Tips Againts Insects

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My balcony is pretty nice: LARGE, third floor, immediately in front is a marina open on St-Lawrence River.

The problem is that since it’s next to water, there’s a shit-ton of insects of all kind, various flies, wasps and night butterflies. During the evening there’s enough to gobble some if you keep your mouth for more than half a second. Flies everywhere including eyes and ear is pretty annoying!

There’s plenty of insecticid at the store, spray, candles, buzz-lamps.
There’s too much to choose from!
What’s did you guys had success with?!

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A strange question to ask on a site like this, but I suppose we’ve had stranger.

I’ve never had this problem, so all I can do is wish you the best with getting rid of the bugs.

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Set up a huge net so the bags can’t get in. If it’s very finely woven, you’ll hardly notice it’s there.

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[quote]legendaryblaze wrote:
Set up a huge net so the bags can’t get in. If it’s very finely woven, you’ll hardly notice it’s there.[/quote]

This is really the only thing you can do.

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Spiders eat insects.

Have you tried spiders?

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[quote]Jeffrey of Troy wrote:
Spiders eat insects.

Have you tried spiders?[/quote]

Ooh, and then for the spiders you could get some lizards.

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[quote]forkknifespoon wrote:

[quote]Jeffrey of Troy wrote:
Spiders eat insects.

Have you tried spiders?[/quote]

Ooh, and then for the spiders you could get some lizards. [/quote]

Mongooses to get the lizards.

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[quote]on edge wrote:

[quote]forkknifespoon wrote:

[quote]Jeffrey of Troy wrote:
Spiders eat insects.

Have you tried spiders?[/quote]

Ooh, and then for the spiders you could get some lizards. [/quote]

Mongooses to get the lizards.[/quote]

Tigers to get the mongooses.

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Place citronella candles and or citronella oil-burning lamps around your balcony. Keep 'em burning while you’re out there.

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[quote]Cuso wrote:

[quote]on edge wrote:

[quote]forkknifespoon wrote:

[quote]Jeffrey of Troy wrote:
Spiders eat insects.

Have you tried spiders?[/quote]

Ooh, and then for the spiders you could get some lizards. [/quote]

Mongooses to get the lizards.[/quote]

Tigers to get the mongooses.[/quote]

Mongeese?

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If it’s warm enough, put a fan against a wall or corner and point it at yourself. That will keep a lot of them off of you. Mosquitos can only fly about 3mph, and it’ll blow a lot of the moths and other slow-flyers away as well.

For gnats, the best thing I’ve ever seen is a dryer sheet (believe it or not). Even a used one will work. Just rub it on any exposed skin. You can also put 1tsp of your favorite fabric softener in 1cup of water and spray it on a paper towel or cloth (that’s all dryer sheets are). That’s also the recipe for homemade wrinkle-release spray, BTW.

Best bet, though, is screen it in. If you can’t permanently screen it in, try mosquito netting curtains. You can get the netting here for pretty cheap: http://www.scs-mall.com/Mosquito-Netting-cut-to-order-sold-by-the-running-yard/productinfo/MNZ89/

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Squats and milk
Fish Oil
Foam Rolling

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[quote]yolo84 wrote:
Squats and milk
Fish Oil
Foam Rolling
[/quote]

lol

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[quote]SkyzykS wrote:

[quote]Cuso wrote:

[quote]on edge wrote:

[quote]forkknifespoon wrote:

[quote]Jeffrey of Troy wrote:
Spiders eat insects.

Have you tried spiders?[/quote]

Ooh, and then for the spiders you could get some lizards. [/quote]

Mongooses to get the lizards.[/quote]

Tigers to get the mongooses.[/quote]

Mongeese?

[/quote]

Nope, had to look it up myself. Was going to go with Mongoosi

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You tell them flies to “come get some” and when they show up have your crew ambush them with steel chairs

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[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
You tell them flies to “come get some” and when they show up have your crew ambush them with steel chairs [/quote]

LMFAO!!

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Screen is the only real answer, barring that use repellent. I never found citronella to do much.

As an aside for those that spend time in the woods where there are deerflies, I have been using these http://deerflypatches.com/ and they work awesome. I had 48 flies stuck to one after a five mile hike.

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Just wait till they land on your hand and kill em with an ice pick. They won’t bother you after that.

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[quote]Testy1 wrote:
Screen is the only real answer, barring that use repellent. I never found citronella to do much.

As an aside for those that spend time in the woods where there are deerflies, I have been using these http://deerflypatches.com/ and they work awesome. I had 48 flies stuck to one after a five mile hike.[/quote]
Carpet tape works just as well.

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Screens (just roll down ones – they don’t have to be perfect fit), a couple of those internal blue-light bug zappers, and a fan.

The screens keep out 80% the bug zapper kills the rest.

The fan keeps mosquitos from biting/flying — they have crappy aerodynamic ability and can’t fly in the slightest of breeze.