Insects

[Teddybear]

My first summer of detecting...........What does everyone do about mosquitos and ticks...........?....I was out last night and was run out by the mosqs.....Hard to enjoy detecting with sweat running in your eyes and mosquitos chewing ya up...Will deal with the sweat but need ideas on the bugs......Thanks Dave

 

[MNCoinhunter]

Not much you can do except dose yourself good with Deep Woods Off, or another repellant with a high DEET content. Or, as I may try this year, go out detecting at night once the bugs settle down.

 

[Teddybear]

A friend who hunts told me there is something you can attach to your belt........A cannister of something or other that REALLY WORKS....Plan on looking in to that later.Says no need to spray all kinds of gooey junk on ya....Stay tuned as I look in to what he talking about.I'm sure others with have ideas when they catch this post.Thanks Dave

 

[Joel-Winnipeg]

I sometime use mosquito netting fits over head face and neck.
Long sleeve shirt sprayed with repellent.

 

[LandOLincoln]

I just use deep woods off but its starting to get warm here and you have to keep applying it to keep the buffalo gnats and skeeters off ya. I forgot it last week and have 7 nice big bumps on my neck and head from the buffalo gnats!

 

[Dan-Pa.]

Watch some of those sprays and such as they can do a a number on rubber armrests, plastic screens and even paint..Always try to keep them off my hands..Some use Avon skin so soft but won't again as hunting a local park was approached by for lack of better words( a happy guy) who asked me what kind of after shave I was wearing as it was driving him crazy( nuff said)...
Now use one with deets as it keeps the little or for that matter the big fellas away....

 

[dabbie1]

Two cheap sray ons that really work, regular listerine or Skin so soft put either in sray bottle and spray on.I do and both work.Wayne

 

[Muddyshoes]

Mosquitos and bugs are aweful here in the south when detecting, especially when you are around water, bushes, etc.

Not everyone is as susceptible and us larger folks tend to excrete a lot more carbon dioxide which can really attract the bugs. Some people don't attract many bugs at all, so no one solution or product works well for everyone.

When using deet, make sure you also spray around your socks and cuffs and other places where bugs can find their way into and under your clothes. And as Dan-Pa says, many Deet products will melt, corrode, tarnish or discolor plastics like buttons, detector screens, armrests, etc. I go Geocaching also, and I destroyed the button panel of a $500 handheld color GPS when I oversprayed with deet and it completely corroded the front of the GPS.

If you perspire a lot like I do, careful with deet around the face, you will sweat that stuff into your eyes and it will burn.

Happy Hunting!

 

[metalhead]

I've tried that "OFF" clip-on thing that clips onto your belt. It takes batteries and has a little fan that keeps blowing. I didn't think it worked all that great. Still got ate up by mossies(skeeters).
Believe it or not, the thing that my wife and I found that works best and is least annoying to use (like nasty sprays can be) is "BOUNCE" drier sheets. Yep, that's right. Bounce drier sheets keep all the bugs away and they smell great. Don't rub it directly onto your skin. Simply just wipe/rub sheet onto your clothing. I also tie the sheet off onto one of my belt loops. Must be "BOUNCE" brand of drier sheets. I don't know what they put in those things that keeps the bugs away, but it sure does work.
Best of luck to ya!Happy Hunting!