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Favorite Skeeter Repellent ?

PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 4:12 am
by lcarreau
On my first trip to Alaska, I brought (and applied) a generous amount of DEET. It didn't seem to work very good.

On my most recent trip, I used a fair amount of "Avon Skin-So-Soft." It actually worked a hell of a lot better than the DEET, and my skin also benefited ... besides getting a few "cat calls" from the Locals, which heightened my self-esteem ..

Can anybody else share a similar experience with them nasty skeeters? What say YOU?

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Re: Favorite Skeeter Repellent ?

PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 4:25 am
by lcarreau
Here's a graph for all you graph 'n chart Affectionados ..

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Re: Favorite Skeeter Repellent ?

PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 5:02 am
by lcarreau
Okay, I see how it is. I know what ya 'all are WATCHING ..

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Re: Favorite Skeeter Repellent ?

PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 5:51 am
by MoapaPk
http://www.snopes.com/oldwives/skeeters.asp

I treat my clothes with permethrin several times a year (mainly as a defense against ticks), and use 100% DEET for extremities. I've seen wide variations in how much people get attacked by mosquitoes.

Re: Favorite Skeeter Repellent ?

PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 6:50 am
by Enkidu
MoapaPk wrote:http://www.snopes.com/oldwives/skeeters.asp

I treat my clothes with permethrin several times a year (mainly as a defense against ticks), and use 100% DEET for extremities. I've seen wide variations in how much people get attacked by mosquitoes.


Right on the money. Having worked on the shores of Hudson Bay for a few years the only thing that worked was DEET, DEET and more DEET plus bug jacket and head-net. In the non-winter months (all 1 to 2 of them) this region has an epic mosquito population. A researcher team found that a person with exposed arms, legs and torso (read can't pay me enough for that assignment) could expect up to 9,000 bites per minute and would actually be in danger of dying from blood loss in as little as 4 hours.

Re: Favorite Skeeter Repellent ?

PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 6:55 am
by Enkidu
lcarreau wrote:On my first trip to Alaska, I brought (and applied) a generous amount of DEET. It didn't seem to work very good.


Maybe that batch of DEET was supplied by Bernie Madoff.

Re: Favorite Skeeter Repellent ?

PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 7:34 am
by Ben Beckerich
All I have to contribute is.... don't get DEET on anything plastic. I broke so much stuff last summer..

Re: Favorite Skeeter Repellent ?

PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 4:23 pm
by lcarreau
whitetail wrote:
lcarreau wrote:On my first trip to Alaska, I brought (and applied) a generous amount of DEET. It didn't seem to work very good.


Maybe that batch of DEET was supplied by Bernie Madoff.


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Re: Favorite Skeeter Repellent ?

PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 4:26 pm
by lcarreau
Thanks for the suggestions, but I'm stickin' with 'SKIN-SO-SOFT ..'

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Re: Favorite Skeeter Repellent ?

PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 8:36 pm
by Kai
Ultrathon works best.

Encapsulated, so it lasts longer and less is absorbed into your body.

Re: Favorite Skeeter Repellent ?

PostPosted: Thu Aug 09, 2012 10:48 pm
by MoapaPk
Note OFF! Skintastic is just 7% DEET. The rest of the ingredients are listed as "hippie-useless-feel-good-crap."

Re: Favorite Skeeter Repellent ?

PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 2:23 am
by Marmaduke
lcarreau wrote:Okay, I see how it is. I know what ya 'all are WATCHING ..

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To keep this "on topic", can we get a close up of them applying deet to each other? Cuz yes, that's what we were watching, it's over and they got Gold again.

Re: Favorite Skeeter Repellent ?

PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 2:56 am
by colinr
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Re: Favorite Skeeter Repellent ?

PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 3:00 am
by colinr
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Re: Favorite Skeeter Repellent ?

PostPosted: Fri Aug 10, 2012 3:20 am
by colinr
Hit them with a potato.

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