NY Times has an internet feature about shopping recommendations. Last week's was on insect repellent

[3Hotdogs]

Their top recommendation was "Ranger Ready" picaridin spray. I bought a bottle from Amazon.


Background: I volunteer weekly, in the N.J. Great Swamp Watershed Association for trail maintenance and building or repairing boardwalks over the water. The place swarms with mosquitos. We wear upper torso mosquito nets and still get one or two bites per work day.

Today, I applied the spray to my arms, face, neck and hair. I put on the net but did not wear it over my head. I figured that if I was getting bites, I would pull the net over my head. I walked through two swarms of mosquitos.... NOT ONE BITE.

It works.


(I do not work for the company, I do not sell the product, I do not have stock in the company.)

[Tetrachloride]

1. if it keeps away ticks, that would be keen

[3Hotdogs]

2. Also works for ticks and chiggers.

Tetrachloride ---- reminds me of a guy I worked with. He was like the character in the L'l Abner comics. The guy with the rain cloud over his head.

Anyways, if something was gonna go wrong, it would land on Joe. One time, he was driving and his car got hit by a fire engine, coming back from a fire.

But the particular time was when he was working on his car and cleaning parts with carbon tet. He had a nose bleed that lasted two weeks.