This Is How Loggers Keep Mosquitos From Eating Them Alive
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- Here is a simple logger trick to help repel mosquitos. I learned this as a young kid from my Dad while on his logging jobs. While walking through the woods, this simple technique helps get mosquitos to go away. It can be an alternative to mosquito repellant if mosquitos aren't too severe. If you have super mosquitoes where you are, it may not work as well. I don't know, I have only used it here where we have normal mosquitos.
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In Florida I once saw 2 mosquitos dragging a small child towards the woods. When they got to the edge, the first on said,"If we drag him in the woods the big ones will just take him away from us."
I gotta remember THIS One--- funny
I saw one the other day that had 2 woodticks on it....
I believe it. Had an uncle say he got his four wheeler stuck in the woods, two mosquitoes came along and picked him and the four wheeler up out of the mud. He was like 300lb dude!!!
You’ve solved Missing 411. It wasn’t the aliens or Bigfoot after all ! 🛸
there's a movie called "the forbidden zone" with herve villechaise (tattoo from fantasy island)
they uuh throw people into a pit. your analogies will never be the same.
i protected myself from mosquitos for almost 2-1/2 minutes by staying inside and watching this.. smh
Lucky. A skeeter a moment ago, flew in front of my monitor.
YEA HE WSS DOING WELL TILL HE STARTED TALKING STUPID , IM GONNA WATCH TOM AND JERRY
Best insect repellent in the wild is smoke. Camping, hunting or whatever. build a small fire and walk through the smoke. All insects are repelled by instinct because they fear forest fires. Been doing for over 30 years now and always works for me and my friends.
Best insect repellent is the cold. I haven't seen a mosquito all winter
When youre in the smoke, yes.
Did that one time camping.
It only worked while I was actively in the smoke. Not sure if it was the MN skeets or what, but they were relentless.
Then they passed the baton to the friggin deer flies
a thick wool sweater - their needles can reach through it. Pretty funny actually.
There’s a reason woodland creatures of all types stay out of the smoke… says your lungs.
Self-flagellation is the term you were looking for....🤣🤣🤠
You beat me to it .......... nice to know I am not the only one with a warped sense of humor on here
you do That, EVERY Time you go into the bush on buggy days, masochist
you gotta love discomfort
@@finniganshomestead2956You are not alone 😉
Become a Shia Muslim. They are taught to do this from a very young age.
@geezerindawoods
Oh no you DIDN'T! 😉
Old logger's trick from Central PA:
Eat ONE match head a day for 3 days.
The sulfur will come out in your sweat.
No fleas, lice, mosquitoes, or ticks.
Technically no women neither (at least so far).
that's pritty cool
The same is supposed to work if you eat a lot of garlic or take enteric garlic supplements regularly.
@@mtnbiker14 It doesn't work as well.
And you can still pick up fleas.
@@mtnbiker14 '"Garlic is a classic," said Joe Conlon, technical advisor for the American Mosquito Control Association. Some think that eating garlic could keep mosquitoes away, but he said studies have not shown that ingesting garlic reduces bug bites.
"As in most myths though, there is an element of truth in them," he said. "If you take garlic and squeeze it on your skin, that portion of your skin will be repellent to mosquitoes for about 20-40 minutes."'
@@mtnbiker14 Make Homemade Mosquito Repellent with Essential Oils.
Mosquitos - citronella, lemon eucalyptus, peppermint, lemon, eucalyptus, catnip, basil, clove, thyme, lemongrass, geranium, lavender
A good cigar keeps them away from me. They hate the smoke. They are unhappy, I am happy, all is well.
My father was that way as well. The stank coming from his cheap stogies did the trick every time.
Tried that once
Puked from over inhalation while working
Chain saw exhaust will keep them away too. Keep that saw humming!
@@davidlang4442that does the trick
Pack of backwoods cigars is necessary field gear
An old time lumberjack told me they would add eucalyptus oil to their chain saw gas to repel mosquitos.
To the gas or to the bar oil. Because one of those two things sounds plausible and one sounds like engine repair
@@GeneralKitten Chainsaw fuel is a mix of oil & gas (1:40 +/- ) so OP sounds right especially with combustion (exhaust/smoke).
I could see it, old 2strokes wouldn't care much about what ya put in them. I started mine by kicking it over without a carb and just some electrical cleaner in the crank after replacing a sensor.
Old 2strokes use magnetic induction coil
@@stripedassape8148 well yeah, it's bolted onto the crank. I was just surprised it ran on residual flammable vapor. It wasn't like I'm spraying it in the intake, I was cleaning off the neutral sensor and just from what was in the crank/atmosphere while I was kicking the engine over lit it off.
Been doing this for years. It's also good to have someone on your crew that tastes better.
I am that person. on the bright side, I am delicious.
When I logged I didn't find the mosquitos as annoying as the clouds of deer flies.
yes--- Deer flies & Black flies, *_they'll take a Chunk out of you_*
The occasional horse fly.
Deer flies usually go for the highest point. You can stick a leafy twig in your hat that reaches a foot over your head and it helps a lot. We would also put a small branch on our horse's bridles for the same reason.
@@tinknal6449Right on. I was going to mention this. I stick a couple of small leafy branches in my hat and the motion of those as I walk keep the flies from tearing meat off me.
thank God i never heard such demonic variations of flies in my area, just insane amount of mosquitos
Many moons ago I was a land surveyor. One summer I worked in a swampy forest. Summer job, I was still a student. Hot and humid summer... That surveying equipment was heavy and most importantly expensive. We had to carry it, both hands loaded, ground soft enough that you will sink in if you stop for a second, no place to put equipment on the ground (did I say it was expensive) and mosquitoes having a party. I remember seeing them hanging on my arms, fat and heavy from my blood, but still not letting go. Then they would fall off and die in the mud 'cause they couldn't fly anymore. At the time I thought I'd rather have a shark eat me than those little devils.
Got the crap beat outta me by a gang of them in Fairbanks. Took my blood AND my wallet.
Were those the two-legged type?
😂
They are huge and mean in Alaska, oddly the Alaskans don't use repellant, I guess the skeeters get their fill from the tourists.
@@robertpeters41Thats funny , growing up in and arou d Fairbanks playing outdoors i never used repellent, never really thought about it till now . We did get ate up sometimes but not bad most of the time .
I’m taking back my thumbs up if it doesn’t work next time I go out in the woods
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It works
If it doesn't work.. try to center the swish instead of to the left and right.
Fringed Native American clothing makes even more sense in this context. Now I'm mentally designing mosquito-repellant clothing.
Good point! What this guy says immediately made me think of how horses do that with their tails...
@@skylark4901 Yes, but it doesn't help if you need both hands while you're working.
@DoloresJNurss - Mosquitos are attracted to shades of blue,
but turned off by yellows/tan/beige/khaki --- I notice a substantial difference
That's the same thinking behind those Australian hats that have corks hanging from the brim.
Fringe is for drying the item not bug repellent
My Father taught me this over 40 years ago and called it a "cow's tail". I've taught it to my kids and many friends over the years, it works great!😊
In Maine the mosquitoes are so big, even they have tick problems...
In Minnesota, they wear combat boots
:))))))
When our place burned up in a wildfire 16 years ago we camped out in a lower meadow area that didn't burn. The neighbor didn't have time to trailer up his horses so he just opened his corral and swatted them on the butt and we ended up sharing the meadow. It was the end of may and the rye grass was just making seed and there's a sizable pond so plenty of water. They were pretty good about sharing the space although they would get tangled up in ropes we tried making canopies when they raided the camp spot for compost such as half eaten apple or too soft carrots. Unfortunately they brought their horse flies with them and they were brutal. Always finding the spot on your back that you couldn't swat and bitting really hard. One day after a especially bad bite i looked over at the horses and saw how they defended themselves from vicious flies. They were standing parallel to one another busy chompin away with their heads almost under the other horses tail and each horse was sweeping the other with their tails. There was some unprotected skin but their skin is much thicker and horse being bit could usually get it the path of it's partners tail. Impressed me. As girlfriend and i howled in pain trying to swat our own
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"Swish" is on the forehand , "swoosh" is on the backhand...
I don't think real loggers are going to be doing any swishing or swooshing.
@@rickoshay6554 I've heard lumberjacks are fond of wearing women's clothing and having buttered scones for tea.
@@skaldlouiscyphre2453
Well, I do recall Monty Python's Lumberjack Song but I always thought they were singing about Canadian Lumberjacks. And we all know about Canadians.
(Do you know the story about the Newfie bragging in the bar about how he could down a fifth of whiskey in one gulp, wrestle a grizzly bear and make love to an eskimo woman all in one night?)
Swish swoosh I was taking a bath long about a Saturday night 😅
I’m a logger. It’s called deet and permethrin.
Permetherin treating my outdoor clothing has saved my ass MANY - MANY times over the years.....that and a pocket full of head nets - which I HATE wearing but am happy to have when the bugs get bad.....oh, you need a pocket full of the head nets to give to the other guys with you so they dont knock you off to get yours....lol
Easiest way to treat clothes a couple days before you are going to need then....is to mix up a couple gallons in jugs and put your clothes in a big black HD trash bag and dump the pre-mixed permetherin in....I have always used at least 2% solution....usually more... and squish the clothes around real good and let them soak at least overnight(longer is better) in a cool, dark spot....then just take them out and hang them up IN THE SHADE!!! to dry........UV and heat are what kills the permetherin protection fastest....you can also make spray bottles and spray tents and sleeping bags and anything fabric you will be using outdoors.
Permetherin is not toxic to dogs but is like nerve gas to cats and fish when wet!!! so DO NOT MIX OR APPLY WHEN FISH OR CATS ARE AROUND OR THEY WILL SUFFER HORRIBLY. This is why you should NEVER use any canine flea or tick treatment on a cat!!!!
I took a blind date to play mini golf. She was larger than me and had much more mosquitoeable surfaces. After she made a good shot she turned around and I saw her whole back was covered in mosquitoes. She said she did not feel them. I tried to brush them off and it looked like I had slashed her.The lady running the mini golf had paper towels to save us.
As they're "biting" you, they inject you with something to kill the pain, among other yucky juices. I'm thinking that biting flies do the same thing, and will fly away from a swat to find the same spot after the anti-pain stuff is working.
That story kind of reminds me of the song pinball wizard
Why would you take a blind girl to play mini golf?
@@rosswoolley2854The girl wasn't blind, just a big fat girl.
@@rosswoolley2854maybe she played a mean game....
British Royal marine commando,s drink vinegar shots for one week before deployment to a mosquito infested war zone !
My understanding is that in the old days, mosquitoes and malaria were bad among eastern Native tribes. Hence the ritual cleansing of things with tobacco or sage smoke.
It didn't work effectively when the Panama canal was being built.
Before British raised cattle malaria was endemic in the British Isles.
The Mosquitoes can work with cattle blood. Malaria could not handle cattle blood.
When all you have is primitive ritual remedies such as blowing smoke and waving branches, that is all you can do and the best you can do. Today, thanks to more modern methods, we have more effective ways to prevent these things.
I've known folk's that are known for "blowing smoke" in exaggerated fashion.... Ain't no BS.... And "Eat-More-Beef"
I live in Florida where we have normal mosquitoes (and a lot of them!!!), but 2 weeks ago my wife and I were in Alaska and I was shocked to see these mosquitoes the size of small aircraft flying around! 😱
Haha. I grew up in AK. Mosquitoe the state bird!
@@debbujol5571 😂
I sware those devils mate with skeeters from Michigan. Lol😂
I am 70, learned this from my grandfather when we walked along the creek, fishing
Ditto. Blackberry picking!
Very dangerous advice, wilson. Bad idea to go swishing through the woods. Didn't you watch "Deliverance"?
He got a purty mouth
That Bango jingle
" Do you hear banjos? RUN! "
😂🤣
Joe Biden as a child sitting on the porch?
I logged eastern Oregon in the 90s. One morning, while building cribs for barbed wire gates, the mosquitos were so bad that we were grabbing handfuls of them off of our arms and legs (yes, we were wearing denim pants and long sleeves).
We would run from one crib to the other, gathering stones as quickly as possible and tossing them into the cribs. We were turning red and black with blood and crushed mosquitos. This likely took the 2 of us 1/2 an hour. Then we proceeded up the hill a bit to the landing where I began my duties as a knot bumper. Up on the hill,the mosquitos weren't as bad-then the horse flies came. That evening, I counted 198 bites on my right arm alone. Obviously, those were just the ones I could see. Nothing in the world would have stopped those big black bloodsucking b!%@#=$ - including the copious amount of DEET we were bathed in. They even bit right through the Levi's. Good times.
I have to agree I worked out in the woods in Central and Eastern Oregon and those mosquitoes are some of the worst I've ever seen the only other place I could compare it to is the Big Cypress swamp in Florida
@chrishouseman4781 I now live in North Central Florida, and luckily, where we live, they're not horrible except when the Suwannee floods-like now. Still nothing like Eastern Oregon. We have gnats. They don't bite, but they'll drive you insane without bug spray. I haven't had the Big Cypress experience you speak of since I avoid swamps.
Jeeezus -
Try putting melaleuca oil on or Teatree oil works for both mosquitoes and deer flies.
I tried that in New Zealand for sand flies and it didn't work but I'll see if it works on mosquitoes
They see me, get all excited and say to each other "He's mosquitable!"
I had to stop reading the comments because they were making me itch like crazy.
🤣👍
Fun future fact: the Star Trek Transporter machine will be discovered by a guy researching why mosquitoes appear from and disappear to hell at 62°F.
Yeah, I am glad you mentioned the bigger mosquitoes. The skeeters in Florida would take that branch, toss it to the side and proceed to beat you with the entire tree before sucking up all of your blood.
But this is a good trick in the Northeast and such.
Thanks for this video!
I'm not doubting you about Florida skeeters. But Jersey has swamps and famously vicious mosquitos too. BTW, apparently Mr. Wilson is in the Northwest - not the Northeast.
@@ByeByeBS That was why I added "and such" there. Florida was another experience altogether. Spent over a year there and still have the scars from those mini helicopters they call mosquitoes.
Don't even get me started on the no-see-ums, either! Hate those things. They feel like heavy gauge needles piercing your flesh over and over again. Horrible little creatures. Horrible.
The fix is easy if you are home - a lot of strong fans circulating air pretty much blows them away as they aren't strong flyers.
I'll have to visit again, because my experience with Florida skeets vs northern skeets was the FL had more constant smaller ones, but MN had bigger ones that condensed all their time into the 1.3 weeks of wet summer (joking on the timeframe, but even cramming into 3 months seemed to give them a ridiculous sense of urgency)
@@projectisaac The smaller ones on Florida are the no-see-ums. The skeeters were huge.
I spent a year and a half in Florida in PSL, Vero, Ft Pierce, West Palm, Palm Bay, etc. The skeeters were huge but very responsive to DEET. The no-see-ums didn't care what I used. Them suckers really know how to cause lasting pain.
@@JimJimmington-e8ibeen to both Florida and Alaska and there is no comparison. The Alaska ones are monsters and they are everywhere. I was completely shocked when I was doin a contract there and started seeing all of the stores putting up end caps with every kind of bug repellent made at the beginning of April. I didn’t realize Alaska had such terrible mosquitoes and had to ask some of my coworkers what was with all of the bug spray. The Florida ones are no worse than the ones found around Missouri where I live. But we do have those damn no see ums which I hate worse than the mosquitoes. Those little buggers chew me up all summer long and I have to actually take Benadryl sometimes. They say they don’t have anything that would cause an allergic reaction, but I break out in a rash and my heart starts to race when I get bitten a lot.
Great idea. I didn’t know old loggers did it. We do It here in the Fairbanks area of Alaska… it works most of the time. You have to swish a bit more often. There are times and areas in Alaska where there are so many that they can carpet any exposed skin. So not even a branch in both hands is enough.
Get some coconut oil and rub it on the exposed parts of your skin. Mosquitoes absolute hate the caprylic acid in coconut oil.
I have taken my hand moisturized with coconut oil and put it near a swarm of mosquitoes, they actually moved away!
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I have a lightweight hat with a bug net mounted on the brim. Thin enough to fit under a hard hat, too. Looks a little ridiculous, but it works like a charm. Couple of bucks on Ali express.
"Thanks for the tip". Says the horse. 😄
This city slicker has simply adopted the habit of tucking some fresh dryer sheets into his belt or hanging out of a shirt pocket. The scent which is intended to perfume your clothes in the dryer also interferes with the mosquito's ability to detect the CO2 from your breath (which is what attracts them to begin with). I've used it in the tropics of Hawai'i, and the woods and gardens of the US South. =^[.]^=
I tried camping just below Crater Lake a few years back. I’ve seen mosquitos in my life, from Florida to Vietnam, but I’ve never run into anything like what’s in those woods near Crater Lake!
There is always that guy that absolutely covers himself in deet head to toe then sprays a cloud in front of him and walks through it with his eyes and mouth closed. When he opens his truck door, bottles of deet insect repellent fall out.
The last thing you do in the shower is rinse off the soap. If you skip that and leave a little bit on you, poof! They will land, but won't poke. Not even once. That worked for me in Southern New England. I live in the desert now. Our mosquito season is only a few weeks long. Out here they're unbelievably aggressive. They fly into your nose and mouth like kamikaze planes. And they're a but bigger.
I should add, was using a men's body soap. Brands don't matter too much. Most of what I used was by dove. The green colored in the gray bottle. I think axe? Worked as well.
Just leave the slightest bit on you. Not so much that if your sweat gets into your eyes, you get all burned up. Between fighting fires in the woods and logging, I definitely was happy that it worked for me. It also kept most of the ticks away.
Although I'm on medication so maybe that repeled the tics?
Tics are horrible.
If you tuck your shirt in. And wear loose long sleeve shirts with tight cuffs, you'll be pretty safe. I grew up in the woods. And rarely got ticks on me. In fact I'm wondering why I rarely ever got tics on me? I spent a couple months doing maple syrup and working on my family's property this spring. And never even saw one on me. Yet several of my friends and family who spend way less time, outside probably a 16th of me, had all seen or got them. Meanwhile I was laying in the leaves under machinery for days on end and clearing storm damage every day.
I have lived in Alaska for 25 years but grew up out in the woods of southern Oregon. I remember doing fence work up in the mountains in early June late May the mosquitoes were ferocious…
Nice trick. I even would try it myself, if I'd live in a different country. In here the mosquito clouds are so dense that you can cut them with the chainsaw. Need a powerful saw though, my mediocre Husqvarna 560 XP regularly struggles a bit pulling the chain through the cloud...
Swish: A side to side motion, as in a horse's tail.
Swoosh: A (usually) diving motion, from on high to a lower position, as in a hawk diving. Also used in basketball to discribe placing the ball into the net. ☆
"Also used in basketball to discribe (SIC) placing the ball into the net. " NOPER, that is definitely a "swish".
And a dive from a hawk is a swoop, not a swoosh. Sorry.
think once, think twice, think: never describe sounds in nazi germany.
Wax myrtle bushes have mosquito-repellent leaves. Just grab some leaves and crush them in your hands and rub around your head/shoulders/arms. I've used them my whole life, if available, and they're very effective. In GA
Rosemary, thyme & eucalyptus work, as well! I'll try carrying a eucalyptus swatter with me next time! 🌱
Cheap cigars work good too. also with noseeums
Citronella oil in the saw gas mix. 😂
@@Dangerousoldman There are no mosquitoes if there is a diesel engine idling nearby.
How about in the oiler ?
@@stevedenis8292 No, I think it needs to burn to get the effect. An old time logger told me they would put eucalyptus oil in the gas.
@@tinknal6449 Will try both see which works better just hate to mess with the ratio
@@stevedenis8292 I've always been of the opinion that a little extra oil in the mix never hurts. Mixing the 2 could have a multiplying effect as well.
Try that in Texas. Any branch you break off will have either stickers, spines or thorns, or they'll be covered with those tiny fire ants that are barely visible to the naked eye.
I was just chuckling, thinking about the mosquitoes in Alaska and then you mentioned it. Those things are relentless
They don't tell you about the mosquitoes in the tourist literature.
You create some of the best content on UA-cam.
Very informative, fun and down-to-earth helpful suggestions and advice for anyone.
You’re a very good presenter.
mmmmee-yeeahh....here in the yukon, our mosquitoes carry off small moose, bear, and large children - "swishing and swooshing" will just make 'em mad, and is best left to certain neighborhoods in San Fran. y'all better invest in high caliber ballistics if ya wanna hang out in mosquito territory up here ;)
Here in WV it’s ticks and biting flies, unfortunately it takes chemicals to keep them at bay.
I got one of those tick bites with the bullseye ten years ago and it’s been a long road coming back from that so I use the spray.
Lyme disease
They sell rechargeable mini fans that hang on your neck. They are designed to keep you cool by pointing airflow to your face, but they also work great for keeping mosquitoes away because the increased airflow from the fan makes it difficult for them fly and land on you (mosquitoes aren't good fliers, need still air).
100%
What about my entire body below my neck?
They love my legs and ankles the most.
I wear long sleeves and pants at all times when I'm in the woods and tuck my pant legs in my socks and sometimes wear a face mask. I'm more worried about wood ticks than skeeters. I also wear a mask if I'm fishing.
My dad got Lyme disease and it took them a year to diagnose it he literally called us kids up because they thought he was on his deathbed.
Well yeah that works but smoking unfiltered Lucky Strike is probably better
If everyone does this
There will be no branches left
I've tried a few things. Fresh lemon squeezed into a spray bottle with water helps to keep them off. I've heard lemongrass is the best. Tea tree oil worked surprisingly well also. Not fond of the smell but it's cheap.. they sell the oil (food grade) vitamin aisle. 10 drops in a squeeze bottle is fine. These tests I did in Fla this past month, sitting outside in the early morning and dusk for hours at a time. 👍
Everglades got some skeeters that you'll need one branch in each hand as you run sloshing through the mud screaming Why did I come here.?!
My solution is always to stay inside😊
In Clute Texas (south of Houston) they have an annual mosquito festival. Plenty of adult beverages and women.
Good place to get poked
I prefer to be the one doing the poking lol.😂
In the old, old days, the woodsmen, hunters, and trappers would completely cover themselves in a thick layer of mud.
I'd bet they probably swished themselves with small pine branches like this, too.
@@mechez774 It also keeps you warm.
Hmm. Interesting. Here in the UK, very little fir about. Few mosquitos usually. Jump about a bit and they're no bother usually. Plenty of ticks (increasing as deer populations are crazy and getting worse). Midges in Scotland, which are 'magical' - bad magic.
Swoosh comes on Nike trainers (never had any) or with Listerine mouthwash (never used it). Might've been 'sloosh' with Listerine. 'Swish' (archaic but current with my parents when I was a kid) means 'posh', smart-looking, up-market. 'Swish designer trainers'..... Not that anybody wore trainers in the early '70s or could afford them with the 3 day week and such.... Your lot were putting men on the moon, our lot were having issues keeping the volts up at 240, so the black and white telly pictures got squashed down so all the cowboys had squashed hats and short legs. And the wagon wheels all went backwards, but they did that anyway.
"Swish." (Swoosh has been monetized and likely copyrighted.)
"Mosquito-able," I like that too.
Bubbles - "Julian is drunk on swish, dancing around with an old dirty dog...”
@@Blas4ublasphemylittle Britain?
Its a technical term!
I am sadly all too familiar with super mosquitoes (Delmarva Peninsula). They start attacking the truck windows as soon as it comes to a stop. Thermacell is the only thing that works.
Yellow cedar saw dust is a natural mosquito repellent. You will find that when you are working with it that you are mosquito free. There was an outfit that was extracting the oil and selling it commercially but doesn’t seem to have succeeded.
Cedar oil is still sold. Expensive, but as noted, works.
Thanks.
Holding a small branch with leaves above your head helps with deer flies. About the same size he has in the video. No idea why it works but it does where I'm at.
We used to chew the tips of the needles.
Cigar works too.
I'll tell ya, I do not smoke. But if it helped keep (wicked) clouds of bugs away I could start
That's laughable I've worked in areas where the mosquitoes were so bad you would have to have a branch in both hands and be swooshing constantly and it still wouldn't be enough😅
So you's able to fly with those branches? Interesting...lol
@@cchgn I only wish I was brush piling in Central Oregon and those mosquitoes laughed at those branches
A swish is one way and a swoosh is the other. A swat is a swish or a swoosh interrupted by a splat, probably.
Having recently moved from northern to southern Norway I sometimes catch myself getting annoyed by *a* mosquito. Ok, they're a different, smaller and more intense type here, but I have to remind myself that when stealthily hunting or fishing back North I used to endure having at least two dozen landed on my head at any one time. If one comes for your nostril, you blow it away, and it goes around and reenters its approach from 6 feet away so you can watch it for 30 seconds before it reaches your nostril again.
Gnats are completely different, they can't be dissuaded and follow no logic, probably because they can't fit any in their microscopic heads. I hate Gnats.
But I have never had a need to wave a twig around, I have yet to meet a mosquito I can't walk away from. Some places are riddled with juicy spiders in webs between trees, I may wave a twig at those. And at Polar Bears if I see any.
They would just land on your hand while you swoosh
I will try the swish/swoosh instead of the swat but first I will swhake (I just made that one up) it out for ticks.🙂
I've been able to control large swarms of mosquitoes for years and keeping them off me by living in the desert.....
Whenever I have to fix a bicycle flat on the woodlands trail I'll keep that in mind. Thanks.
North side of Atigun, to the coast, in the Tundra, is the worst spot in Alaska. 100% deet doesn't work and it melts plastic.
Deet does work there. Yes, 30% and above messes plastic and paint..
Off. Logging since 1983 only missed one day because of bugs that was in Bly Oregon it was bad
We used to have a very effective fly dope called "Old Woodsmans", here in Maine. Made with pine tar. Stunk like hell, but it worked.
But he didn't tell us that the old logger learned that from his horse.
Art from Ohio
PS: I am an old logger.
Hi Art
From the uk
@@spencerh2860 Hello, what can I do for you?
im just teh guy him say
sainchaw chainsaw
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Was in Prince Edward Island the wind was so strong blowing old style lawn chairs off the deck were made out of steel. The mosquitoes were still biting. I think they’re on steroids.
The old horse tail trick. Doesn't work much but gives you a sense your doing something about it while your being eaten alive out there. Put on the old" Woodsman Fly Dope". Works good but stinks to heaven.
Can you honestly recommend this stuff, or is it just mildly effective? Personally I am sweet meat to mosquitoes in particular, and have had malaria twice thanks to it. They bite right through army socks and canvas clothing. I ask for an honest feedback session because I am prepared to make my own at considerable expense. They list the ingredients on the website, so I am grateful for that.
@@LitoGeorge my friend from Australia says to eat veggimite or take a lot of b vitamins. Makes your blood taste bad.
@@traildriving interesting! I used to eat a lot of Bovril (same as veggemite), but that did nothing for me. I am sweet meat no matter what I eat. Sigh.
I’ll try it… now what to do about ticks & my mother in law? 😂
We camped by the Gulf in Texas.Padre Island area. And YES, we were crazy for doing it. Anyway, you could NOT leave the tent after dusk. We literally laid in the tent and could hear the mosquitos bashing into the tent trying to get in to get us. They could probably smell our blood through the tent. It was the most unbelievable thing I had ever experienced. I'm used to seeing mosquitos but not hearing them trying to break in.
Or you could change your blood type. They seem to go for type O.
I'm O+. I could go to Antarctica, in Winter, and Still get bitten. Pathetic...
@@fjb4932 Same, 0- here, I swear I go out onto the porch for 30 seconds and I'll have a bite
"I'm told" mosquitos orient by carbon dioxide in the exhale so quitting breathing or at least the exhale phase of the process is like camo and mosquitos won't know where you are.
Ya, that would work as long as you're swinging that branch. Soon as you stop .....they will eat your azz.
Horse Flys worse.they take a chunk out of you
Alaska is no joke with the mosquitos. At Wonder Lake my friend and I found ourselves covered head to toe to the point we could not see the skin on our arms. It was so awful, especially when the hikers covered in bug netting walked by laughing at us.
I live in Jersey, one swish and I am covered in ticks and chiggers. Honestly not sure which is worse 😪
Mosquitoes here in Georgia are a little more persistent.
One is more Gayer than the other , you decide which is which
Avon Skin So Soft
Great stuff
I saw something like this on the movie 10 commandments 55 years ago. I think Yul Brynner must have known your Dad. Might work great for mosquitoes, but after dealing with black flies for 3-4 weeks.....you don't even notice mosquitoes....
Yul Brenner was a Ukrainian
People do so back there when picking mushrooms n berries in the woods
Real men swoosh.
All. We've got is mountain cedar aka juniper. I've heard of crushing pine leaves up in your hand and rubbing it on skin and clothes.
that was a swish, a swoosh involves water.
Swishers and swashers everywhere, hide your mosquitable parts from May-Sept
I was in Arkansas one day my wife and me walking around. Close to woods and rice fields. Dang mosquitoes started eating me up. But none on her. Figured out. It was because she had moisturizer on called skin so soft. I've used it from that day on. Works great and chiggers don't like it either. I keep a tube in console and another in 1st aid kit.
That Avon stuff worked
If you are wearing rainbow colored briefs it’s swish ! Not a fir or spruce tree around here for 300 miles unless someone planted one in their yard ! Plenty of pine and a few cedar !
Columbia Brand OMNISHADE clothing is impervious to mosquitoes.
Found out by accident.
Great product.
The mosquito is the national bird here in New Jersey. I was fishing last week at the river and a small gang of about 4 took my fish and threw me in the river.
White vinegar sprayed directly on the skin works decent and only stinks for a few minutes. Drinking a couple teaspoons of red cider vinegar with water every day helps when it emits through the pores.
Nope. Salad dressings dont work on Canadain mosquitos 😂😂
I helped dig out for a 50 foot tramway in SE Alaska, thru the black mud and partial muskeg for base of tramway to rest on. UNBELIEVABLE the amount of no-see-ems that came out of ground. Only thing that helped was a strong wind…
You need the liquid bug repellent if your hands are too busy for the branch swish
That's what I was thinking - how do I swish with a branch while I'm felling/bucking? That is when it is the worst and very distracting to have them in your face....
I was laughing at that hack thinking that won’t do anything. Then he mentioned Alaskan super-mosquitoes. OK, he really does understand. It’s not just the size but the number of mosquitoes. I seriously don’t know how historically the Indians made it through a summer without everyone becoming anemic.
I grew up in Alaska.
My mothers told me not to kill mosquitos.
She said the rest would come scoop me up and take me to the swamp.
Suck all my blood till I was dried up.
She was right.
They almost got me back in the summer of 95.
Had to run for cover in my truck.