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Modern Exterior Wall Lights

Modern Exterior Wall LightsWhat color lights deter pesky mosquitoes?

We recently bought our first house. It is a relatively new technology, the house clean modern lines. The predominant exterior wall colure is a very light gray, with shades of black around the eaves and the exterior windows, etc.

We have a large opening double entry door - which seems really nice. The double door is painted black.

Because we are located in the tropics, mosquitoes and other insects as random to hover at the door. You can enter / exit with lightning speed, but always ensuring a mozzie get behind us anyway.

A contact by a painter friend of ours pointed out that the front doors could be attractive to black Mozzi.

I googled "what colors deter insects, but found conflicting advice.

To add to this, the alcove above the front door (which has a lip "to him - and thus offers protection against the rains of the wet season when they were all farmed), two halogen downlights.

Both downlights are on the same electrical switch that all remaining exterior lighting feature, which does look nice.
Alas - the lighting of the room right outside the door before Mozzi attracts even more during the evening when in use.

The removal of these two bulbs and simply do not use these two downlights is not an option. We have a doorbell video camera for security reasons, and must be able to see the person standing at the door.

I want to delete the two halogen bulbs (white) and replace it with a lower wattage, the bulb of soft color. But what color to choose???

Please no one suggests Red (since this is a family house and not a brothel):-D

color options currently available in our local lighting retailers are "rainbow" - which tells me he has a pink / purple for the colors.
Yellow, blue or green.

Which of these colors best deter insects ?????????

Thank you very much (in advance) for all the answers. It is really appreciated. Cheers!

Well the first thing you must understand is that the mosquitoes, especially malaria carrying Anopheles are actually repelled by bright lights. They are so fragile as to avoid being eaten by insectivorous birds such as swallows hide in dark places during the day under leaves and places like that. They drink the sap of trees, but need extra protein from blood if they are to mate and reproduce, so the women bites you. So, lights at night tends to drive them. Butterflies are attracted to bright lights, however well made, they are not attracted by them, but the disorder rays of their navigation systems by evolution, because they are programmed to guide the light from stars or the moon if a light which is more fly in circles and that is why they can not get away from a source of light. If your only light occasions, they will be hidden around any dark form (your door) hoping for a bite and the light will expose them. They are scheduled to fly to dark forms. It is believed that zebra stripes on the break the outline and help avoid being bitten by biting flies. Your doors should appear black irrisistable midges and other biting insects are similar to that which is why they appear at dusk. Midges often form a cloud in a particular place. This is because they direct a major feature in the vicinity and there is a circle so that they form a cloud. One thing you can try. ultraviolet light is particularly attractive to insects, in fact there are several bug zapper on the market that employ an ultraviolet lamp and an electric heater to fry the insects attracted by light sources. Put one of these in another place of your front door and insects gather in the square there is (thankfully). I live in the tropics for part of the year. I have a powerful bulb ov.

Posted on June 19, 2010.
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