Not interested in installing a screen room but I wonder how useful the electric bug zappers or other contraptions might work. I never have a problem in the pool as I think they avoid the chlorine water.

Any advise from you folks from the Midwest, South, etc?

I've been in the high desert for 22+ years and even by the bodies of fresh water never been got by a skeeter.

Already aware that is one thing I am going to dislike about the move.

Growing up here we were more worried about a scorpion sting than skeeters. Scottsdale was then known as "the west's most western town" but now the joke is the west's most mid-western town.

A fan to move the air is good like a ceiling fan is good.

Citronella candles are so-so but cute.

Screened porch: best!

Spray on you (if you don’t mind the stink)

lemon eucalyptus sprays

DEET

DEET is always your best bet. But also, they make those Off lanterns and those work well too. I've tried some of the botanical repellents and have had some success with them, but they don't last as long.

Coleman makes a device that is supposed to be good too, but I do not have any experience with it. Coleman 2910A100 Mosquito Deleto 1.5D System.

Here in South Carolina we have a screened porch. There is even a layer of fiberglass screen under the decking floor od the porch.

In Tampa I used to smoke cigars in the evenings all the time on a non-screened in porch. Had a ceiling fan overhead and a bug zapper about 20’ away. Never had a mosquito issue. Watching the bug zapper was kinda like seeing lightning off in the distance.

Watching the demise of a mosquito is rather satisfying.

yup.

I have a little lantern Thermacell that edin508 recommended a few years back.

Covers a 15 foot radius and is odorless. Works well.

Have a friend or two who use the mosquito vacuum things, run on propane to emit CO2 and when the skeeters come near they get sucked into the bag...might be what Spey was talking about. One friend on the Cape had a beautiful pool overlooking an estuary and that machine kept his quarter acre skeeter free.

In recent years I have used a monthly service that sprays the property (no fruit/veggie/flowering plants though). Start in April and end in October, the idea is preventive rather than situational. Gotta get a generation ahead of them bastids.

I keep one of those battery powered tennis racket zappers nearby though when having an evening cigar...

Where there mosquitoes in the car?

The roof was off, so they blew faster than Celtic Bomber @ a Menudo concert.

On topic.

DEET is the best, the downside being (alleged) having subpar medical outcomes.

Citronella candles work reasonably well. If you don't mind the smell of waxy, cheap vanilla. Any breeze nullifies its impact.

Got a blue insect zapper light from Costco. Kills mosquitos. But just the dumb ones.

Couple of larger gauged cigars help.

There is another wildcard. There is a subversive banana talk going about.

One faction say bananas draw mosquitoes.

The other group swears eating two bananas before going outside ward them off.

Or, eat three, learn the real answer, and get a side order of All Regular.