west nile virus/insect spray?
 

What do you recommend for skeeter repellent during the early season. West Nile Virus is all over Nebraska, and it is reccommended to wear bug spray this year, but I dont want to blow a hunt because of it. Any Ideas?

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Permethrine- use on clothing only

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Though I have not yet experimented with it, the " No Stinkin' Bugs" brand of repellant is now in my hunting cabinet. It supposedly works well in terms of repelling several biting insects and yet has no odor. I will be using it, as an experiment, during a scouting trip or two before the season starts and can report more then.

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The " No Stinkin Bugs" mosquito spray with earth scent works pretty good but this year I' ll be using my thermocell. No noticable odor and repels mosquitos up to 7' away in all directions. (15ft. diameter). I tested it out in the most mosquito infested florida swamp near my home and it worked fantastic.The only draw back of the thermocell is it basically costs about $6 for every twelve hours of use.

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Shannons bug tamer treated with Duranon!

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permithrine spray won' t do much good for mosquitoes it' s made for ticks.
If youre gonna use spray it needs to be have deet , but even that isn' t 100% effective. Use spray with a bug suit. A better option would probably be a thermacell...I' ve heard some good reports...;)

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Never heard of this " thermacell" !

Where can one find it?

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kimndavid- to tell you the truth I rely mostly on my clothes and headnet to keep mosquitoes away I use the permethrin mainly for ticks, but it says right on the can that it is for ticks and mosquitoes and Iv' e never really had a problem. You are right about the deet, though it does tend to smell some. Thats why I use the Permethrin. You can use the deet on your skin and the permethrin on your clothes to be well protected.

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scent shield no stickin bugs, love it.

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I just bought some. Its called " Repel" . It has an earth scent to it. And it is supposed to repel, black flies, ticks, chiggers, mosquitoes, etc.

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Check WAlmart, K-mart, or your local hardware stores...
I got one at the ACE hardware and one at walmart.
Also check the internet. Just type in THERMACELL.

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Well I got on the net after posting my question about the Thermacell and got the low down on the product.

I purchased the compact model (least expensive) from a local drug store. I tried it out yesterday while working on the house.

From my inital trial I give it 2 thumbs up. Seems to be well worth the money!!

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micdundee -Does that repel come in two different style such as original and earth scent? I purchased a can today for checking on my stands and the Repel I got smelled a little like off not earth. But for just checking things out I didn' t mind by the way it worked just fine. Ps. It does come in 2 different strengths. I bought the more potent one at 29 percent deet. As I said it worked fine.