So all those gadgets and candles you use for getting rid of mosquitoes? Mostly worthless, it seems.
A large number of different spray-on repellents and wearable repellent devices are commercially available. The efficacies of many repellents are unknown. This study focuses on the efficacy of eleven different repellents in reducing the number of Ae. aegypti female mosquitoes attracted to human bait. We performed attraction-inhibition assays using a taxis cage in a wind tunnel setting. One person was placed upwind of the taxis cage and the mosquito movement towards or away from the person was recorded. The person was treated with various spray-on repellents or equipped with different mosquito repellent devices.
The most effective repellent was a DEET-based product. And least effective were devices which use high-frequency sound to keep mosquitoes away. Link found via ScienceMag.