Bug repellent

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Fenner

Fenner

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I'm a misquote magnet. I always have been and always will be. I use super strong deet when I'm going to be out at night. Or in the woods or by the lake. I hate how sticky it is and I hate the way I smell. Anyone know of anything that isn't to sticky or stinky to help ward off the bugs? I've tried skin so soft by Avon, didn't work.
 
A couple of sheets of dryer fluff hung in your collar and along your beltline work wonders at keeping mosquitos away.
 
Fenner said:
Cool! Never knew that. The unscented kind?
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No, I think just the regular stuff, scented probably works better. I think it might be the scent that does it.... but it does seem to work.

We were given this tip when in Regina, Saskatchewan, where they have more mosquitos (not misquotes :D) than we do.
 
bugs hate cedar and oregano and T-tree oil - you can make up a spray
diluted with water, or put on a cloth...
 
Avon bug guard does work...NOT the skin so soft, but the kind that has Picardian (spelling) in it....comes in two versions, has sunblock 30 in it, is water proof.....white tube and blue tube....blue tube goes on blue and disappears as you spread and smells good...I use that on all exposed skin and deep woods off on back of shirt and Permanone on pants, boots......live in Mark Twain National Forest on Indian creek and run the gauntlet every day.......nothing bothers me when I go thru this preparation

Willy is right too....dryer sheets One pinned to hat......
 
dcontroversal said:
Avon bug guard does work...NOT the skin so soft, but the kind that has Picardian (spelling) in it....comes in two versions, has sunblock 30 in it, is water proof.....white tube and blue tube....blue tube goes on blue and disappears as you spread and smells good...I use that on all exposed skin and deep woods off on back of shirt and Permanone on pants, boots......live in Mark Twain National Forest on Indian creek and run the gauntlet every day.......nothing bothers me when I go thru this preparation

Willy is right too....dryer sheets One pinned to hat......
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I used to buy the blue Avon for the kid's, it worked pretty well on them. It didn't work so well for me.

I think I give off some odor that they like. Funny thing is I use unscented everything. It's not just mosquitoes either. Spiders, black flies, anything that bites. Last time I went camping. I covered myself with Cutter extreme, something like that, I got so bit up by black flies that I had welts all over my legs. I had to get an antibiotic. That was 22 years ago, haven't camped since. It brings me no joy.
 
Fenner said:
I used to buy the blue Avon for the kid's, it worked pretty well on them. It didn't work so well for me.

I think I give off some odor that they like. Funny thing is I use unscented everything. It's not just mosquitoes either. Spiders, black flies, anything that bites. Last time I went camping. I covered myself with Cutter extreme, something like that, I got so bit up by black flies that I had welts all over my legs. I had to get an antibiotic. That was 22 years ago, haven't camped since. It brings me no joy.
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Another option....Thermacell <---this may allow you to camp again....I use this early season bow hunting.....It contains small pads of a high caliber bug repellent that gets heated by a small butane cartridge....when it warms up it provides about a 5 foot diameter circle that bugs will not enter...nothing on the body, no smell and you can watch the gnats, mosquitos etc. fly all around about 5 foot away and if they get too close the fall out of the sky like a Jap Zero at the Great Marianas Turkey Shoot in WW2......

google Thermacell Sportsman Guide or Bass Pro........really does work.......good for a location where you will sit.....
 
Fenner said:
I used to buy the blue Avon for the kid's, it worked pretty well on them. It didn't work so well for me.

I think I give off some odor that they like. Funny thing is I use unscented everything. It's not just mosquitoes either. Spiders, black flies, anything that bites. Last time I went camping. I covered myself with Cutter extreme, something like that, I got so bit up by black flies that I had welts all over my legs. I had to get an antibiotic. That was 22 years ago, haven't camped since. It brings me no joy.
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Fen,

make sure that you use the oils of oregano and cedar also, just a few drops -
hubby and I can be sitting with friends out in the yard and they will be getting eaten-up
by whatever, and we both will mostly not be bothered, and this is with nothing on us -
we believe our diet has a lot to do with this...
also we barely feel stinging nettle or ant bites...last year I got stung
two different times, once by yellow-jackets and once by some kind of what appeared
to be hornets, the yj I handled ok, but the hornets were severely painful for hours -
the key is to keep your cool and RUN out of their territory...guess I got two different
kinds of inoculations...:rolleyes:
 
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