What is the best way to repel mosquitos in Alaska?

Question

I am going on a trip up North and have heard that the Alaskan mosquitos are the baddest in the world. Does drinking Vitamin D milk help repel them? What else will work besides DEET?

Answer 1

cover every inch of your body in clothes. works every time.

Answer 2

If you want to avoid DEET (and you should!), do a Google search for natural mosquito repellants. Try Avon's Skin So Soft - it works for me and I am walking mosquito bait. Some say eating a lot of garlic (to the point where you smell of it yourself) will repel mosquitoes. Regardless, take protection seriously - you don't want West Nile!

Answer 3

I heard this about the Special Ops guys, they will eat the tip of a match, and the chemical in the match would ooze out of their pores, and repell insects. Granted, you would stink for a while, because it would be apart of you.

The one year I was up there, there was a forest fire, this killed off most of the insects, so that worked.
Unfortunatly, you just need to use a lot of Off! That is what I used, and they stayed away from me.

BTW, the Alaska state bird is the Mosquito, just so you know, lol.

Answer 4

Old wives' tales may work in other instances, but not on alaskan mosquitos. Get bug dope and keep yourself covered. Or don't shower for weeks -- the buildup doesn't really keep them off, but you can't feel them as much. Or don't come up here.

Answer 5

U almost take a bath in DEET at least 2 times a day.

Answer 6

garlic pills that you can pick up at GNC stores, take 4 in the morning and 4 in the evening, do it a couple of days before you leave to build up a garlic level in you blood, the smell wards off the mosquitoes.
Also eat plenty of " Kemshee"?, a South Korean dish, it is fermented cabbage with spices and vinegar, I ate plenty while in Panama. keeps them away, try it.

Answer 7

drinking a vitamin does not help repel mosquitoes in any way...
use some repellent lotion.