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Questions and Answers - Help! Being bitten to death
Marino - June 30, 2009 - 07:28 AM
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I know that this is mosquito season but last night must have been one of the worst. Has anyone ever seen in Shanghai the foggers that you add water to and then leave the area for 5 hours? Those plug in ones and the blue lights don't do anything.
Or~ if you have another solution, pls suggest.
yu888 - June 30, 2009 - 07:44 AM
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1) install window screen to your windows - they are well worth the price
2) Get mosquito Magnets installed if youa re talking about outdoor coverage- see Villa Lifestyles
Marino - June 30, 2009 - 08:13 AM
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Thanks you888. We actually have screens on ALL the windows. I will have a look at the magnets you mention to install in the garden.
Thanks again!
huangheilong - June 30, 2009 - 10:27 AM
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Move to an apt on a >10 floor
Not one single mosquito.
edbreejen - June 30, 2009 - 11:14 AM
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Moving higher up should >>10 floor. We live on the 15th and still have them (before on the 18th and also had them).
ziccawei - June 30, 2009 - 11:19 AM
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I live on the 14th floor and I get the occasional one - Maybe they take the lift. I sleep with a fan on in the room and they usually can't stand that.
dfoo - June 30, 2009 - 11:25 AM
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Certainly on the 12th floors they are very popular... The raid heater thing works, but I have a suspicion its not very good for you!
smiling123 - June 30, 2009 - 12:12 PM
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I live on the 5th floor, lots of masquitos, just like they are waiting for me outside to open the door everyday I back from work, I am thinking to buy the Raid water and heater, they don't work? what should I do then...Sad
prego2000 - June 30, 2009 - 12:19 PM
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I sleep with a fan on in the room and they usually can't stand that.

They don't mind the altitude at the 15th floor so much but a fan blasting me at night is like them trying to land their little F-18 asses on the deck of a carrier in the middle of a hurricane. Plus, it keeps me cool at night.
Mr Totomolo - June 30, 2009 - 12:22 PM
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We live on the 4th floor, facing a lush garden, a waterfall and a big fish pond
last year, we had quite a lot of mosquitoes, in spite of 2 (big ) electric killers with blue lamps (the same kind they have in alldays shops).

This year, we went to a small store behind our compound, and ordered 2 custom-made retractable mesh window screens to be fitted on the balcony sliding window (130 RMB each for a 1200 x 80 mm size each)

Not a single mosquito in 2009... Wonderful wink2
trader889 - June 30, 2009 - 01:04 PM
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This won't help with killing the mosquitoes, but at least you will be able to sleep better. Try the mosquito netting to put over your bed, if they pestering you at night. We bought ours at Carrefour in Gubei. Works great. Also, use insect repellent with Deet. Again, Carrefour carries Off with Deet as well as Johnson's Baby insect repellent, which surprisingly has a slightly higher concentration of Deet (11.5%) than the Off. From what I read, you want at least 10%.
kakai - July 02, 2009 - 10:37 PM
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or you can try to get some plants called Qu Wen Cao from the florist that deters the mozzies with its scent
Cambronne - July 02, 2009 - 11:28 PM
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Move to an apt on a >10 floor
Not one single mosquito.


Live on the 26th floor. We have plenty of mosquitoes. Whats your theory?
Shangstar - July 02, 2009 - 11:44 PM
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I have electronic/ultrasonic plug in repellants in each room, blue electric smelly things, and spray Raid about the house every day (I am in a house). Nothing, and I mean nothing, comes anywhere near my place. I also have netting installed around my bed - a DIY kit which is pretty simply to set up costs 200 RMB from Carrefour (Cloud 9).
shinrai - July 03, 2009 - 01:28 AM
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^ me too. I was getting eaten alive and I found that the raid plug in ones with the liquid bottles that screw into the plug housing work wonders. now if i only knew what that stuff is doing to my health......
victorinchina - July 03, 2009 - 08:01 AM
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^ Yep, we use that thing too. 1 in the bedroom.
If it is turned off, I'll get bitten during the night for sure, if it is on then nothing.

Another thing: If you hang your clothes to dry outside, be sure to shake it (is that the word?) really good before taking it back in house. The mosq's will stay in your clothes and make an attack central from your clothe closet.
leonard_moon - July 03, 2009 - 08:08 AM
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Help! Being bitten to death

I usually have to pay extra for that
Marino - July 03, 2009 - 08:53 AM
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That's great advice. I'll go and pick up the raid plug in things today. Thanks everyone!
handage - July 03, 2009 - 09:24 AM
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find someone with tastier blood to sleep with Very Happy
victorinchina - July 03, 2009 - 09:32 AM
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^ It would most likely be a lot cheaper to go with the Raid Plug-in solution Wink
yu888 - July 03, 2009 - 10:59 AM
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The higher one lives the less mosquitos UNLESS you live in a location where the mosquitos are smart and take the lift too, or some idiot neighbor part wat up has standing water somewhere and becomes a source of new mosquitos OR... if your toilet bowl tanks have not been cleaned awhile and the eggs from the reserve tanks on your roof have actually hatched in your toilet tank after a recent flushing or the reserves and such. nasty thought but it happens more often than you think. There is a reason one shoulc run the water a few mins before use after everyt time the cleanthose tanks.

As for Cambronne, the mozzies probably just like your sweet french itailan consiracy theorist blood and so they will go to great lengths to hunt you down. or maybe they are zionists? Smile hows that for conspiracy?
foreverinchina - July 03, 2009 - 11:13 AM
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yu888 wrote:
As for Cambronne, the mozzies probably just like your sweet french itailan consiracy theorist blood and so they will go to great lengths to hunt you down. or maybe they are zionists? Smile hows that for conspiracy?


Don't know why but I feel you don't like Cambronne ...
What happened between you both ?
dfoo - July 03, 2009 - 12:22 PM
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Good one yu. We noticed lots of mosquitos in the bathroom, and we found them hatching in the toilet tank.
Medea - July 16, 2009 - 02:22 PM
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trader889 wrote:
This won't help with killing the mosquitoes, but at least you will be able to sleep better. Try the mosquito netting to put over your bed, if they pestering you at night. We bought ours at Carrefour in Gubei. Works great. Also, use insect repellent with Deet. Again, Carrefour carries Off with Deet as well as Johnson's Baby insect repellent, which surprisingly has a slightly higher concentration of Deet (11.5%) than the Off. From what I read, you want at least 10%.


This Johnson's Baby stuff is really great. Using it since last week and hardly any new bites. Bought this anti-itching gel too.

We are living 5th floor and have mosquito netting at the windows. Until today we only had one mosquito.
We are using raid plugs in the bathrooms at night.

However I had (felt like thousand) mosquito bites on my legs. Husband didn't. Tried netting for bed - still no change.
Well, then I realized that they bite me in broad daylight when I'm walking the dog and feeding the stray cats of our compound Laughing
ScottN - July 16, 2009 - 04:10 PM
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I think we are super lucky, but so far we haven't had a single mosquito in our apartment or anywhere really in the neighborhood. I think the management sprays some sort of death juice on everything in the whole area, but whatever it is - it works. We live on the 7th floor...the height theory isn't that solid.
CoffeeHawk_0 - July 16, 2009 - 09:53 PM
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FYI - google for foods you can eat that make you less tasty to the mosquitos. Works very well.

and smoke a lot
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