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I'd just stick screens on one's windows and maybe use DEET if you're really at the height of mosquito season in a bad area.
Like, this has a DSLR camera, a GPU constantly churning away, a laser...
Oh you sweet summer child.
Getting DEET at a high enough concentration to be effective is difficult as hell, Zero, countem fuckin zero OTC bugsprays offer it higher than 15 percent, and 20-25 percent is where it actually starts to matter. Further, that's only a deterrent, and I have been in places where the swarm is so thick you kill bunches just by clapping.
We're not even getting into the midges, which are small enough to breeze through mosquito netting
I was actually thinking about it for population control because it could be running almost constantly. And energy wise, I'm not really concerned. I'm on solar+batteries, and anything I can do to prevent juice going to HECO is worth it to me.
If you want population control, just get some buckets and put some water and a mosquito dunk in them. The mosquitos will be attracted to the stagnant water but all the eggs will get eaten by bacteria.
TIL about mosquito dunks