Date:         Thu, 8 Jul 2004 23:32:19 -0500
Reply-To:     Joel Walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET>
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From:         Joel Walker <jwalker17@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject:      Re: Eliminating mosquitoes while camping
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> If you google    mosquito lemon fresh joy   you'll get a large
number of
> hits saying it's an urban legend.

from what i have seen, skeeters and ticks and such are guided to their
victims by being able to follow carbon dioxide emissions ... you
breathe, and they can find you. once they get within a short distance,
they can find you by the heat of your body. supposedly, the best
skeeter-killers put out lots of co2 and sucker the beasties in to
their death. ;)

but i do recall some dim memory about fleas being killed by the dish
of water with a drop of detergent ... seems the detergent reduced the
surface tension of the water enough that the fleas couldn't skate on
it ... so they sank and drowned. but i don't know if that's a fact or
not ... could be another legend. we just always picked 'em off with
tweezers and smacked 'em with a hammer. ;)

joel