Natural Outdoor Insect & Pest Repellent - 1 Gallon

Great stuff.

We have been inundated with mosquitoes this year. Someone suggested this and am I glad they did.My yard isn't huge so a two gallon sprayer (not included) did my yard twice. Firstly, the bottle came shrink wrapped in plastic. I'm glad it did. It did leak a very, very small amount. It wouldn't have been good for the delivery driver because it has a very strong garlic odor. Ooh, his truck would have smelled. He would not have liked us very much.I doubled the amount of solution for my first spraying of the year. It states on the bottle that you can add a little oil to the water and solution but it doesn't say how much. So I just put some in. The oil does make it a bit more of a clean up job for your sprayer.I sprayed my yard and plants. I also sprayed a little into the weed fest that my neighbors call a yard. Let it settle for the day and sprayed the rest of the container that night because I didnt want the sprayer to retain the odor. It does leave a slight scent of garlic in your yard for a short period of time. But that could be that it was just in my nose. I recommend mixing it outside because my house smelled like garlic for the day.It's been 3 weeks and we have only seen 3 mosquitoes. We call that a win! We would be foolish to believe that some of the nasty little buggers wouldn't try to get through to us. We are a tasty morsel.We are very satisfied!

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.

The product came dirty, and packaged in a poor condition. The packaging showed ware as if damaged by water or the liquid itself. The smell of it was overwhelming and poignant in a negative sense. I was a fraid to touch the bottle, but held it with gloves and ran water over it to clean the dirt like layer visibly attached to it. Finally decided to give it a try, but it smells so bad, i decided not to spray that on my yard. I stored in my garage to read more about it…. Maybe i was using it wrong (after all, the labels were not legible from the start). It stank my garage in a bad rotten smell. I don’t know if the product is a good mosquito killer, but i know the experience killed my desire to use it. I hope others have better luck.

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!

It works for a few hours, then mosquitoes will start coming back, definitely it does not kill insects.