
'Cruel Melody' is an album that Limp Bizkit fans and fans of the new tendencies of heavy metal will love but it's also another original work featuring all the elements of Wes Borland musical genius.

Borland took bassist Danny Lohner (Nine Inch Nails) and drummer Josh Freese (A Perfect Circle) and sound designer Josh Eustis (Telefon Tel Aviv) to super-producer Ross Robinson's (the man who invented the nu-metal sound producing artists like Machine Head, Fear Factory, Sepultura, Korn, Deftones, the Cure and many others) upstart I AM: WOLFPACK label and delivered Black Light Burns' harrowing debut, Cruel Melody, 180 degrees from what you think you know about the eccentric guitarist. Now, for his next trick, he's putting on the guise of front man, leading both a studio and live super group to even darker depths as Black Light Burns. At least 10 studies in the past 15 years have denounced ultrasonic devices as having “no repellency value whatsoever,” Conlon told Doug in the guide to the best mosquito control gear.The nu-metal super group sensation from the US founded by Limp Bizkit mastermind Wes Borland, the chameleonic lead guitarist who has sold over 30 million records worldwide. Mosquitoes will likely avoid the bracelet, but they will also likely land and bite you elsewhere. Though it’s true that some of these bracelets are made with active ingredients that could be off-putting to mosquitoes, those repellents aren’t concentrated enough to have a wide-reaching effect. In Wirecutter’s mosquito control gear guide, Joe Conlon, then technical advisor for the American Mosquito Control Association, told Doug that both propane- and UV-based traps will capture mosquitos, but these traps are just not as attractive to the pests as humans are. Our experts found that mosquito traps don’t live up to their marketing claims.

The only problem: They aren’t killing the bugs that bother you.” A study from the University of Delaware tracked six residential bug zappers over a 10-week period and found that of the 13,789 insects killed, only 31 were biting flies (including mosquitoes). In a post on bug zappers, Doug writes, “Because of the irresistible lure of their light, bug zappers are incredibly effective at killing bugs. Mosquitoes aren’t necessarily drawn to light sources the way other bugs are, so zappers mostly take down the type of bugs that sustain your local ecosystem. Although bug zappers are effective at killing bugs, they unfortunately target the wrong kind. Though Citronella is the most ubiquitous of these so-called mosquito repellents, it isn’t the only one that doesn’t work. As Doug writes in a post about essential oils as bug repellents, “Repellents such as picaridin and DEET, on the other hand, block a much wider number of receptors on a more consistent basis.” Essential oils block only a limited number of those receptors, and Zwiebel told senior staff writer Doug Mahoney that he wasn’t certain an essential oil that worked for one species would work across a range of others.

This is because essential oils don’t offer as substantial an invisible shield as EPA-approved repellents like DEET and picaridin do.Ī mosquito interprets the world through multiple chemical receptors, according to Laurence Zwiebel, the chair of biological science at Vanderbilt University. Citronella oil is used in many different forms-from tabletop candles to oil diffusers to 5-foot tiki torches-to attempt to keep the pests at bay.īut the truth is there’s no indication that citronella candles provide more protection than any other candle-produced smoke. Citronella, an essential oil distilled from a type of lemongrass, has long been regarded as a “natural” mosquito repellent.
