Mosquitoes, and maybe some of these other critters, are attracted by heat. Dark things might be hotter. Richard Frost Bob Denton wrote: > I don't own a dark kayak, all mine are yellow or white, but I did notice > when I camped in the Everglades a couple of years ago towards the end of the > season, when the deer flies started to become a problem, they would go after > dark objects, especially the tires of my van. *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Thu Jul 13 2000 - 23:26:49 PDT
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