Anti-Insect

	Drummer Dave wrote:
	There is another plant that you can use as well when you smash it all up & squeeze out the juice. Be danged if i can remember. I'll edit this when i think of it.

Somebody find an outdoor life magazine that other plant is in this months issue. Cool

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	Drummer Dave wrote:
	There is another plant that you can use as well when you smash it all up & squeeze out the juice. Be danged if i can remember. I'll edit this when i think of it.

> FOUND IT !!! Surprised

The plant is Yarrow Cool

you take several pieces, smash them, rub them in your hand & wipe them on your skin Cool

But was reading that pregnant woman should " not ! " do this.

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Don't eucalyptus leaves work, too? Surprised

If you're in Australia, anyway. Laughing

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^ Sweetfern I think, which isn't a fern at all...smells good though 8

EDIT: A lot of responses while I typed this...Hah! Yarrow shouldn't be a problem unless you take it internally when pregnant. Compounds tend to be weakly, if at all absorbed through regular skin. Yarrow tea helps fever (nasty awful tasting stuff though) and a compound in the leaves causes blood to clot when directly exposed. Crush clean leaves and apply to a bleeding wound to help stop bleeding. It's called soldier's woundwort for a reason.

Eucalyptus's smell may not hang around long enough to be useful. I wouldn't know...New Jersey isn't exactly eucalyptus country.

Well, after you've been bitten, go find plantain (plantago, not the banana-ish things) or jewelweed.

back when i was a teenager we went on a fishing trip about two hour north of thompson manitoba the locals used these mesh jackets that were soaked overnight in an insect repellant it kinda stunk but there were so many mosquitos and horseflies that you had to wear one when you were near the river the fishing was amazing and it only got dark for three or four hours a night any way they might make a version of the jacket know that is scentless

^Oh yeah, I almost forgot, you can buy t-shirts that have insect repellant built into them. Very Happy

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YOu can use mud, and smoke as a deterant, as bug spray. You can treat it with jewel weed, and a nice home remidy to releive pain and itchyness from a bug bite is to mix a little water and some baking soda, then smear it on the bite, it knocks the itch off right away, so does mud. Mud works on nettles also.

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-Idleness brings want
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It is best to prepare for the days of necessity

-Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder's eye on the Last Day.

on mosquito bites I use my own spit it works great. Very Happy

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Spit on mosquito bites?! Confused

Huh...who'd a thunk it? Surprised

I'll have to try that. Very Happy

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Black Walnut is another one, I believe you steep the leaves in boiling water and once it cools you smear it on your skin, the tannins I think are what make it repel bugs, smells god awful though Laughing

from experience.

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Just got some new bug spray today, I didn't have it on when I went to the timber today and I got a tick on my back Sad

lucky he didn't bite me!

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-Thou may'st break, but shalt not bend me.

-Idleness brings want
To work today is to eat tomorrow
It is best to prepare for the days of necessity

-Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder's eye on the Last Day.

The ticks are vicious around here. Shocked

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Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. - Prov. 27:17

I got a tick on my lag, on Saturday. Man, I hate those things! Mad

eric

I had pleasure killing that tick!!!

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-Thou may'st break, but shalt not bend me.

-Idleness brings want
To work today is to eat tomorrow
It is best to prepare for the days of necessity

-Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder's eye on the Last Day.