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Re: Mozzies & Deet

Subject: Re: Mozzies & Deet
From: "Rich Peet" <>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 02:57:04 -0000
I admit I run 100% deet in the bug season.  I don't even consider the
equipment because without it I could not be there.  If there is a
doubt in any of you I will dig up the bug audio to prove it.

To help the recording I run a white windscreen during the worst.  I
have fielded strange questions from some of the best seasoned people
about my white windscreen.  I still use it but now only for 2 months
out of the year, that being "bug season".

Next week I go into the worst.  I either setup to work it, or set up
for remote and run.

See bug windscreen at: http://home.attbi.com/~richpeet/rich.jpg

Rich Peet
MN
N45.0 W93.3

PS never wear an orange headband.

--- In  David Sarkozi <>
wrote:
> Was at Anahuac NWR and the flies were so bad I resorted to tieing a
bandana
> around my face like a western bank robber. The I figured that flies
would
> still be buzzing me, but not even that. All I can figure the
bandana
> diffused enough of the CO2 in my breath that the flies couldn't
identify a
> point source of CO2 and never actually located me. I've tried
several times
> since with the same results, its keeps the flies away and to some
extent
> the mosquitoes.
>
> At 10:33 AM 4/28/2003 -0400,  wrote:
> > > 3. VISUAL orienting biting flies, like Ceratopogonidae,
Tabanidae and
> > > Simuliidae (midges, deer flies and green-heads, and the
Official New
> > > Hampshire State Bird, the "blackfly", now arrived, thanks) are
totally
> > > unaffected by Deet.
> > >
> >
> >SO WHAT CAN ONE USE TO PREVENT BITES BY THESE GUYS?



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