Thanks Klas and Eric!
I have used DEET repellents in the past and would like to avoid them in
the future. They definitely are aggressive towards plastic and your skin.
Repellents containing IR3535 like Avon SSS Bug Guard plus seem to be as
effective according to some reviews.
I have used Picaridin successfully in the Swedish Taiga. It also worked
in Florida in December (with only few mosquitoes).
PMD worked well in Germany. Neither of the two was problematic with plastic=
.
So I will give the Avon stuff a try along with the others.
And I will use a mosquito net for my rig if it gets too bad.
As beautiful as a mosquito concert might be, I would rather have
warblers and ibis or anhingas...
Cheers
Volker
Am 09.02.2014 17:09, schrieb Klas Strandberg:
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> Right! Some sprays are nasty to some plastic materials! For example,
> some of them that were available in Europe 10 years ago, made the
> Telinga dish milky.
>
> Klas.
>
> At 23:36 2014-02-08, you wrote:
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>> Volker, you might find this an interesting thread.
>> Avon's Skin So Soft was very popular with the pulpwood cutters in
>> Nova Scotia when I lived there about 15 years ago. (Mosquitoes and
>> brutal Black flies).
>> http://www.tripadvisor.ca/ShowTopic-g499445-i9177-k4281755-Avon_Skin_so_=
soft_as_bug_spray-Akumal_Yucatan_Peninsula.html
>>
>>
>> I have no idea whether this stuff (or the vapors) might be nasty to
>> mic diaphragms. It can't do them any good and all of these
>> preparations seem to migrate over everything in my experience. Eric's
>> idea may well be the best!
>> k
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Eric Fassbender
>> < <> > wrote:
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>
> Volker, if you want to avoid the mozzies in your recordings and on
> your skin, I have recently started to use a travel mosquito net
> draped over a pocket umbrella. Works like a dream and against
> flies too :)
>
> Good luck :)
>
> Eric
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