Has anybody tried the Off clip-on insect repellant?

[EddieB]

n/t

 

[Thunter]

works ok but just ok not great

 

[bcoop]

You may already know this.

The best I have found is any spray formula with Deet. Apply to your clothing the day before and let dry in the garage or outside. Wear them the next day and it will repel mosquitos, ticks and chiggers. Spray some on the sides of your shoes when you start and the ticks, and chiggers will not get to you, they will die before they get past your shoes. The good formulas are not recomended to be sprayed on your skin.

bcoop

 

[I a thr]

I still need to try, but read that Listerine mouth wash placed in a spray bottle will ward off mosquito's. The article I read it in swore it works???

 

[JohnnyI]

Ticks are the big problem here in NJ right now. I managed to finally coax my wife into going detecting with me the other day in the pines, and in a period of less than a half hour she found 26 ticks on her. She's through ever detecting with me now. I had five or six, but I'm not as sweet I guess. If you've got something that really works for ticks I'll buy it. So far for mosquitos or black flies I've used 'skin so soft" on occasion and it seems to work okay.

 

[bcoop]

People also swear by Skin so Soft by Avon, you might want to let your wife know before you come home from a sweaty day of detecting smelling all girly though.

bcoop aka Bill Cooper

 

[JohnnyI]

Ha, if you so this haggard old mug of mine you'd know she has no reason to worry

 

[bcoop]

n/t

 

[Bowie]

Being an old bowhunter, I would start in late summer scouting in the woods for deer sign. Ticks,redbugs would devour me. I found the pet spray you can get at Vets/Vet supplies works excellent. I would spray my clothes prior to an outing in the woods. Ticks and redbugs became history. As far as mosquitoes, they are a different foe. I find something with deet works best and spray it on my clothes and let it dry. The Off clip on thingy is Ok, if you are stationary and not moving about.
You can buy clothing that is like mosquito netting,only thing is, it snags easily on small limbs,bushes etc. The clothing works well if you are seated and not moving around.
Yep, them mosquitoes are troublesome. If any of you find the magic bullet, let me in on the secret.
John

 

[vikingvic]

works ok but just ok not great

There is one of those clip-ons that is called Thermacell.
It sells for around $35 here in Canada.
It is supposed to be very good.
None of them work well if it is windy.

Good luck with the tick problem, they can be very nasty. Don't

 

[txrpls]

I am a land surveyor in Texas and 30 years ago the ticks would eat us alive. Not we have fire ants and the ticks are mostly gone, however if you stand in a fire ant bed by mistake you will come completely out of your clothes fast. When I go to the field now I spray Deep Wood OFF on my boots, pants cuffs and the waist of my pants. I have found one tick on me in the last five years. Back in the really bad tick days we would also dust our cuffs and boots with sulphur powder. We would also take sulphur cream of tatar tablets, but if you pass gas in public you will kill someone.

 

[sharpshooter]

We would also take sulphur cream of tatar tablets, but if you pass gas in public you will kill someone.

I used to know somebody like that. You only pulled his finger once. Mercy!

 

[Jack Flynn]

Permanone is the only thing to use. Spray all your clothes with it and let them dry. It will last for weeks keeping off everything except snakes. Keep in mind in tick and mosquito infested woods you should be wearing long sleeve shirts and long pants sprayed heavily with it. Do not put it on the naked skin, it will chap it rather quickly.