holy fuck. this weekend, I tried to go down to a patch of persimmons I know about near the Wabash River, and the mosquitoes literally stopped us. It has never been that bad. At that point, if there was no car invovled, i would have set that whole fucking forest on fire. seriously. it WAS that bad.
usually, I have no problems with them. My lack of soap and processed foods is usually enough. But sometimes, it’s not a good time to leave the nest 
…you mean other than humans?!.. ;D I’d have to say head-lice…
Alex
Nonhemophagic predatory treehole mosquitos are my friends. And mosqito fish(Gambusia). Epazote leaves crushed and rubbed on the skin. Camphor weed is just as good and these two plants will also keep gnats out of your ears.
Who else out there has hoarded mosquito head nets?
I have tried tansy crushed and rubbed on my skin with some success.
Tansy is very rare here.
I’ve read that American Beautyberry leaves can repel mosquitos if you rub them on your skin, but I haven’t tried it yet. They grow everywhere here.
If you have wild tarragon growing, that can work as a rub-on repellant.
Yeah, I thought this post would be about humans. Mosquitoes aren’t that bad. I swell up and itch like crazy from mosquito in most locales. (I have noticed a difference in allergic reactions in very different geographic locations.) But seriously, humans are way worse.
Depends on the human, don’t you think? !Kung ‘bushmen’ rock pretty hard. So do Guarani of Peru. So do Maori. And Buryat of Siberia. And the Saami of Northern Europe. And the Inuit. And Hopi. And Taos Pueblo (some of my cousins!).
This list could go on for a while I guess.
Hell yes! I believe so!
I’ve just notice big time that I have a hard time responding to b-English now that I’ve become an e-primer, in fact, sometimes I don’t respond at all or simple say, “I don’t understand†or “no comment.†Altogether, I just don’t understand b-English and when I act like I do, such as in the presence of my wage-slave bosses, landlords, or jury duty who know no other way, I know that deep down inside myself I’ve joined into foggy conversation and demanding relationship.
Check out Penny's yarrow tincture on Scout's blog: Whiskey in the Yarrow!
Does this tincture require fresh flowers, or will dried yarrow do? I’m thinking of making some, but it’ll be some time until I gather some fresh.
Yeah, Trump, the Rockefellers, Politicians…
I just want to see them fly aboard a rocket to the center of the sun.
Just to show how insignificant they are.
Mosquitoes don’t really bother me anymore, if I see some I usually just let them take a sip of my red wine.
Now if I come down with West Nile virus, that’s when I break out the blowtorch!
[quote=“Willem, post:21, topic:365”]Depends on the human, don’t you think? !Kung ‘bushmen’ rock pretty hard. So do Guarani of Peru. So do Maori. And Buryat of Siberia. And the Saami of Northern Europe. And the Inuit. And Hopi. And Taos Pueblo (some of my cousins!).
This list could go on for a while I guess.[/quote]
Though the maori wiped out the moa… Pre agriculture humuans weren’t as cool as you would think… Just take a look on all the species we wiped out while moving to europe(mamooth, almost wild horse, hairy rhino, etc) and all the species the native americans wiped out when they came to america(american cheeta, american camel, giant sloth, mamoth(here to) etc.)
I say humans as general probably is the worst disaster that happend to gaia…
I’d like to add that beautyberry leaves work! And they don’t stink the way bug spray does.
[quote=“Ravn, post:25, topic:365”]Though the maori wiped out the moa… Pre agriculture humuans weren’t as cool as you would think… Just take a look on all the species we wiped out while moving to europe(mamooth, almost wild horse, hairy rhino, etc) and all the species the native americans wiped out when they came to america(american cheeta, american camel, giant sloth, mamoth(here to) etc.)
I say humans as general probably is the worst disaster that happend to gaia…[/quote]
Actually, I thought the general consensus now-a-days held that humans didn’t cause the extinction of the mammoth…
Yea, the Holocene extinction thing is now almost entirely attributed to climate change. The only people who cling on to the idea that the ancestors of some indigenous people did it have shown to have huge racial and cultural prejudices.
I think it’s silly to think that humans can be innocent of causing ecological disruption in a new environment, up to and including extinctions. Plants and animals do it all the time. It’s the sentiment behind people putting forth the idea that can be problematic.
Although the Maori caused the extinction of the Moa, when europeans turned up the Maori had enforced their own laws on hunting seasons of birds etc, I’m not sure on the timeline of that, but that was definately the case.
When humans first came to America they too, cause extinction of a few species (it talks about it in Tendign the Wild), but then look, they became possible the best keepers of the ecosystem in history.
I don’t see humans as evil, just civilisation, something about those who lived more primitive ways tended to make a mistake and make a quick turn around and learn how to live with their new environment… civilisation tries to change the entire environment to suit them.
My best trick for Skeeters: Don’t smack them. They’re like little syringes and when you smack them, that’s what makes the bites itchy and swollen. Just calmly wipe them off, or just don’t think about them. This actually works! I remember these old-timers in Maine used to just have skeeters sucking on their face and it didn’t bother them at all! After a while, they just don’t leave itchy bites.
Yep that’s right. Mozzys cause the release of Histamine which I’ve read that the cells that release this substance are affected by thought and can be “mind over mattered”