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Another bug question for those staying out overnight w/o tents... I've seen a suggestion for what was essentially a tent for your head made out of bug netting. Was thinking a light silk might work for something like this. Anyone ever tried or seen something similar that would be HC or at least plausibly HC?
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Nothing beats clothes sprayed with permethrin and then dried. Stuff repels ticks like nobody's business. Haven't had skeeter problems but don't know if the stuff works on them for sure. Exposed skin gets DEET. A hat/net combo works great in the turkey woods. That's about as much as I know about it.
For the scent users, garlic will defeat skeeters? That's because NOTHING/NOBODY will get near you. Also remember that it's no use worrying about the various scents you may want to put on scaring deer. If they can smell the scents, they can smell YOU. Hunt the wind.
For the scent users, garlic will defeat skeeters? That's because NOTHING/NOBODY will get near you. Also remember that it's no use worrying about the various scents you may want to put on scaring deer. If they can smell the scents, they can smell YOU. Hunt the wind.
Skeeters= Thermacell
Chiggers & Ticks= Permethrin
If they get by those two....Go inside, your in trouble!
Chiggers & Ticks= Permethrin
If they get by those two....Go inside, your in trouble!
G. H. Loskiel wrote in 1794, "The most troublesome plague ...especially in passing thro' the woods was a kind of insects called by the Indians Ponk or Living Ashes." We still call them "punkies," or "no-see-ums." Ah, sweet revenge: one kind of midge chases mosquitoes, jabs their abdomens, and sucks out the blood.
Bug nets were around in the 18th century. Whether or not a person had one was another matter.
Malaria was a huge problem, something we don't think about today, there were huge epidemics of malaria in the late 1800's and it persisted until after WW2.
Thanks for the insight!
Very true about Malaria. Was reading the history of my area -- St Joseph County in SW Michigan -- and was quite surprised to discover that this area was known for its "malarial swamps". Considering that mosquitoes certainly haven't been eliminated, I've always wondered exactly how malaria was eradicated here. I know DDT was used for mosquitoes, but I don't know how you'd eliminate the disease without eliminating the vector.
Did a little research based on the link you provided -- and I understand now that there are no animal reservoirs of the types of malaria that infect humans. So if you can prevent humans from infecting other humans via mosquitoes, problem solved. That's apparently what they did to eradicate it. I'd always assumed that mosquitoes were just a vector between animals and humans, just as ticks are a transmission vector between mice and humans for Lyme disease.
Good government eh? Most Americans seem convinced nowadays that there's no such thing -- probably making corrupt government a self fulfilling prophecy. 8^)
The Thermo-Cell device works. No exactly a traditional item but for me its that or put up with the bugs. At $20-25 its a bargain.
I use Thermacell too, but I wonder how safe it is around black powder since it does have a flame inside.
It’s safe, as long as you don’t mix the two.
Think of it kinda’ like electricity and water!
I’ve used the device around camp and in a boat never carried a lite one on me.
They do make a holster for one however, or at least they did.
I had one a few years back.
The Pemethrin works great if your going to be a foot.
Think of it kinda’ like electricity and water!
I’ve used the device around camp and in a boat never carried a lite one on me.
They do make a holster for one however, or at least they did.
I had one a few years back.
The Pemethrin works great if your going to be a foot.
Is it Vitamin B 12 or Folic Acid? I forgot which one. One of them Vitamins. I take a muliple and the wife dont. And the mosquitos seem to prefer Carol over me. Maybe I'm not as tender, She not as sweet.
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After spending almost 5 decades in the Alaska bush with people who live there all the time, I gotta say that they're just a lot tougher than we city folks. I don't recall anyone using insect repellent or complaining about the bites. They just tough it out and accept it as a part of living there. Interesting enough, I don't see them being attacked like visitors, though. In fact the locals get a pretty good laugh about all our complaining and swatting and chemical warfare.
No claim of immunity, but the bugs just don't seem as interested in them. Maybe there is some kind of buildup we don't know about. We see the same thing with no-see-ums in Florida each winter, with bites being really bad at first but tapering off to almost nothing after a couple of months. Meanwhile anyone who comes to visit us is eaten alive without repellent.
No claim of immunity, but the bugs just don't seem as interested in them. Maybe there is some kind of buildup we don't know about. We see the same thing with no-see-ums in Florida each winter, with bites being really bad at first but tapering off to almost nothing after a couple of months. Meanwhile anyone who comes to visit us is eaten alive without repellent.
Chiggers and ticks...sulphur. My mom used to tie little cloth baggies around my upper calf full of sulphur so as you walk through the woods or fields, it would sprinkle ever so lightly down...no chiggers or ticks!
Wouldn't it be nice if mosquitos sucked fat instead of blood?
Imagine how big those mosquitoes would get.
Around here, the linemen that work for the electric coop wear flea/tick collars around their boots just above the ankle. Works like a charm.
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I use Permethrin on my clothes. You can buy the spray at "China-Mart" and follow the instructions. I used that on my clothes (shirts, pants, socks) when I was in Kenya there were no issues with bugs of any kind. It kills the bugs on contact. It will last on the clothes for 5-6 washings before becoming ineffective.
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Down on the Gulf Coast of Texas, mosquitos used to be so thick they would smother cattle. Mom grew up at Sabine Pass, close to where Lt. Dick Dowling and his 42 Confederates stopped the Union gunboats from invading Texas. I can't imagine having to be on the shore of the Pass back then and fighting bugs and Yanks at the same time. Yesterday was Mary Ferroll Briggs nee Butt's birthday, she would have been 105, being born in 1914. She said folks got drinking water from cisterns, since the ground water was so salty. Folks tied a sock over the spigot in the kitchen sink to filter out the mosquito 'wigglers'.
