Best Mosquito/black fly repellant

**The Saint** · 05-20-2008 02:05 PM

So it's that time of year again when the bugs are hungry for our blood. In your experience what is the best repellent?

**ironmaster15213** · 05-20-2008 02:11 PM

..........I vote for somebody in your group smoking fine cigars.......well it worked last year with Twoody

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Originally Posted by Chris St. Michael

So it's that time of year again when the bugs are hungry for our blood. In your experience what is the best repellent?

**The Saint** · 05-20-2008 02:23 PM

I brought cigars last year as well, but I kept on losing them. Everytime I'd go to hit the ball I'd have to put it down then walk away and forgetting it..

**kerisb** · 05-20-2008 02:37 PM

I look for the insect repellent with the most amount of "deet" in it. Usually use "deep woods" or "muskol". Keep a bottle of it in my bag all year round!!

**Sakuraba** · 05-20-2008 02:38 PM

Watkins. It works. I have a tube in my bag, and I just bought a little clip-on bottle of it the other day.

My only beef is that it is pretty greasy, you must wash your hands thoroughly before golfing. I do the intense application, then wash hands, then rub the back of my neck with the back of my hands so I don't get bites there.

I am extremely attractive to biting insects for some reason (could be the fabulous moustache) The watkins is pretty serious, contains deet, but also something more sinister. I forget what exactly.

**sillywilly** · 05-20-2008 02:54 PM

bg458 owns the cigar shop in carlingwood mall... shameless plug LOL

someone posted one last year, 99% deet or something??

**LobWedge** · 05-20-2008 04:19 PM

Anything with 28-29% DEET is fine. Watkins is great stuff, but as Sakuraba says, greasy stuff.

**TWoody** · 05-20-2008 04:50 PM

Originally Posted by ironmaster15213

..........I vote for somebody in your group smoking fine cigars.......well it worked last year with Twoody

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Bugs don't like Cubans

. They also don't like the smell of bounce sheets and you'll see me wiping down with them and carrying extra in my bag this weekend.
TWoody

**LobWedge** · 05-20-2008 05:16 PM

Originally Posted by TWoody

Bugs don't like Cubans

. They also don't like the smell of bounce sheets and you'll see me wiping down with them and carrying extra in my bag this weekend.
TWoody

And no static cling!

**Marcos** · 05-20-2008 06:00 PM

Chris, the secret to this is swinging the club with the cigar in your mouth.Works fine for me.LOL.

quote=Chris St. Michael;254917]I brought cigars last year as well, but I kept on losing them. Everytime I'd go to hit the ball I'd have to put it down then walk away and forgetting it..

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**ironmaster15213** · 05-20-2008 07:12 PM

Just for laughs have you been getting anywhere as much rain up there as we have in Pa. I think it has rained 5 out of 7 days each week for the last month. If it has rained a lot in Belleville it's going to be buggy, and I might add soft scoring conditions

see every cloud has a silver lining if your a golfer

**big mac** · 05-20-2008 07:24 PM

Wadkins--hands down---Le Baron sports----near CJOH on Merivale Road

**rancherJ** · 05-20-2008 07:37 PM

[/QUOTE]look for the insect repellent with the most amount of "deet" in it. Usually use "deep woods" or "muskol". Keep a bottle of it in my bag all year round!![/QUOTE]the military also uses a formula with a high concentration of Deet.
The higher the better end of story nothing else comes close.
check "snopes" for all the UL mosquito solutions

**dbleber** · 05-20-2008 08:36 PM

You use to be able to get Army issue with 99% deet, it was pretty harsh stuff, had a bottle leak through my kit one time and it melted plastic and stained everything. Kept the bugs away, but you smelled like bug spray for about a week afterwards. They stopped using it because it was linked to cancer, I think I'd take the bug bites.

**The Saint** · 05-20-2008 08:48 PM

Originally Posted by TWoody

Bugs don't like Cubans

. They also don't like the smell of bounce sheets and you'll see me wiping down with them and carrying extra in my bag this weekend.
TWoody

Lance are you Cuban? I don't think he is, so I'll have to go with the bounce sheets.

**Kiwi** · 05-20-2008 10:04 PM

You can buy mosquito "sheets" now. I think they are OFF. Try Zellers or Wal-Mart. Too bad they don't make a combo bug spray/sun screen.

Bouche · 05-21-2008 12:04 AM

OFF Kids insect repellant....the one that has an orange smell

j/k that stuff is crap but it makes ya smell good

**rancherJ** · 05-21-2008 06:01 AM

They stopped using it because it was linked to cancer, I think I'd take the bug bites.

not sure about that...

www.deetonline.org

**golfott** · 05-21-2008 07:40 AM

it was the % of deet that was lowered. As mentioned above, you used to be able to get 95% deet in deep woods, but now it is limited to soemthign like 23%, they have looked at the % and desicded it was harmful.

in the end, many people have many theories on what stops mosquitoes, but really, deet is the only truly effective performer.

**dbleber** · 05-21-2008 08:19 AM

Originally Posted by rancherJ

not sure about that...

www.deetonline.org

I'm not a scientist or a doctor, I know that there were health risks and it had to be dramatically lowered. Looks like it wasn't linked to cance just neurological damage, so I guess that's ok

. They don't make it any more either way.

I'd trust some of these sites rather then deetonline, which looks like it's probably sponsered by manufactures.

http://www.environmentalhealth.ca/spring03hazards.html

http://www.naturalnews.com/001586.html

**TWoody** · 05-21-2008 08:30 AM

Originally Posted by ironmaster15213

Just for laughs have you been getting anywhere as much rain up there as we have in Pa. I think it has rained 5 out of 7 days each week for the last month. If it has rained a lot in Belleville it's going to be buggy, and I might add soft scoring conditions

see every cloud has a silver lining if your a golfer

Not a lot of rain here Frank. Maybe once a week. With that said it should start sometime today and end by Thursday.
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/weather/caon0056
The weekend is sizing up to be great.
TWoody

**TWoody** · 05-21-2008 08:35 AM

Originally Posted by Chris St. Michael

Lance are you Cuban? I don't think he is, so I'll have to go with the bounce sheets.

Chris are you saying you'd only smoke Lance if he was Cuban. A little prejudice eh!

TWoody

**justsomeguy** · 05-21-2008 11:00 AM

Originally Posted by Kiwi

You can buy mosquito "sheets" now. I think they are OFF. Try Zellers or Wal-Mart. Too bad they don't make a combo bug spray/sun screen.

I have bought combo bug spray/sun screen at Zellers & Wal-Mart before. Can't remember whether they stock it with the suncreen or the bug spray, but it is available.

**rancherJ** · 05-21-2008 12:36 PM

I'm not a scientist or a doctor, I know that there were health risks and it had to be dramatically lowered. Looks like it wasn't linked to cance just neurological damage, so I guess that's ok . They don't make it any more either way.

The deet online website has some excellent links to the Mayo clinic,New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Toxicology to name a few. Good ol' snopes is great place to look too. BTW I don't believe in Global warming either
:-p

**g8r** · 05-21-2008 01:58 PM

Originally Posted by rancherJ

The deet online website has some excellent links to the Mayo clinic,New England Journal of Medicine, Journal of Toxicology to name a few. Good ol' snopes is great place to look too. BTW I don't believe in Global warming either
:-p

The term "global warming" should be banned because its so misleading. Its really "climate change" that should be talked about.

you hear "Global warming my butt" when it snows in May or it cold too long, but noone was mentioning global warming when it rained for a week and was +10 in January.

**rancherJ** · 05-21-2008 02:13 PM

OK to clarifyI don't believe in "Climate change"

caused by man climate change that is

**Nat Williams** · 05-21-2008 04:42 PM

I used to use the 95% deet when treeplanting ... cover your hard hat in it and you don't even need to put any on your body.

fyi I wouldn't do that w/ a golf hat that you like. After 1 month my hardhat was scarred/melted all over from the Deet ... it's pretty harsh stuff. Can't imagine what it would do to fabric over a long period.

**Sakuraba** · 05-21-2008 04:50 PM

Yeah, I'm old enough to remember the 1st time the "trucker" style baseball hat was prevalent, and the %98 deet muskol would literally melt the mesh of those hats on contact.

I just find the watkins doesn't smell (as bad) & does the same job.

**mberube** · 05-30-2008 03:34 PM

I have herd something about Listerine original flavor is great as bug repellent. Nice sent too. I’ll try it eventually.

**Kilroy** · 05-30-2008 03:40 PM

I heard about a new repellant that is much more effective than Deet. Unfortunately I didn't get the skinny, but I did hear that it's under testing now and may be made available soon.

I know, that's very vague but I just caught the end of the broadcast on the A-Channel morning show the other day. Anyone know more about it?

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