http://www.trailerlife.com/rv-gear/gear/bug-off/?utm_source=exacttarget&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TLN19119_11172017Saw these and got me to thinking. Anyone know for sure whether they work on mossies and no see ums. Wishful thinking i'm sureI tried something similar years ago. battery powered. Not impressed.

Themacell used in Alaska. First one a gift from camper we met north of Fairbanks. We were existing outside in screened tent. They were enjoying the outside. When we asked how they managed she said thermal cell. We've since gifted to family and told others. We use in our gazebo at home and it's not screened.

We've had a Thermacell for many years. It works great as long as there isn't stiff breeze. Absolutely worth having!

We have the OFF power pad lanterns.They use the same active ingredient, but the heat source is a candle, rather than a butane cylinder. They work very well. We have 2 in the camper and 2 in the trailer as they are the things that get missed moving from one to the other, and we don't like to be without them.They are good for 4 hours and then the candle is done.Brian

My son is a Park Ranger at a Florida State Park. The parks are sometimes given products to be tried out. We were introduced to the thermocell in this manner, also to NoNatz, a natural product with no chemicals. We also use net jackets with hoods, and yes we do use products with 100% Deet PRN. He has a combination of products that he likes; whatever works. lizzie

Members of the 24th Infantry Division used to buy Avon Skin-So-Soft by the gallon to fend off the no-see-ums (sand fleas) in Georgia in the field. Of course, it was rather humorous to observe a heavy mechanized infantry division head out on maneuvers smelling like a French bordello. The stuff worked, though...Rob

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dakonthemountai
Explorer
Nov 22, 2017
Second Chance wrote:
Members of the 24th Infantry Division used to buy Avon Skin-So-Soft by the gallon to fend off the no-see-ums (sand fleas) in Georgia in the field. Of course, it was rather humorous to observe a heavy mechanized infantry division head out on maneuvers smelling like a French bordello. The stuff worked, though...

Rob

I've been using this with 50% dilution with water for years at home (in the mountains) and camping to ward off mosquitoes. by diluting it it's not quite as odoriferous!

Dak
Smitty77
Explorer
Nov 24, 2017
ScottG wrote:
We've had a Thermacell for many years. It works great as long as there isn't stiff breeze.
Absolutely worth having!

Concur. We have the clip on belt units, as well as two or three of the lantern models we spread around the outside patio area.

If in a place long enough, we also set up a Coleman Clamshell shelter, with all sides screened mesh. Since the DW is not quite as at risk as I am to the blood sucking mosquitoes - she'll go out and set the Thermacell Lantern to work about 15 minutes before we go out to sit in the shelter. (This was great on our 2015 Retirement Victory Tour to Alaska, we'd sit out with the late night sunshine and just take in the beauty around us:)!)

And, in many areas, Repel Deet 100 - is still required to protect me...

(I can be walking with a group, and no one else will be bothered. But I'm in the process of being eaten alive... They really seem to like me. (Oddly, I never had that problem with dating - it was like I was wearing a cologne that was a deterrent:)!).

Best to all, travel safe, and may the blood suckers survive well (BUT NOT ON ME!),
Smitty

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