No see ums
Just booked a trip to ocracoke N.P. I have visited the island in the past and never had a problem with them. But the campground reviews say they are bad in the area. Any suggestion for repellent for t...
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Guy Roan wrote:
Snowbirder here for the past fifteen years in the Florida Keys and the Everglades, where we live with No-see-ums.
A Thermacell is the absolute best thing you can use.
You can get them in Lowes, HomeDepot, Wally World or Bass Pro Shops.
We can sit around the picnic table all evening as long as we have that going.
Guy
A poster on this board that we met in person down in the Keys once also swore by the Thermacell, so we bought one. I know those things (and other powerful insecticides) definitely do work, but the smell literally made my gums start to ache. I started feeling congestion in the sinuses, headache, and tightness in my chest. So I wonder if they might be a little too effective against other species, too.
