Paddle on the crow
MN
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Last summer I purchased a couple of these. Bug Button I only used them twice but was quite impressed. Everyone around me was spraying on skeeter spray and still slapping there ankles but they weren't bothering me a bit. The only advice is pin them down low on your shirt as they do smell a bit, but not enough to choose the skeeters over the smell. I'm guessing if you put one close to the camper door it would keep them from coming in. (I wouldn't put one in the camper though as it would probalbly start to reek after awhile.)
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catvet
Atlanta
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Napalm or camping in the middle of a Walmart parking lot. Funny, the bugs never really bothered me when we tent camped but now that we have a camper, we can't stand sharing space with them....
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swebber
Brunswick , MD
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mockturtle wrote:Keep a fan going all the time. You can even run a portable one outside.
Good advise ! We run fans inside (small box) and out (20" box, usually during the day).
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out#d-butoutside
S. Florida
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I have an electric bug zapper. If there are flying pests in the PuP I can use it as a dim light and zap the bugs.
The smell of citronella bugs me as well as the bugs. Sorry bad pun.
More as a way to get rid of them than avoid them.
M
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mockturtle
Northwest
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catvet wrote:Napalm or camping in the middle of a Walmart parking lot. Funny, the bugs never really bothered me when we tent camped but now that we have a camper, we can't stand sharing space with them.... Yeah, napalm!! 'I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like....victory!'
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SwanInWA
The Evergreen State
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"How do you keep pests from entering your trailer?"
I usually just tell them to go back to their OWN campsite! LOL! (someone had to do it!)
Seriously, we mainly only have problems with mosquitoes, and those we keep at bay with a combination of bug candles around the campsite and repellent. If it's really bad we'll bring a can of "Yard Guard" and actually spray the perimeter of our campsite, the bushes and things. It works WONDERFULLY.
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Yooperwannabe
Illinois
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We never seem to have much trouble with pests except one year. The mosquitoes were really bad in the UP of Michigan. The first night at the campground we had to sleep with the sheets over our heads to keep mosquitoes off and we hardly slept listening to them buzz around. The next day the DH made sure the screen room was as "enclosed" as possible and then he started looking for any gaps that he could see and sealed them up sometimes using plastic grocery bags. About an hour or so before bedtime he sprayed the inside of the pup with a mosquito spray, then walked around the perimeter of the pup looking for light shinning through any gaps. Once these were plugged with plastic and the smell fo the mosquito spray was gone in the pup, he lit up a couple of citronella candles. We were not bothered by one single mosquito that evening. The rest of our stay we simply lit the citronella candles at dusk and no further problems.
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kfc
SC
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I use OFF Lanterns. I just sit them around our campsite and light them at dust. The candle last about four hours. So the next night I put in a refill. It may not be the cheapest way to go but it works for us. I have also used Yard Guard.
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scruffre
Cobourg Ontario
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We've found haning a Vapona No Pest Strip helps keep the flying pests out, also keeps the spiders out
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xzyfsk
Fortville Indiana
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Leave your Mother-in-law at home.
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