Music Howdy. Bosses away and Adelaide at the moment visiting the Grand Kits. So, got a little bit of spare time up the sleeve. So I thought I'd do a series of videos on lighting insects and how we deal with them. At the moment we're in Lee Point and this particular spot has a double whammy issue because we've got mosquitoes and samplies. So anyway, this will be the first instalment and I hope it's informative for you. The first one will be what I'll loosely call the chemical repellents and ultimately there is only two choices which is basically you off. And then there's your deep types. So there are things like bush mounds, the appetizers that they use deep. And then there are the other repellents that basically use deep, but don't appetise it. We've got some mangroves out the back. If the wind blows from the east we have more trouble with the midges. Certain phenomena increases their activity, high tides. And there's a department health website up here that will give you the worst times to look out for midges. And it's around the foremoon or the high tide. So anyway, we're looking at the chemical repellents. As I said, there are basically two types. So this is the bush mounds, this is deep, this is a spray one, you rub it on. Most of these have an alcohol smell. So I think what they are is a dissolved oil in alcohol and then that alcohol evaporates off on your left with the actual repellent. I would quite like this one. I find this one works very well with both midges and mosquitoes. If you have a version to deep then you're probably not going to like it. If you're price conscious you can get the woolly version. This is radius, this is their brand name. And if you read the chemical composition it's fundamentally deep. There are in the bush mounds there are other chemicals in there. I'm not sure what the difference would be. And I find this slightly better than the radius. Again with most of the sprays just spray it on. I tend to rub it in. It's very very similar smell. It smells like one of the other brands, Eregard which I don't have. And once the alcohol evaporates away you're left with sort of like an old film but it's not too bad. The other one is rid. Now this should actually be this perfectly colour but the packaging doesn't last particularly long. For the ridden in the can very much the same as the bush mounds and the radius. Very similar sort of a smell and very similar feel on your skin. So the radius, the rid and the bush mounds I find generally alright. You can feel it on the skin if you went to bed with it on you would notice that at a pinch you would go to bed with this on. But most times you would prefer not to. The rid roll I'm not really interested in. So once you're rubbed in and almost disappears completely. It has no smell at all and that on your skin afterwards feels fine. And I would have no issue with going to bed with that. Whereas these other ones you go to bed and you feel like it's sticking to us about it. So you would prefer not to. The other one that you've got is off. This has a different chemical in it. It's called Picardin. It's been a bit of research about how well it works with mosquitoes. We generally find that it hasn't last that long and particularly with midgis and samflies. It just doesn't stack up compared to the big base products. The spray on one, when I put this one on, it's very wellie. So the pump spray version seems to be thicker. Absolutely no smell which is a good thing. You do, you are left with a bit of an oily sensation. The spray. This one's gonna measure run out. You spray that on. Again, what with most of these aerosols is an alcohol smell. But then that goes away. And you're left with almost no smell at all. So the interesting thing is the can version is not as thick and oily as the pump spray version. So I don't know why. So if you were to ask me what my preference out of all of these were, I would point you in the direction of the red roll. It works particularly well. It works. These two together work pretty much the same. I'm gonna mosey flying around me at the moment. And he's not landing on me. These two work pretty much the same. They'll keep the samflies or midgis off here as well as keeping the mosquitoes away. This particular version has no smell. And when you rub it on, it doesn't leave that oily sensation on your skin. So that would be my preference. So thank you for watching the first installment. I'll look at making another couple of videos. And I'll talk about non-chemical repellents. And then in another video I'll talk about some of the tactics we use other than putting things on your skin to keep the biting insects away.