nothing beats permethrin for treating your clothing and equipment. I use it on my hunting gear, tents, backpacks, pants, shirts, hats. mosquitoes don't really like to go near it, and ticks will die shortly after contact with it. Its good stuff, and lasts for weeks without reapplication.
I've got a thing against ticks and mosquitoes. I hate them so much I've spent probably weeks of my life trying to find ways to remove them from my life.
For home, I have both a bug zapper, and a mosquito magnet executive (it uses propane to generate heat and co2 to lure the female mosquitoes in). And it does a pretty damn fabulous job, I've got a cup of dead ones since april. It has cut down the population immensely.
For large mosquito clouds in your camp, make it a game. You can get electronic mosquito zappers (look like tennis rackets) for a few bucks each, and hand them out to the kids. Heck, Im going to bring EXTRA just to give to the kids running around camp sites just so they can kill the mosquitoes for me!
Thermacell: It works pretty well out east here. Here's some other options for you if you are traveling: The same active ingredient is used in the Off "candle" with the blue rectangle cartridge, the off "coil" , and the other company (I cant remember) sells green "sticks" which you light and it smokes. All three use the same ingredient, and works rather well for east coast buggers. But it *DIDNT USED TO.*
In the past few years, the asian tiger mosquito has grown in population.
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these pesky !@#! holes fly slow, but they are persistent, and don't seem to have the same "buzzy" sound as regular mosquitoes. the bad part is, they come out during DAYTIME hours.
I say didn't used to because the first time I lit one of the coils, It reminded me of a smell I remember from when I was a kid traveling in asia. It was the mosquito coils from "back in the day!". So the increase of tiger mosquitoes have made these devices more effective.
The off "personal clip" doesn't work here. Tried it, didn't work for me. I did use some stick on citronella patches that *sometimes* works, just depends on the type of buggers you have.
And then there is deet. the Ultra thon does work well. I carry a 100% deet pump spray (the little stick) for those times that I wasn't planning on being outside, (impromptu bbq?).