Insect Repellent

Basics

• Chemicals / Mixtures of them that repel insects
• Mosquitoes and Ticks are the main insects of concern due to them being major disease vectors ( Malaria , Lyme Disease , and Zika Virus etc in the effected regions
• This page will go over personal sprays, applications to Mosquito Netting and so on, broad area pesticides are another category and short of as needed in an Integrated Pest Management perspective shouldn’t really be used

Notes on Effectiveness

• There are many factors at play:
  • How many of the various insects in the area at the time
  • Wind (Mosquitoes cannot fly that well / do the “space station docking type maneuvers” in wind or by a fan as well
  • Some people are more targeted by mosquitoes etc (add in the interesting research here later)
  • Active Ingredient Concentration, if any enhancing non-active ingredients are used, how the repellent is used/applied etc
• This can lead to confirmation bias or on the other hand valid products or active ingredients not working.
• Scientific Testing can be done, essentially Disease Free Mosquitoes are bred in a lab, you put your arm in a bag of them, or go inside a screen room (almost like a butterfly garden), and bites are counted.
  • Dual Use risk, but not that hard to set up which may be interesting

User Erics Digging Notes:

• Permethrin
• Citriodiol / Oleoresin of Lemon Eucalyptus (/ Lemon Gumtree whatever it is called)
  • Doing Precision Fermentation for this would be neat, jar of algae instead of tropical plant.
• add more later

Cloves

Ingredients:

1. Alcohol: 1/2 liter
2. Dried cloves: 10 g
3. Body oil (almond for instance): 100 ml

Preparation:

1. Mix alcohol and dried cloves on a bottle. Shake well and leave it closed for 4 days
2. Run through a sieve to remove the cloves
3. Put the liquid on a squirt bottle and add the body oil
4. Shake well

External Links

• The Wikipedia Page on Insect Repellents
• 5 Homemade Bug Repellents