Prevent 100% of Bug Bites with these 2 Military Hacks!

The link for the permethrin concentrate mix are in the description as well as links for clothing i'm wearing. Remember it's 10 parts water to 1 part concentrate for 1% spray and 20 parts water to 1 part concentrate for .5% spray.

I worked with a wetlands consultant and we spent hours in hip boots in swamps, with mosquitoes around us in clouds. We took Vit B complex the day before. It's bitter and it comes out in sweat. I would hear skeeters and feel them bumping up against me, but they wouldn't land. All day in the field in a short sleeve shirt and not a single bite on my arms, neck, face or scalp. Alternatively, garlic tablets work, altho I'd get maybe one or two bites. With B Complex, I didn't get any.

I was bitten by a tick from a German Shepherd Dog in 1975. This happened in Alabama. I started feeling dizzy and disoriented while sitting in class. I went to the nurse who sent me to the ER immediately. They found the place, but thought it was a spider bite, so they gave me some antibiotics and sent me home. That night I had a high fever and passed out. The next morning I had the red blisters. I was admitted to the hospital and placed in isolation while an infectious disease specialist tried to diagnose me. After much bloodwork, the diagnosis was Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. I was in the hospital for about 10 days and after release and my blood was monitored every 6 months for several years. I was a healthy, active young woman. After the danger had passed, the doctors told me that many people who do not get treatment by the time the blisters appear, do not make it. I tell you this story for educational purposes. Protect yourself and stay safe out there.

Mom gave us three boys vitamin B complex before camp. We were the only ones not tormented by mosquito or tick bites.

Two old Army techniques here: 1) eat 2-3 paper match heads once a day, so you eventually sweat and smell like sulfur to the bugs. Yes, some would get sick and queasy but we didn’t get eaten. 2) around each boot loosely place a inexpensive dog or cat flea and tick insect collar. This isn’t worn tight, it’s just a loop worn over the boot for bug defense. Tips: your clothing is your first line of defense vs. dirt, sun, insects, vegetation. Full gloves on as much as you can handle, gloves on especially at night when you try to sleep. In the deep woods flip your coat collar up for more protection - - sleeves down almost all the time with your coat tucked into pants. In low terrain, and shallow water crossings, leaches in the tree branches above drop on the “heat source” walking below them (dog, cow, coyote, human). The boonie cap is great to keep these little worms from attaching to your skin. If you an apply a spray defense to your outfit or skin even better. Total flashbacks for me. Great content, keep it up folks.

GARLIC BEST SOLUTION. I was Mosquito Bait. I started eating lots of Garlic. I now pickle garlic in sweet pickle juice and add at least 50% more Vinegar. I can eat a whole garlic bulb in 1 sitting. I have never been bitten by anything since. When the Garlic is pickled, your breath doesn't reek of garlic. Others don't notice either. I also have heart conditions. Eating so much garlic has helped with heart issues significantly.

One ancient piece of clothing will help a lot. Leg wrappings. Used with some regularly, from ancient times, up until WW1. Not only does it keep bugs away from your legs they will also protect your pants from mud and damage. Easy to dry and clean at the end of the day.

I like also using peppermint & lavender oil on exposed areas. Also on a scorching hot day, you can rub a few drops of peppermint oil on the back of your neck, it gives you the sensation of walking into a freezer !

Darn good advice given, and I like the economy angle of making your own in a higher concentration. Ticks crawl up and jump down; they don't crawl downward by their nature, and that's why pants into boots and tucked-in shirts works so well. If you sealed up backwards you'd get ticks finding their way in. Bring the permethrin with you when you camp and spray the perimeter of your ground cloth or sleeping area for a second line of defense.

In minnesota we now have powassan virus. Neighbor girl got it from a tick during a picnic by Longville. Was hospitalized in a coma for three months and recovered. There is no treatment, and once they bite you, you've got it.

8 yrs ago. Applegate Reservoir. The one day I didn’t spray my cuffs. Only went off the trail a couple of feet to find my first true morel mushroom. Big mistake! Ended up with both Lyme and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever. My doctor only had me test it once for Lyme and it came back negative. So I was still having symptoms. Dockter didn’t want to hear about it. So I knew I still had something to do with a tick. I lived with it for 3 1/2 years and almost died from complications. It really messed my heart up and definitely cross the brain barrier. I also ended up with a side disease, called Morgellons and had to figure out how to treat it myself. My present day doctor says I probably saved my own life By keeping it under control with potassium iodide. I’m not telling anyone to take that it just worked for me. I still have many problems stemming from that tick bite 😅. Don’t be stupid like me. You may pay for the rest of your life!

As a tree service worker I spend many hours felling trees, bucking/splitting wood, etc. These tips will be very helpful, time to go buy some hightop steel toed boots. Thank you sir!

I keep a dog flea and Tic collar on my boot outta sight works like a champ for tics, Chiggers. Even mosquitoes. 10yrs No Bites.

Garlic supplements work for myself and all of my horseback trailriding friends. Just the plain old garlic supplements at Walmart, 4 of them a day, no tick bite in over 20 years. And we ride through the entire spring and summer season. My horses get sprayed with Permethrin fly spray that kills ticks as well. The garlic works fantastic!!

You can also spray diluted pinesol on your pants up to your knee to keep the ticks off. It works great for the ticks

I just put Vcks vapo rub on my lower legs & around my neck. Bugs hate the smell & they can't get through the jell. Skeeters avoid it as well.

9 oz water + 1 oz 10% permethrin. Another difference between Sawyer's and most feed store preparations is the carrier -- most use oil and smell like kerosene. All water borne means no smell -- especially good when deer hunting. There are a couple brands that are water borne. I have watched ticks crawling on my permetherin treated trousers, going slower and slower and finally stopping altogether. Doing what you're being told here is spot on -- I've gone brush busting five days in September and gotten zero ticks or chiggers. The first time I tell you it was stunning.

You are SO right about permethrin. I had an occasion a few years ago to go into a tick infested area, but before I did I treated my clothes with Sawyer's permethrin and let them dry, just like you said. Others got ticks all over, but I didn't have a single bug on me. It works!

Lyme is worse. Destroyed my life. Thank you for educating people on safety 🙏

I love trout fishing, but Lyme disease has gotten so prevalent that I gave it up. Years ago we didn’t give it a thought. Now days you need to be cautious in your back yard.