Hi everyone!
When you soak your hammock in permethrin, do you feel that you are protected from bellow only or it creates some kind of "force field" around you. In other words, do you need a bugnet if your hammock as been soak in permethrin ? Maybe use some permethrin on the top quilt too ?
I sprayed Permethrin on the hammock, not soaked the hammock in it. Also, I like to keep my bug net on the hammock as it helps keep my stuff from falling out. The bugs that touch the treated areas will die. Not sure about how it works like an anti-bug "force field"!
Yes. You will still need a bugnet.
Many insects treat permethrin like candy so yes I always take the bug net.Originally Posted by JoshandBaron
It's more of a "kills on contact" than a deterrent. They can land and maybe even bite first. It won't keep them off so much as it will kill them after they land.
Ok thx guys! I dont like to be enclosed in a bugnet... I guess I will have get used at it
Take a fool's advice.Every morning and every night I take a B complex vitamin with electrolytes and an apple cider vinegar Capsule.
Last summer in Georgia in all the heat and humidity down in the piney woods near a pond I camped and the mosquitoes had zero interest in me.Your mileage may vary.Another thing I have noticed is that my cholesterol has lowered itself without me doing anything else.I don't know if it's the supplements or not.....................
Last spring I did a test with some Rail Riders pants with InsectShield, which is supposed to repel/kill ticks.
While doing one my 3-4 weekly short hikes in a local park I found a deer tick on my dog's front leg, which I removed and put on the thigh area of the pants. I sat down on a rock to see how the tick would react. He crawled around for a while as I kept him corralled in the same little area. I kept expecting him to curl up, or to show some sort of distress, but it never happened. After about 15 minutes I flicked him off, got up and continued on... with substantially less faith that this stuff does anything at all.
The instructions say the InsectShield treatment is good for 70 washings, and these had been washed only once.
Photo of the tick on InsectShield pants
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The vitamin tab and vinegar capsule sounds interesting. I think I’ll try that.
I chewed a daily clove of garlic for additional insect protection. Mixed with food to prevent belly burn. It may have helped, seemed to.
Permethrin is not intended to kill insects (as applied to clothing and gear). Rather, it is a neurotoxin that essentially scrambles their brains rendering them incapable of biting (most of the time). It does have some repellant properties as well, although its primary function is as a neurotoxin. Had you placed that tick on your skin, it almost assuredly would not have bitten you.
When I got my first pair of Insect Shield treated ExOfficio pants, my BF and I took our dogs on a hike around a lake through dry, waist-high grass. He and the dogs were covered in ticks*; I had none. Now, I always use Permethrin-treated stuff when I expect biting insects to be present.
* I don't live in an area with Lyme disease or other tick-borne diseases
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