Please register or login . The new dope on safer DEET-based bug repellents and natural formulas that actually work. I'd stack 'em up and light 'em. The smoke drifting through the house was the only thing that kept the mosquitoes down. Happily, backpackers today need not rely on burning pyres of poop to ward off the needle-snouted hordes.
Insect repellents are readily available.
Which leaves you, the buyer, in a cloud of confusion as murky as anything you'd find downwind of those smoldering cow pies. Some answers are emerging, based on a groundbreaking 1998 survey of research relating to DEET and plant-derived insect repellents. In the months since, he has turned an ear to new products and product claims, and what he and other researchers have learned just might make this coming bug season as pestless as a backcountry traveler could hope for. Click here to find out how. Copyright Rodale, Inc. 2001.