Pete D
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A lot depends on the bugs you want to deter -- DEET is a skeeter deterrence, but won't do a thing for NoSeeUms or sand gnats -- Those take a thick oil like SkinSoSoft or plain vegetable oil -- But the thick oils don't work very well for the skeeters unless it is thick enough to get them tangled in it!
I dunno what works well for black flies, aka buffalo gnats. I use head net (dark is best, hard to see out of white net) and clothes.
Yellow jackets and wasps can be controlled in campsite setting by putting out paper cup 1/4 filled with sugary drink like Coke or Pepsi. They are attracted and then get stuck in it. Be sure to watch kids carefully that they don't drink from soda can that might have a was in it!!!
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How did you use the DEET? It is designed to keep bug from biting. They will still come flying around the campsite. The outdoor foggers and citronella candles can help deter them and for mosquitoes the fan will help also.
Also 30% DEET isn't going to last on your skin all day. You do need to reapply after 4 hours.
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calgon morning glory.try it
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Pete D wrote:Yellow jackets and wasps can be controlled in campsite setting by putting out paper cup 1/4 filled with sugary drink like Coke or Pepsi. They are attracted and then get stuck in it. Be sure to watch kids carefully that they don't drink from soda can that might have a was in it!!!
What works better than a cup is take a soda or water bottle, cut the top off where the angle meets the side, fill with 2" soda, and put the cut off top back on backwards into the bottle a bit.
The bees fly in and can't fly out.
Oh, and I agree about watching the kids. I remember an incident where some small boy, about 11 yrs old, drank out of a cup with a yellow jacket inside, it stung the poor kid in the throat, it swelled up and may he rest in peace. It was TERRIBLE. I always put my fingers over the hole when the bees are whizzing around.
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crazyoldcoot
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Snopes should have been with me on Memorial Day weekend! Skeeter were bad! Went to Dollar store and got a spray bottle and a bottle of imitation Listerine. Worked for me.
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Vulcaneer
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Take a few bits of raw hamburg, and put it 10 feet up wind of where you want to be. The skeeters will go there.
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Great-Dane wrote:....1st only the females bite.. Not for food but lay in larva for their young.....
Oh, puleeze.... Mosquitos lay eggs in still water (like puddles, ponds, empty trash cans, etc). They DO NOT bite you and leave eggs behind.
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SAR you misunderstand.. I never said they lay eggs ON or IN you..
You have an active mind reading into things and "alone" in pointing out what most of us kinda knew (common sense about eggs in stagnant waters)but thanks for sharing. You've been watching too many sci-fi's to read that into it. 
The FEMALES, dead accurate info, collect blood not to feed on but to lay eggs. On people? No silly! Back in stale waters.. Get it now?
What I was sharing is the fact FEMALES bite not the males. Read slower!
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Oh, OK... I'm not gonna get into a peeing match. 
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vwsportbug
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Ditto the MUSKOL recommendation. Works good but it is smelly and sticky to use. Sure beats being eaten up by swarms of hungry mosquitos.....
lesmore49 wrote:I use MUSKOL. It's the best, but it has lots of DEET. If I can't get Muskol, I use Deep Woods Off, but I prefer Muskol.
I recreate in Manitoba and N.W. Ontario....biting bug capital of the world, as we know it.
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