Are citronella candles or torches more effective?

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asked Jun 12, 2022 in Other-Home/Garden by pumpernickle (710 points)
Are citronella candles or torches more effective?

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answered Jun 12, 2022 by Wendell (43,730 points)
Citronella candles are more effective than torches at repelling mosquitoes.

Tiki Torches do work some to repel mosquitoes but the Citronella Candles do a much better job at keeping mosquitoes away.

Having Tiki Torches and Citronella Candles being used at the same time can be even more effective at repelling and keeping mosquitoes away.

Citronella candles are better and more effective at repelling mosquitoes than Tiki Torches are.

Products that contain oil of lemon eucalyptus, which comes from the gum eucalyptus tree, are a lot more effective than citronella at repelling mosquitoes.

Tiki Torches should be placed between 6 feet to 8 feet apart.

Do not place or locate Tiki torches under trees, overhangs or near other flammable materials.

Tiki Torches do help repel mosquitoes but not very good.

The Tiki Torches however will usually keep some mosquitoes away near the Tiki Torches from my own experience.

Candles or tiki torches contain citronella oil and are released as a smoke, which confuses mosquitoes and hinders their ability to smell the carbon dioxide and lactic acids that attract them to you.

A fire pit will keep mosquitoes away from you.

Having a fire in a fire pit can help repel mosquitoes as the mosquitoes hate the smoke and will also want to avoid the fire.

You can also use fans to help keep mosquitoes off of you as well as the mosquitoes won't be able to fly in the wind that the fans make.

We can and should kill off most mosquitoes that are around people because they do carry disease but we cannot and should not kill off the entire population of mosquitoes and make them go extinct.

It's impossible to kill off every mosquito because there are millions of mosquitoes on earth and more are being born each day.

Mosquitoes are a food source for fish so by killing off the mosquitoes you reduce the amount of food that the fish have to eat.

Even flies which are annoying cannot be killed off completely and they should not be anyway because they are beneficial to the earth.

Making flies go extinct completely would not be doable.

Although we can kill the flies that are flying around and bothering us there's no way to kill off all the flies in the world because there are billions of flies on earth.

Also flies multiply really faster and faster than you can kill all of them off.

The best thing that you can do is just kill off all the flies that are around you or kill off most of the flies that are around you.

However no matter how many flies you kill there will be more flies the next summer to bother you.

Flies are annoying but they are actually beneficial to the earth.

The purpose of flies is to pollinate plants, consume decomposing bodies, eat the sludge in your drainpipes, damage crops, spread disease, kill spiders, hunt dragonflies.

There are around 17 million flies per each person so it would be impossible to kill off the entire population of flies as there's more flies around than there are humans.

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