The skeeters are real bad here this year so I bought a fogger. Fill it up, plug it in, get up wind and wipe out the bugs. Works great til the next big wind blows in the next hatch but at least we get relief for a couple of days

Thermacell uses allethrin, a synthetic version of pyrethrin which is in some brands of insect repellant sprays.  Pyrethrin comes from chrysthanemums so I suggest you plant flowers.  

Thermacell will go through one butane cartridge and three repellant mats every 9-12 hours. Purchased in bulk will run $50 for ten cartridges and thirty mats which will yield approximately 90 to 120hours of operation. Therefore, cost to operate is approximately 40 to 50cents per hour.

It may not be the ticket for someone hunting out of a backpack for days at a time or for someone who is moving and/or hunting the breeze, but I can see some advantage for persons who are afield for short durations where the air is still and they remain in the same location.

Daddy Bear

The mosquito coils use the same active ingredient as the thermacell and cost about 20 cents a coil for several hours of burn time.  They work very well.  Garlic or garlic pills help a lot, too.

QuoteOriginally posted by Stumpknocker:
Learn to blow out the side of your mouth like we do in south GA.  Bug sprays don't really help down here when they're bad.  Thank goodness the GA gnats don't bit like the FL ones do.  Tge.

This is about the only thing I've found that works when you're moving around and can't sit by the Thermacell.

Just watch it when you inhale...  

thermacell is the bomb