"Insect Repellents: Protection Times for Products that Repel Mosquitoes and Ticks - By Company Name"
Don't know how I found this, but it's VERY INTERESTING. Some DEET products claim to repel ticks according to this.The ones with the highest concentrations of DEET.
This may JUST be a list of what the manufactures claim. I've heard that DEET does not repel ticks. If that's true, why are they allowed to make the claims? (rhetorical).
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DEET is horrible stuff and it never works. Permethrin is the only one that seems to do anything! It has been tested before. Sheets and pant legs have been sprayed, and ticks placed at the edges...the DEET fails.
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Repelling properties of some plant materials on the tick Ixodes ricinus L. Thorsell W, Mikiver A, Tun�n H.
University of Stockholm, Department of Zoology, Stockholm, Sweden.
The repellent effects on nymphal stages of Ixodes ricinus L. of some plant materials have been studied in the laboratory.
The plant material consisted of an ethanolic extract from Achillea millefolium L., and volatile oils of birch and/or pine tar, citronella, cloves, eucalyptus, geranium, lavender, lily of the valley and peppermint.
The most pronounced effects were observed for the oils of citronella, cloves and lily of the valley.
They possessed repelling activities of the same magnitude as the reference repellent DEET (N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide).
Some major constituents of these oils, e.g. citronellol and geraniol (oil of citronella and lily of the valley) and eugenol (oil of cloves) showed pronounced repelling effects.
This was also the case for phenethyl alcohol, a minor component in the oil from lily of the valley.
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I heard that DEET doesn't work against ticks too. That's why I thought this site was interesting.
Several products claim 8 hour tick protection with DEET.
Hey, I can actually test this in realtime! I can spray myself with DEET and then see if the now very hungry Allen Steere the Tick, I have imprisoned, will go for me or run away!
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