Rich Peet wrote:
> You will know when you find a group with a color preference.
> I want blue no where near me in my badlands and no where near my
> recorder. I also have no use for Cit as the bugs here just laugh at
> it.
My recorder is in a PortaBrace case model made for it. Those are a shade
of blue. Hardly ever a bug of any kind lands on that case. Certainly not
attracted to it.
> Deet has its problems and I am now replacing the adhesive that holds
> my gps together. but at least it works even though I have been in two
> urgent care sites for ticks in recent times.
I've used all kinds of repellents during my lifetime. I've not found
Deet to be any kind of wonder repellent, requires frequent
reapplication, probably more often than the citronella one I'm using
now. And deet does not repel our brand of mosquitos. Slows down them
finding you slightly.
I just simply decided I could do without a repellent that was dangerous
to my equipment. I've seen far too much ruined by it. I tried the
citronella in liquid applicator form and found it was of about the same
effectiveness. Unlike some reports I get all evening with one
application and that's 6-8 hours or more. Note I'm not talking about the
candles and such like, they don't work particularly well. You have to
apply the citronella to you or your clothes.
After comments by several I did not expect it would be effective in
Canada. I stocked up on some deet in the stronger formulations. I just
report that what I found over quite a chunk of Canada within a few
hundred miles of Ottawa was that the citronella was as effective. In
addition the hover distance was greater with citronella than with deet.
With deet I had to be careful not to breathe in the mosquitos. And I was
very careful to keep it off my equipment. As a matter of practice I
avoid getting citronella on my equipment as well.
I did use citronella on my trip out west a couple years back. I had some
deet along, but never used it.
In my mountaineering days in Oregon and Washington there were areas the
reapply frequency to keep from being bitten with deet repellents was
sometimes as short as 15 minutes.
Though Georgia is full of ticks I've had no problems, very rare to pick
up a tick. I don't know if the citronella helps or if I just live a
charmed life. I certainly am in the right environments to collect lots.
I know in the past I've had ticks climb on right over deet treated
clothing. I've never trusted a repellent to be reliable for ticks.
Walt
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