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What do you guys use to deal with pic related when you're innawoods? Tips and tricks for dealing with bugs of all shapes and sizes, particularly black flies and ticks which are going to be a problem for me soon.
>>788526
Tie jumping spiders to your socks and collar with horse hair, that's what Pa used to do.
>>788526
Get 100% deet, that's shit downs low flying birds
Put Jill to work
>>788526
Get really good with throwing knives
Really though just camp above the tree line
>>788526
Insects are poor traders so I don't often deal with them.
>>788531
>willfully putting poison on your body/clothing
I never understood this.
I extreme circumstances covering exposed skin in mud works pretty well. When to use?
When the bugs become so unbearable you'd rather be caked in mud then be meneced a moment longer.
>>788975
>thinking a few hours with poison on your skin is worse than Lymes disease or encephalitis.
Yea, 100% deet is probably going nuclear, but picaridin works. Or 20% deet.
