Lentek MM30C Bite Shield | 
| Brand: Lentek
List Price: $24.99
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 3061
Color: White
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 7
Dimensions (in): 2.5 x 4.9 x 5.9
MPN: MM30C
Model: MM30C
UPC: 785169503004
EAN: 0785169503004
ASIN: B000067DKA
Availability: Usually ships in 2-3 business days
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| Features:
| • | Portable, lightweight biting insect repellent produces a scent that biting insects hate | | • | Effective to repel mosquitos, no see-ums, biting flies, and more | | • | Each cartridge offers 120 hours of use - 15-foot radius of coverage outdoors | | • | 2 cartridges included - clip on belt or place on any flat surface | | • | Perfect for indoors or outdoors - can use with ac adapter |
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Product Description
This portable, light weight biting insect repellent produces a scent that biting insects hate, but is pleasant to humans. The repellent cartridge contains beads made with Geraniol, a naturally occurring plant oil. Effective to repel mosquitoes, biting no-see-ums, and some biting flies! Just slide one of the replaceable repellent cartridges onto the Bite Shield? and turn on the battery-operated unit. The super quiet fan distributes the scented repellent to give you an umbrella of protection from biting insects.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 5 more reviews...
Seems to work, but there's a typo somewhere! April 21, 2005
Mona Lisa (NH USA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Ok, I just got one of these things, and I have to admit that last evening I stood by our seasonal stream watching the mosquitoes laying eggs on the water, and the mosquitoes weren't noticing me a bit. I do have a big Lentek mosquito trap which has been helping quite a bit with the populations, but really, they should have been driving me nuts.
Now, I haven't yet used up a cartridge, so I don't know which one is inaccurate, but the online advertising, copied here and a zillion other places, says each cartridge lasts "at least 120 hours". However, the product package says they last "up to 12 hours". Big difference! I've emailed the company and will be quite interested to learn which is the actual specification.
 The Bite Shield June 19, 2005
Fern Marie Johnson (EAST TAUNTON, MA)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
We received one of these with our new Skeeter Beater.
I didn't know why there were no gnats, or mosquitos, buzzing around my head, and in my face, as there always are... yet, no bugs were in the tray of this large Skeeter machine. I thought that it was repelling, instead of killing the gnats and mosquitos.
Well, after a couple of days, my husband remembered that we received this little gizmo, and he had forgotten that he turned it on and left it running in the screen house.
This little thing was apparantly repelling the bugs away from the large skeeter unit! It was sitting approximately 15' away.
Those gnats flying in your face and eyes, constantly, can drive you mad, and they were there all day, every day...what a nightmare! Now, even in the evening, no mosquitos! What the heck is in this thing? It works without dangerous chemicals????
This is absolutely the best repeller I have ever used, and I have tried them all. We live in a large wooded area, surrounded by ponds, lakes, and swamps. We are amazed at this item, and will be buying more. Psyche!!! NO BUGS!!!
This item is GREAT! March 4, 2005
C. Lai (Calif.)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
My 7 yr. old son is allergic to mosquito bites, plus I'm concerned about West Nile virus. Unfortunately, mosquitoes love him, and he always get some really nasty bites when he is sleeping. I bought this little unit, and now have peace of mind! I turn this on in his room for about half an hour at bedtime, leaving his door open, then turn it off and close his door. Any mosquitoes lurking in his room have been driven out by the geranium scent. I do the same in my own bedroom, and I am very pleased with the results.
The geranium scent is rather strong, but not unpleasant. I don't find it necessary to leave this on all night, so it's not a problem. I also like that you can clip this on your belt and turn it on for when you are outside. It's just a tiny little fan blowing through the geranium scented cartridge, so it is small and light-weight.
I can't believe it works! May 27, 2006
Kerry A. Bassett (Raleigh, NC, USA)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I am amazed. My mom sent this to me after I'd complained about already being eaten alive by mosquitos this year. I don't just get bites; I get huge, oddly shaped, so-itchy-they're-almost-painful, welts. And I am that person who attracts every single biting insect. I have often wished that I sweated DEET. However, I don't.
I tried this dubiously, first in the morning--I'd been getting bites every day between 8 and 10am (even with high % deet). --No bites.-- I still didn't believe it. I used it again that evening--after a rainstorm had come through--from about 6pm to 10pm. No bites! It comes with a belt clip, but I left it outside at one point when I came inside. The second I left its side, a mosquito landed on me.
I have, since then, used it several more times, no insect spray at all, and it's been very muggy around here. Absolutely no bites. I have seen a couple more bees than usual, and it turns out that the ingredient this blows out (geraniol) is said to attract bees. Not a big deal to me.
It apparently doesn't work for everyone. I have always assumed that there is some sort of chemical I give off that makes mosquitos head straight for me, bypassing everyone else. (I might be at a party where no one else even sees a mosquito and I leave with over a dozen bites.) I wonder if the geraniol somehow combines with whatever it is that I put out and neutralizes it. This could explain why it would work for some people and not other people.
At this price, it's worth it to find out if you are one of the people for whom it might work! I figure if I replace the cartridge every 2 weeks (~$3.50/cartridge), I will even be saving money because I'd been going through 1-2 cans of high-deet bug spray per week.
 Reviewed by a retired Engineer August 6, 2005
Leo Cuichin (Houston, TX)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I received this Lentek Model MM30, called Bite Shield yesterday afternoon and at around 4:30 PM I tested this thing in my back yard which a hiding place for some Asian Tiger mosquitos in Houston, Texas. These pesky mosquitos are known to bite during daytime. Within 5 minutes while testing in a light breeze of around 4 to 5 MPH one adult came by with three other smaller ones, despite of this Lentek running by my side. I swatted the adult and two smaller ones by my palm when they started feeding on my left arm, but the other juvenile got away. This morning, at 8:15 AM I tested it again in calm air and was surprised that one or two mosquitos will not land on my test arm. I tested again this afternoon before sunset with calm air, and got bitten while this Lentek was running on my belt. I came back inside my home scratching my left elbow. I would just give this Lentek MM30 a 3-star rating at this place where these Asian Tiger mosquitos are plentiful.
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