Mossies

In Australia they love them so much they call them mossies. They love them because they're better than the flies. We've gone the route for mosquitos apparently. We've had them everywhere we've gone except Paihia on the north island. We've tried DEET, which sort of works, if you really put it everywhere. But you don't want to, that stuff is really bad for you. Citronella based repellents have a negative effect - mossies actually LIKE the stuff. We were informed by the nurse that gave us our vacinations in Corvallis (at the Benton Cty health center) that there's a grapefruit oil based product available outside the US that works really well. There are similar products in the US, but they don't have a sufficient concentration of the oil to be effective. We're still looking for this product, now across 3 countries.