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Thermacell’s LIV Mosquito-Repellent System Is Effective but Expensive

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Thermacell’s LIV is not a mosquito-killing system, but rather a repeller technology.

It works based on a chemical called metofluthrin , which gives off a vapor that mosquitos apparently hate when heated.

With a ring of Repellers around your safe zone, you create an invisible anti-mosquito force field.

The LIV+ app located each Smart Hub quickly and bridged them to my Wi-Fi network.

There's not much to the app, though you can customize the LEDs that ring the Repellers to some extent and set up various schedules and timers.

LIV is also not cheap: A kit of one hub and three Repellers is $ 799 .