Natural Outdoor Insect & Pest Repellent Spray - 1 Gallon

I have the perfect test subject--my wife will get seven mosquito bites if there is even a single mosquito in the county. We live in eastern Oklahoma, Ozark Mountain area, in the middle of a forest with a stagnant pond 100' from the house. Before we sprayed this last spring my wife couldn't be outside for two minutes without lathering up with DEET. I poured this into a standard hose-end sprayer, at the recommended setting of 2oz per gallon, and basically walked around our house and acreage flinging the garlic-y water all over the place.From that day forward, ALL last summer, ZERO mosquitoes. Still had moths, stink bugs flying around the lights, etc... this doesn't kill any flying bugs as far as I can tell, but there will be ZERO mosquitoes flying around after you spray this. Zero. Never re-applied, didn't even use the whole gallon. (Whole area sprayed, perhaps 300' by 200'... sprayed all my lawn, kinda splashed the sides of the house, and then splashed all the shrub/tree transition area around my lawn.)Yup, the place smelled like garlic for a day or two, then faded away to nothing... but again, ALL summer (12+ weeks?), my wife never got bitten once. You just flat didn't see mosquitoes flying around!I am a BIG skeptic of 'home remedies', old wives' tales, advice from Almanacs and the like... but this isn't any of those--apparently mosquitoes just flat don't like even the vaguest lingering odor of garlic.I'm re-ordering for this spring--I still had maybe a 1/4 gallon left, and while it still smelled nice and garlic-y I don't want to tempt fate so I figure I'll buy a gallon each spring and spray away... you find so few remedies like this that actually -work-, I'm going to stick with this one forever. I wonder if just planting garlic around the edges of the place would work too?

I heard about Mosquito Barrier after asking friends on FB what to use to kill/repel ticks after pulling a fat brown dog tick off my shih tsu, Hannah. Read with interest most of the reviews here and found one in particular from near my part of the states, Central New York, which said it DID in fact repel the nasty Asian Tiger Mosquito if you double the potency. Since there is no risk or danger from upping the dosage, I didn't even measure, but just dumped about a full cup into my 1-gal. garden sprayer. Two gallons were sufficient to do every square inch of my yard, gardens, house, porches, etc... The garlic smell was still there in the morning but gone by the time I returned from work the next day. Best part of this, though....NO ticks, NO mosquitoes! In fact, we had been chased in one evening just a week before application. Just found my first mosquito now 3 wks later. But, to be fair, we have received very little rain from mid-May until just this week, 3rd week of June. Told my neighbors with a toddler and large dog and they bought some, too and applied it last week. I think if we take turns, we'll be able to get through the summer and still have enough leftover for next year.Btw, I was hiking around a very slow-moving pond near the Erie Canal yesterday and smelled intense garlic on the grassy portion of the walk. I never saw a mosquito the entire time I was there and believe that the municipality sprayed Mosquito Barrier along the pond's edge, too! coincidentally, ABC News just did a piece on the other deer tick-borne disease Babesiosis, deadly to those with immune deficiencies like myself and my elderly mother (both cancer survivors). They told how it has migrated from New England to the Lower Hudson Valley in my home state of NY. Please, folks....protect yourselves and your children and pets with a combo of Mosquito Barrier, DEET and careful checking! Unlike the tell-tale bullseye ring left by a deer tick carrying Lyme Disease, Babesiosis bears no marks and the same tick can infect you with both Lyme and this sometimes-fatal parasite which devours your red blood cells. As a nature photographer, I spend most free days in the field, often in grass right up to my waist. I'm considering spraying some Mosquito Barrier on myself along with DEET to further protect myself against these nasty and deadly bloodsuckers!

I sprayed my half acre yard with this four times this year, from May to October. Up until June our backyard was an oasis of no mosquitoes. Then the rain came and tiger mosquitoes multiplied. We had the wettest year in over 100 years where I live. With that, it washed this spray away continuously. July and August we had mosquitos but not as bad as usual. Overall, it’s a lot of work but does a pretty good job of killing/stopping mosquitoes, better than any other device/chemical I have used. And it’s not toxic! 1 gallon will last my yard 2-3 years. It smelled for less than 24 hours each spray, longer if it was humid. Below are some tips I learned.I believe this is probably more effective against native mosquitos than the Asian tiger mosquitos.-Use gloves, this stuff stinks, especially the concentrate.-I used a heavy 5 Oz per 2 gallons in my sprayer-Spray everything! Read the directions. Spray up in trees and inside shrubs. I sprayed fences, the deck, almost everything.-Spray under leaves! It’s less likely to wash away.-When spraying in thick shrubs, be careful not to disturb bees and such-Heavily spray known breeding grounds. You’ll know when you start spraying it.-Mix in a little oil, I used canola. The oil helps the spray stick.-It took me 1.5 hours and 4 gallons for a solid spray of my yard. Sometimes I just did a quick 2 gallon spray if guests were coming over the next day.