robertj
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What’s the best mozzie stuff can you get in France? Heading up the Vilaine and don’t want it spoilt by my wife getting eaten alive as she reacts so badly.
Mozzie spray
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Where I am in Western Australia the insects have died out. Thirty years ago we couldn't open the door at night without an enormous swarm of insects flying into the house and we couldn't drive our car without getting the windscreen splattered with the bodies of insects. Not any more.
Be very careful with what you use.
As Insect Populations Decline,
Scientists Are Trying to Understand Why
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SAMYL
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Rub on Listerine mouthwash. It works really well, and cheap too.
Old Harry
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Deet spray has been recommended by someone in Scotland i have [FONT="]Avon Skin So Soft Original Dry Oil Spray
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LittleSister
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Failing all that, buy some large cigars for your wife to smoke. 
Fr J Hackett
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You will have to take pot luck with what is available in the local pharmacies but if you are still in the UK buy a number of the after treatment sticks (After Bite) they give good relief when bitten, I have not seen them on sale in France. Likewise the Avon product is good as Citronella oil which I use occasionally when fishing in Scotland.
Neeves
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Mosquito coils smouldering on the bow.
Jonathan
Jonathan
rogerthebodger
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In summer we get very big mozzies and in some parts malaria carrying mozzies.
We use a automatic mozzie spray that keeps refreshing the spray every 15 to 30 minutes through the night.
https://www.mortein.co.za/products/mortein-naturgard-automatic-insect-control-system/
We use a automatic mozzie spray that keeps refreshing the spray every 15 to 30 minutes through the night.
https://www.mortein.co.za/products/mortein-naturgard-automatic-insect-control-system/
robertj
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Not sure as to where yet but get into the river and anchor somewhere.
Suggestions always accepted.
richardbrennan
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I am told you need to look for something that is at least 50% Deet to be effective. Jungle Formula Maximum fits the bill, but I am not sure you can get it in France.
KAL
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DEET works well, but some people don’t get on with it. The smidge is DEET free and we’ve found it to be extremely effective.
AndrewB
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Deet 50% is certainly effective but it is unpleasant stuff, sticky on the skin and unsuitable for prolonged use as it can affect eyes, breathing and skin irritation. It is recommended mainly for areas where there is a malaria risk.
Deet 20% - Jungle Formula Moderate, is in my experience pretty effective and preferable in non-malarial areas. Both are available from Boots.
Deet is banned in some countries, and a great many limit the concentration to below 30%.
Deet 20% - Jungle Formula Moderate, is in my experience pretty effective and preferable in non-malarial areas. Both are available from Boots.
Deet is banned in some countries, and a great many limit the concentration to below 30%.
robertj
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Thanks chaps another wealth of information available on here.
Hadenough
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For overnight so that you can keep hatches open get these.
https://www.amazon.com/ENKEEO-Campi...24?_encoding=UTF8&refRID=D50ZSNJ8JEC545R95QSZ
They sell them at UKIP at Arzal. We have two and the record catch to date per unit is 37 wee beasties in one night.
And BTW the Vilaine, despite other comments is mosquitoville through August especially if you are anchoring.
https://www.amazon.com/ENKEEO-Campi...24?_encoding=UTF8&refRID=D50ZSNJ8JEC545R95QSZ
They sell them at UKIP at Arzal. We have two and the record catch to date per unit is 37 wee beasties in one night.
And BTW the Vilaine, despite other comments is mosquitoville through August especially if you are anchoring.
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Bouba
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For bite and itch relief get Onctose but make sure it’s the hydrocortisone one (pink hi lights on the tube). Available in any French pharmacy.
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Halo
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If you use DEET be really careful to keep the spray and your sprayed bits away from plastic. I had it on my legs and a carrier bag melted onto it as I walked along. It took several weeks to come off !
johnalison
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For a malarial area, deet is probably the only thing that works for the average traveller, along with mosquito nets. For the usual European nuisance mozzies you can try what you like, but I don't think that many have been proved effective, and some shown to make things worse. We were eaten alive in Gouda a couple of years ago but are still here to tell the tale.
wallacebob
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Antihistamines; start week before you go, and continue for duration. Cheap ones in Aldi at present. Doesn’t stop bites, but reduces reactions. Plus a good spray, Deet is good, but not pleasant. Carrefour sell all you will need tho’.
BrianH
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Living aboard through every summer in a mosquito area where my marina is in the NE Italian lagoons, the only solution was to close up the companionway and fore-hatch with netting before dusk - not comfortable in temperatures in the upper 30s. It just wasn't practicable (or healthy) to continually use repellents on skin or aerosols to breath in.
That was for the normal European mosquito that emerged in the evening and was nocturnally active. Over the past few years we started to get the Asian Tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus), a far more aggressive insect that is faster and more difficult to swat and that operates during the day too.
It has spread beyond its Mediterranean introduction area, helped by climate change and European warmer winters, as far as Holland and here in Switzerland. It is now a serious public health emergency, being a vector for 20 diseases, according to the European Environmental Agency, including dengue, zika and yellow fever viruses. See its current known distribution here.
