Mosibands

Julii2020

Can I get these in New Delhi?

martinez

Hi Julii2020,what are Mosibands?

Nick-H

You have to catch enough mosquitoes, and tie them, head to tail, making a bangle that you wear on your wrist. This warns off the live ones from coming near you.

Alternatively... they are like cloth bands that you wear around your wrists, which are permeated with repellent (probably DEET, I don't remember) encapsulated in such a way that it is released slowly over time, so they last.

I had some, a few years ago... one of the many things I've tried to keep the mossies off me over the years, I don't think they were spectacular, but probably they weren't as spectacular a failure as the ultrasonic insect repellent.

I haven't seen them in Chennai, but then, Delhi has more modern, and more imported stuff. If they work for you, julii2020, bring them with you.

Hal

It was a phase in the 80's. Musicians with big hair, tight pants and an annoying whine.

capt_mahajan

Nah. That was Mosibisa.

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Nick-H

Mosibisa?

We are going...
Heaven knows where we are going..

A great choice of song for a navigator


Gosh... I saw Osibisa, long, long ago, and they walked on stage singing this song, which I'd always loved. It was powerful. Tears streamed down my face. I forgot all about my brief regret at having then recently given up a particular intoxicant, and thought of nothing but their music for the entire concert

Haylo

Nick, I only think this works if you catch male mosquitoes.

So for the DEET protection to extend to your ankles, the OP would have to be even shorter than me.

Crikey!

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Nick-H

Well, apparently, they created a haze around you... or, maybe one wore them around the ankles as well. Look, this was 1999...



Anyway, I thought they were a good idea at the time.

jituyadav

My friend on his first day in Delhi covered himself from top to bottom by mosquito repellent cream. He was oily and smelly (due to cream), and scratchy (due to mosquito bites) the whole night. So I wonder if this kind of product works. Maybe the mosquitoes had developed a taste for cream as the delhi ones are as difficult to handle as delhites.

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Haylo

Repellents containing DEET definitely do work. Odomos, an Indian cream, is reported as working by many experienced people on here.

However, the strength of DEET based products does determine how long they are effective for - a 10% DEET product won't protect you all night long.

Forget about garlic being a mossie repellent, if it worked, nobody in India would have malaria!

Nick-H

I don't think even DEET works 100% for everyone.

If you have one of those smells mosies are just going to find, they find you. They will also bite if they find you by chance.

jituyadav, you avatar, at first glance, makes me laugh --- but I soon realise that this is a picture of great cruelty; overloading carts drawn by animals isn't funny.

Haylo

I'm prepared to concede that there may be people it doesn't work for, because I don't know, but I'm prepared to put money on there being more people it doesn't work for because they apply it incorrectly. Basically, because it is horrible stuff and applying it correctly to everywhere including face and hands is frankly disgusting!

Absolutely agree. However, if you can find an image for your avatar of an auto driver in that position, I'd laugh my socks off.

jituyadav

Right Nick and Haylo, it was a lack of sensitivity on my part ....removed.

Haylo

But you've gone back to your old avatar, I'm disappointed, where's that auto driver?

Nick-H

jituyadav, nice to see that animal back

Is it a sloth? That is my favourite animal