If you are in your backyard, garden, or other outdoor location, you can enhance your experience with paper lanterns. Unfortunately, however, if the outdoor location you are has high humidity, it may be filled with irritating bugs, especially mosquitoes. Bug spray only works so well, for it burns and stinks.

You can use paper lanterns to repel mosquitoes. All you have to do is buy a mosquito repellent candle and place it in your flame-lit paper lantern. You can buy these candles in many different stores, and they come in a variety of shapes and sizes; they have different ranges of effectiveness, usually anywhere from five to fifteen feet.

When you use paper lanterns with mosquito repelling candles to protect yourself against bugs, you must arrange them in the proper fashion. To do this, figure out the range of the candles. If you are unsure, you can check on the label or box of the candle. If you cannot find it there, contact the store you bought it at or the manufacturer of the candle. After figuring out the effective range, arrange the candles so that there are no gaps between ranges. To ensure this, make a one foot overlap of the last foot of the ranges. These last feet are the weakest, so you will need to double the protection.

When you set up the lanterns, arrange it in a border around the area you are going to be. It is fairly simple to figure out, but there are some special situations when dealing with water. If there is chlorinated water where you are, you can take advantage of the natural mosquito repelling properties of chlorine. Therefore, you can double the distance between the candles, so you use half the number of candles.

However, when you are trying to protect an area that has water that is not chlorinated, then you need to double the number of candles; cut the distance between the candles by half. The reason for this is that mosquitoes are attracted to water. In fact, they are super-attracted to water, for it is where they are born. Water is the breeding ground of mosquitoes. Because they are so attracted, you will need to double your protection with double the number of candles.

Paper lanterns are a great way to light an area. They are perfect for an outdoor, family dinner, as they give off a peaceful, dim light, while at the same time working hard to protect you and your family from mosquitoes.

Cody Scholberg, a recognized expert on lighting fixtures, writes for Paper Lanterns Guide about the uses of paper lanterns. Learn how to use cheap paper lanterns safely!