Natural repellents. Which is worse cats or mosquitos?

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ok .i have heard that before also ..(catnip).But taking garlic tablets daily and taking vitamin (B) i live here in the remote /wilderness of alaska ...so trust me .i havent used (Bens) 100 percent deet in a few years...also catnip..you just might get your butt chewed on by a grizzly .it is a probable fact.that bears prefer vegatarians over meat eaters ...lol.lol..who thinks up this crap anyway ..also the Best survival school..is living it on a daily basis .its not something you just read in a book .mother nature is a dirty (s.o.b) looking to take the lifes of green horns & careless sourdoughs every day ..cheers ..
 
Hey Guys..

I just caught a little news clip about something fairly new..

Vitamin D on a Transdermal patch is suppose to be Extremely effective..
Don't know anything more...

ttyle

Eric
O/ST
 
wolftrapper said:
ok .i have heard that before also ..(catnip).But taking garlic tablets daily and taking vitamin (B) i live here in the remote /wilderness of alaska ...so trust me .i havent used (Bens) 100 percent deet in a few years...also catnip..you just might get your butt chewed on by a grizzly .it is a probable fact.that bears prefer vegatarians over meat eaters ...lol.lol..who thinks up this crap anyway ..also the Best survival school..is living it on a daily basis .its not something you just read in a book .mother nature is a dirty (s.o.b) looking to take the lifes of green horns & careless sourdoughs every day ..cheers ..
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Yeah 10-4 all over that with hot sauce, my brother. Seriously. Do you have any indication of whether the garlic is helping with the swarming nasties? Do you notice that garlic works by itself? I've heard the vitamin B complex works by itself to some degree (as does not bathing, he he). I think that is the active repellent in Avon's Skin-So-Soft, so I'm thinking maybe that works. I've never tried it, but female relatives of mine swear by it. I'd rather get malaria than wear the stuff, BTW, so I have no personal experience with S-S-S or it's derivatives. I've been living in Socal for so long, that I've almost forgotten what a skeeter looks like - almost. Of course the woods around here are getting pretty thick with mountain lions, so I'd definitely stay away from the catnip oil as long as I am here. :D
 
Normark said:
Hey Guys..

I just caught a little news clip about something fairly new..

Vitamin D on a Transdermal patch is suppose to be Extremely effective..
Don't know anything more...

ttyle

Eric
O/ST
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Sounds like a good way to go. Light weight. Put it on and you're good to go for some specific amount of time. No need to reapply every four hours. Have you got a link to the clip, or was it a TV-only kind of thing?:thumbup:

Harry
 
For when the bugs are not too bad , Dr Bronners pepermint soap helps.

Phil
 
Be advised, though, that vitamin D is one of the ones that can be toxic if you get too much in you.

I find the whole "field expedient insect repellents" area to be one of the most critical for outdoorsmen / wilderness-survival-interested people. West Nile virus and St. Louis encephalitis have both made their presence known where I live, and one result is that I've been vastly less inclined to let my kids sleep outdoors without a mosquito screen of some kind. It's one thing to build a lean-to that'll keep out most of the rain; but building something that will keep the mosquitoes out is a more difficult proposition. It may be coming to the point where we're going to need mosquito netting--and I mean a LOT of it--as a standard feature in survival kits. I would not be AT ALL surprised to see a resurgence of malaria and yellow fever in the U.S. (we used to have epidemics of these diseases), now that anti-malarial drugs are beginning to lose their effectiveness, the country is forgetting that people used to drain swamps and take steps to keep the ground dry for a reason (I see lots of public-construction projects that are engineered so as to keep large amounts of standing water--obviously lessons of past epidemics are being forgotten); and increased travel between tropical countries with malaria problems and first-world countries is likely to mean that there may be more malaria-bearing mosquitoes flying around than we're used to.
 
Return of the J.D. said:
Be advised, though, that vitamin D is one of the ones that can be toxic if you get too much in you.

I find the whole "field expedient insect repellents" area to be one of the most critical for outdoorsmen / wilderness-survival-interested people. West Nile virus and St. Louis encephalitis have both made their presence known where I live, and one result is that I've been vastly less inclined to let my kids sleep outdoors without a mosquito screen of some kind. It's one thing to build a lean-to that'll keep out most of the rain; but building something that will keep the mosquitoes out is a more difficult proposition. It may be coming to the point where we're going to need mosquito netting--and I mean a LOT of it--as a standard feature in survival kits. I would not be AT ALL surprised to see a resurgence of malaria and yellow fever in the U.S. (we used to have epidemics of these diseases), now that anti-malarial drugs are beginning to lose their effectiveness, the country is forgetting that people used to drain swamps and take steps to keep the ground dry for a reason (I see lots of public-construction projects that are engineered so as to keep large amounts of standing water--obviously lessons of past epidemics are being forgotten); and increased travel between tropical countries with malaria problems and first-world countries is likely to mean that there may be more malaria-bearing mosquitoes flying around than we're used to.
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Yup. Many solid points to consider. I think air conditioning, DDT, and flight to the cities also hit the skeeters pretty hard too. But they are making a come back.

The white tail population, in some parts of the US, is so out of control that you have to seriously consider whether going into the woods is worth getting lime disease from deer ticks.

It wasn't that long ago that most people didn't bother with water purification gear if they got far enough up into the mountains. Nowadays it is standard survival gear in one form or another.
 
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