How to Avoid Mosquitoes and Ticks

Common sense is as good a guide as any. To keep away ticks, wear long pants and long-sleeved shirts, a hat or scarf. Pull your socks up over your pant cuffs and take a soapy shower after being in infested areas. To keep mosquitoes away, use window and door screens and put mosquito netting over infant carriages or strollers

Another rule of thumb is to know your insect. Mosquitoes like water at dusk. Ticks thrive in forests and untended grassy areas; they can also find their way into homes hitchhiking on cats and dogs.

Nutritionally, you can drink a tablespoon or two of organic apple cider vinegar and eat lots of garlic. Vitamin B1 taken daily is also supposed to help repel insects.