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maybe we can get a 55 gal drum of it and fabricate a delivery system for Labzone’s drone so we can crop dust the campout.
Like crop dusting!
Not all who wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkien
Used the new Tick Spray today and nothing. However, 32 degrees is not the best weather for those little buggers!!
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
-Henry David Thoreau
Used CedarCide this weekend in 40 degree weather while caching with WisJanine. All four of sprayed up. Mr. WisJanine had one hitchhiker crawling on his pants when we were done, and noticed another on him when we were in the car. I had one on my wrist, and noticed another when back home as I was about to shower, crawling on my leg. Maybe we need to really saturate ourselves with the spray next time; one quick coating didn’t quite do it.
Permanone works great and lasts several washings.
Permanone works great and lasts several washings.
Not sure if this is the same as Permetherin but it lasts several washings also. Hoping for good results with the cedarcide-it is much more body friendly!!
Used CedarCide this weekend in 40 degree weather while caching with WisJanine. All four of sprayed up. Mr. WisJanine had one hitchhiker crawling on his pants when we were done, and noticed another on him when we were in the car. I had one on my wrist, and noticed another when back home as I was about to shower, crawling on my leg. Maybe we need to really saturate ourselves with the spray next time; one quick coating didn’t quite do it.
I have no idea how long it lasts, but when I’m out all day I usually re-apply after a while. It’s not like it coats your body, I think it’s more that the smell drives them away. So if that smell becomes more faint (maybe you were stinky from hiking?) then I would suggest re-applying. I know that Kung Fu Hippie says that he just sprays his ankles and that’s usually OK but I tend to do the whole body.
Not all who wander are lost. -J.R.R. Tolkien
Just was caching today and had the first siting of a tick for the year. I guess they start even earlier than I thought!!
Just was caching today and had the first siting of a tick for the year. I guess they start even earlier than I thought!!
Had one last weekend on the GDT trail.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
-Henry David Thoreau
Boy I really dislike using sunscreen and bug spray, especially when out for a few days and won’t be having a shower. [:/] Just don’t like crawling into my sleeping bag with the chemicals…but sweat is ok [:)]
But man I wish I had that stuff everyone was talking about Memorial Day weekend while out caching! I stopped my tally sheet at about 75! Going after about 6 of Team Northwoods Lonely Caches alone I had over 30 ticks there!!! After getting home and doing a final look over found 2 deer ticks.
They are out and they seem nasty this year, I usually don’t get as many as others when in groups so it must be bad haha.
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Wore Cedarcide for the 4 days we camped on Door County last week. Cached along ditches full of water and along streams and never had a mosquito land on us. Walked through lots of tall grass doing the Door County Smiley Face and saw no ticks on me.
After my first tick encounter a few weeks ago I stocked up on Cedarcide. I’ll be dousing myself in it this coming weekend ha ha
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Out just south of Wittenburg to grab the new caches on the Wiouwash trail out there and even though we doused ourselves with Cedarcide, we were attacked by ticks. Don’t think anything would have warded off the buggers today. 5 hours later and even after multiple tick checks they are still surfacing … Ugghhh! Turned around after 1.7 miles. Will grab those in Fall or Winter. Just a heads up for any attempting that area soon.
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
-Henry David Thoreau
Out just south of Wittenburg to grab the new caches on the Wiouwash trail out there and even though we doused ourselves with Cedarcide, we were attacked by ticks. Don’t think anything would have warded off the buggers today. 5 hours later and even after multiple tick checks they are still surfacing … Ugghhh! Turned around after 1.7 miles. Will grab those in Fall or Winter. Just a heads up for any attempting that area soon.
I wasn’t terribly far from Wittenburg on the MountainBay trail today and ended up with four ticks and I was wearing Cedarcide as well. I might’ve stepped on a nest of them, though, as I only had those four in one spot along the trail. The rest of the way, wading through thigh high grasses and brush, I didn’t get another.
On the latest Pod Cacher podcast, they talk about tick prevention. The link can be found here: http://www.podcacher.com
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Anyone else get a reaction (itching worse and longer than a mosquito bite) to ticks when one manages to attach?
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