of hummingbird feeders.  We also 
have lots of bats.  The first year we moved here you couldn't go outside 
after about 3 p.m. unless you wanted to be a major blood donor!   Now you 
can go out, enjoy a bbq or do some evening gardening with no problems at 
all.

Wiping your clothes down with fabric softener sheets helps.  Neither the 
ticks nor the mosquitoes like the stuff.

The ticks don't seem interested in humans around here and they rarely bother 
the dogs if we use herb collars.

We don't have chiggers and no-see-ums and black flies,  There were all on 
the list of things we choose not to live with and why we marked a lot of 
places off possibles to buy.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bobf" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>


> I haven't an idea just how effective these items are except for the reviews 
> I have read, which were positive. There are more than these two brands. 
> Take from it what you will