Re: [Paddlewise] Illusory and Delusory and gnats

From: <dmccarty_at_us.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:32:07 -0400
|The bug veil does not work as well as another brand ( don't know the name)
|that has a 1/4 inch  mesh between you and the screen, this keeps the
screen
|from contacting your skin and the little buggers being able to bite you
|thru it.
Grrrrrrrr.  I can't remember the name of the mesh product either.  I can
find out if anyone wants to know.  Many hunters in Florida are using this
stuff.  Its a mesh, UNDER the screen.  Comes in squeeter and noseeum
screen.  Noseeum screen is smaller the squeeter which might make it a bit
hotter.  As you said, the mesh keeps the bugs from biting you since it
keeps the screen off of your skin.  The product has gloves, shirts and
trousers.  The shirt has a built in hood.

I'm hoping to get a set for my birthday.  My father has a set and swears by
it.  One of its advantages is that  you can wear shorts and t-shirts under
this stuff so you are not as hot.  And you obviously don't have to lather
on the chemicals.  I've been in places in Florida where the squeeters where
so bad that most bug spray just did not work.  The stuff that did would
only work for an hour or so and you had to reapply.  BTW, the stuff that
did work was left over from a construction site at Turkey Point.  The Nuke
Plant just south of Miami......  I don't know if it was the DEET
percentange or something else....  We did NOT glow in the dark as far as we
could tell!  8-)

Hope this helps....
Dan McCarty



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