On 2014-09-05 20:34:04 +0000, David Hill said:

On 05/09/2014 18:34, Sacha wrote:
On 2014-09-04 18:06:12 +0000, Martin said:

On Thu, 04 Sep 2014 15:41:52 +0100, Jeff Layman

wrote:

On 04/09/2014 09:20, Martin wrote:

I use DEET on my clothes not on my skin. Dutch tests resulted in
recommendations
of repellents that contained at least 50% DEET.

Yes, it works, but the biggest problem with DEET is that it is a pretty
good solvent for some plastics.

I dripped some on a phone and it left a crater in the surface.

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And we're supposed to put this stuff on our bodies?!

That's why it works.
The bugs have more sense than to come into contact with it.
It's their way to take over the world.
They just Buzz mankind enough so that everyone slaps so much of the
stuff on that they dissolve.

There's a whiff of truth in this... ;-)

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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
www.helpforheroes.org.uk

On 2014-09-07 08:14:14 +0000, Martin said:

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DEET is not to be sniffed at, unless you have a nose for it.

I think the last time I used anything containning DEET was when I
bought some stuff called Off! in Turkey. It certainly worked but I
thought it was a bit scary! Apparently, it now repels mosquitoes
carrying West Nile virus...
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Sacha
www.hillhousenursery.com
South Devon
www.helpforheroes.org.uk