Bounce vs mosquitos ?
 

has anyone heard of this ?
using Bounce sheets to repel mosquitos ? http://www.totallyfreecrap.com/Image...aug/bounce.jpg

will be doing a quick impromptu test ths evening in the bush
i'll wipe a Bounce sheet over my face/neck and hands/arms
and give this test an hour


i just hope my results aren't influenced by my wants


EDIT: and would the cheaper generic stuff work too ?

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If you can afford Bounce sheets you should be able to afford a can of 25% DEET spray.

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i would think a box of Bounce sheets will last longer than some spray

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or a 1/4 can of 100% DEET. :biggrin:

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With all the hunting and camping I do, I still can make a can of 25% DeepWoods OFF last me about 2 years. Granted In East Central Indiana, mosquitos really only seem to be a big problem from June through September. Do you think the bounce sheets are gonna saty viable 2 years after opened??? I just don't see any real advantage in you experimenting with Bounce sheets.

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Thanks for the list of chemicals, I'm not sure which of those actually
stay on the clothes after the heat of the dryer blasts them...
but the ones left cause me to have an asthmatic attack.

We've had to go to perfume and dye free detergent and dryer sheets.

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Or in otherwords: there is probably a damn good reason the mosquitos avoid them.

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i don't know how long a box of Bounce will last
but right now i'm doing this experiment for future reference ( Canadian mythbusters ? )
if TSHTF soon, would there be any sprays available in August ?

and thanks to Wildcard for the " chemicals " article

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I feel much better since I have not been using the perfumed laundry stuff!
Try natural stuff like citronella oil. Search the web for Natural Mosquito repellents

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speaking of:
while in a dollar store,
came across a " citronella " plastic bracelet
supposed to be good for 120 hours

plus the dollar mosquito head net
i already have a good supply of these

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Bwahahaha.

Mosquito repellant. Try going somewhere where there actually ARE mosquitos. In my area, they eat citronella and urinate deet, then chow down on your flesh. Even DDT doesn't make much of a dent.

Your best bet for dealing w/ mosquitos after the balloon goes up? Put away your ovaries.:tongue_ma:

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Yeah and water causes drowning.
Dude, most of those chems are in everyday use for things like cleaning eyeglasses.
I drink ethanol by the gallon and the EPA can go suck an egg calling it hazardous waste.
Camphor would be the ingredient that is most certainly repelling bugs. You will find camphor in OTC bug repellents.

Citronella, being touted by the greenies works on mosquitoes by dissolving the lining of their trachea and effectively asphyxiating them if they remain in its presence. Guess, what? It's a major source of "upper respiratory inflammation" as well. It is not good for you no matter how natural it is. This will go for anything you apply to repel pests except for maybe Lavender oil.
If you want to piss off pests you're going to have to piss off your own immune system. the idea is you are bigger and can take it better than they can. Sure beats blood borne pathogens or anaphylactic shock from antihistamine overdose (the latter I have been hospitalized for).

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And just what have ovaries got to do with mozzie bites, Nancy Girl?

Still picking up your lemon coloured skirts from your plantation days? Maybe why you feel the need to eat so much Beef now?

______

I heard Bounce sheets made a good thing to use on dogs/cats. I now doubt it is safe, having read what is it in.

PS You want to meet Black Fly, hero!

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,,,my kids use it while playing softball. They tie the sheets on to their shoes [cleats]; seems to work just fine.

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Well....this gets into old fart days, but

Ever looked at how people dressed before chemical magic?

Long sleeved shirts. Long pants. Hats. Gloves.

I learned this early.......worked summers as a kid on

A Wyoming sheep/hay ranch.

The mosquitoes there regularly carried off "lambs and small children."

Jack B., who was I think either 3rd or 4th generation on that land,

Always wore trousers, not jeans, a long sleeved button down shirt,

Typical stockman boots, and, not a stetson, but a boonie hat with a

Mosquito veil. He was a practical man.

The first week of the first summer I was there, I showed up in cutoffs

And tshirts. By the end of the week I was welted bad from end to end.

Nell, his, wife, took me in to town on Saturday, and got me outfitted right.

I've basically worn it ever since.

Several points about this style of dressing.

Bugs can drill through tight clothing, they have a hell of a time with loose.

Loose clothing works superbly in high or low temperatures in terms of

Maintaining appropriate body temp., even when you are doing hard labor.

There is a ton of literature on this.

Full clothing also helps a ton with aggregate solar exposure, thus melanoma

And a few other uglies. Now, I know it is the minority of people who are

In the weather, all day, every day, these days, but GIMer's seem to get

More of that kind of exposure than most.

Final point, it isn't only mosquitoes.

In Wyoming, deerflies.

In Massachusetts, the dread "greenheads"

Minnesota, the seasonal blackfly scourge.

All of the above draw blood - they bite to achieve their purpose.

This style of dress backs them off, also.


FWIW


scyth

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Very good post scyth.

I agree much. The area I have trouble with is the neck, shoulders and upper back. No way to keep the fabric away from the body.
And here in Florida, we have a special kind of heat, reminiscent of the air inside a drier filled with wet clothes. Nobody wants to be out there in the middle of the day. Not the dog, not the chickens, and no, not even the skeeters. The sun just eats you up.

I've often wondered if it were possible to drown from sweat off my forehead down here.

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Just knew there was something very very poisonous about "fabric softener"; what a horrible smell!!! Have had a old pair of tennis shoes in the dryer doing that job for decades. Thanks Wildcard!


Sawyers odorless 98% DEET is pretty effective stuff. Just got 2 ounces on sale for $3.29

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Never knowed that GIM were such a sissified lot.
Dryer sheets ? Yeah I'm gonna doub that , but you let us know.
DEET? Hell, why not? Shit they spray on our food is much worse, and as notes a little 4 ounce can of this stuff can work, and work well, for years.


Me? I got a probelm with you cause you need this shit.
Mosquitos are part of life. They are part of natue. They are part of camping.
Calendula is a cure-all(you will never see) but why not just avoid if that's the real issue here.

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Only thing I ever heard that usually worked was DEET, sorry.
There's anecdotal stuff, everything under the sun has been claimed.

I am told that DEET doesn't work for Alaskan mosquitoes at all; different kind of mosquitoes maybe. That could include much of Canada too I guess.... A lot of outdoor workers in Alaska tend to smoke cigarettes, because cigarette smoke is about the only thing the bugs don't like.

Long clothes works too, if it is practical. This depends on the particular combination of heat and humidity you're dealing with locally.


(-The bit below is not so much for survival use as a recreational-type thing you might benefit from knowing about-)

What I use for the occasional telescope session is the Thermacell doo-dads.
http://www.mosquitorepellent.com/
These cost about $25 or so at Wal-Mart and other chain places.
I heard about these from other astronomy buffs. I know that it works great for IL mosquitoes, as long as there's no wind.

It gives off a faint citrus smell when running, but doesn't leave YOU smelling like anything, and doesn't seem to give off any films that affect telescope optics (-and amateur astronomers are a very picky lot about keeping the glass clean-).


-end-

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golly gee, mr momopanda, i wish i could be a real he-man like you

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Okay. I was out of line and apologize. Didn't mean it as an attack on you directly CG, so much as a general rant.
What the heck did our grandparents do before chemicals and electronics?
They seem to be the answer to everything these days.
I'm just anti-progress and cranky i think.
Anyway, easy to preach when the skeeters don't bite me.
Sorry again.

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no probs, skeeters can even drive a statue crazy

just saw this thing about Bounce and mosquitos on the net
and i thought i'd check it out and maybe do a little experiment myself

maybe i'll email Mythbusters about this one

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SOS does provide some degree of repellent. If you are wearing SOS and everyone else is unprotected you will get along unbitten.

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Skin-So-Soft didn't provide any significant effect of repellent, at least not by any common scientific standards.

After the rumor took off, the company that makes it came out with a new vline of products named "bug guard plus" that did have some repellent in it-

http://www.pesticideinfo.org/Detail_...Rec_Id=PC36215

because even they knew the original stuff had nothing in it that had ever been shown to be any effective repellent, and people were buying the plain stuff and getting pissed off when it didn't keep mosquitoes away.

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I can personally vouch for that dryer sheets do the trick. Used to work as a claims adjuster for national insurance company on natural disasters. Worked a few hurricanes where the mosquitos were terrible, especially one in south Texas where the hurricane blew in these huge, voracious mosquitos from Mexico. A dryer sheet hung on a lanyard around the neck, or rubbing down your arms and neck with a dryer sheet was the only thing that would keep them away. Wouldn't hesitate to use it again. I grew up on the Gulf Coast of TX and know how annoying mosquitos can be. Have you ever been woke up at night with one buzzing in your ear? Doesn't get much more annoying than that.

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Hell man ,,,some call them marsh mosquito's

I know better...!!!

They are



B-52 stratofortress Bomber's that just look like mosquito's.

:wink: