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I have given my top quilts and underquilts a light spritzing, just on the outer shell, with Permethrin. It might be a moot point, as I don't think mosquitoes could actually get thru those quilts to me. Just gives an extra bit of insurance. Most of the time, in Colorado, at higher elevations, we don't have many bugs. However, you do run across pockets, so I like a little extra buffer. If I am headed into a known bug area, I bring my hug net. But again, in Colorado, some treated clothing and a treated hammock are often sufficient to stay comfortable.
I treat my clothing and bugnet. Permethrin is heck of a lot safer than DEET.
I also fear tick-borne diseases a thousand times more than permethrin.
I mix my own .5% permethrin solution and soak all of my hiking gear that is made of water permeable fabric (including my hammock and bug net but NOT my down quilt - I just spray that until slightly damp with the same solution from a spray bottle.) It helps with mosquitoes but I mainly am worried about ticks.
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Not quilts, Hammock, UQP, bugnet, shoes, socks, pants, shirts, hats, pack, but not quilts. I'm not out to kill bugs so much as to keep them from making me lunch.
I read on this Forum that Rid is permethrin. Is that made the same as the chrysanthemum basis? I sprayed my hammock with Rid and let it soak for a day before using it but I was glad I had the bugnet, too. There aren't any ticks in the high Sierra but the mozzies move up the mountain in the early summer. You can get in a dense cloud of them that actually casts a shadow. Seen it. They've run me out in late June.
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