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[-] considine@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago

DDT is an extreme way to get rid of mosquitos. Seal up the gaps in your window screens. Keep the bedroom door closed. It's working for me during mosquito season on the subtropical island where I live.

I realize I'm giving advice to a comic about a banned chemical.

[-] IMongoose@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago
[-] massacre@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Bedbugs have evolved resistance to DDT.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

DDT is what killed off Malaria in Europe (and probably in most of the US too, but I don't know as much about that).
It saved a hundred thousand times more lives than it may have cost.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Citronella candles do an all right job too if you don't mind the smell.

[-] myster0n@feddit.nl 6 points 1 year ago

And if you do mind the smell, you might actually be a mosquito

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I have known individuals who, while I cannot prove it, are probably not mosquitos but who also hate the smell of citronella.

[-] x4740N@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I mean it's not wrong considering boomers somewhere probably have a lifetime supply of banned chemicals

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