PEST FREE PICNICS

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PEST FREE PICNICS

Sites near lakes, ponds and rivers are where insect populations flourish, particularly after a rain, your pefect sot you want your picnic, Picnicking in a dry, open area, away from the water, means fewer insects.

Wear light colored clothes. Avoid perfume and flower prints on clothing that resembles flowers.

DO NOT wear perfume, scented hair spray, body lotion, suntan lotion, talc.

WARD OFF mosquitoes and other flying insects with a repellent containing diethyl toluamide. Or try taking 100 mg of thiamine ( a B-Complex vitamin) on a daily basis or for a few days before and during time spent in "buggy" areas.  Thiamine is secreted through your pores, emitting a scent that repels all insects.

Place  domed net covers over food.

Use pole-colored picnic baskets, utensils and tablecloths.  Bright colors attract bugs.

EAT AND STORE food off the ground, on a table.

REDUCE the RISK of an INSECT INVASION by excluding from your picinic fruits that have a very high sugar content (especially grapes and melons), tuna and other highly scented fish and meats, sweet fruit drinks and desserts.  Substitute milder scented foods, vegetables; meats like ham and turkey; non-smelly cheeses; apples and pears; dry low-sugar snacks like pretzels, chips and nuts; drinks like iced teas, seltzer.

KEEP ALL FOODS in SEALED containers or in 'ZIPPERED" plastic bags to mask the odors.

TRY AN ANTI-PEST MEASURE:

Mix 1 cup sugar and 1/2 tsp. carbaryl(hardware stores) w/sufficient water to form a thin syrup. Divide syrup into a few pie tins, away from but surrounding your picnic area. The pest will be more attracted to that than your food. Or mix sugar and water in a paste-Insects will feed on this but still may stray to your picnic area.

CITRONELLA CANDLES emit a sharp odor that repels all types of insects.  If you are at a picnic table, place the candles on the table and under it as well.  The scent rises and prevents mosquitoes from biting your legs.

Zap that mosquito bite with an ice cube. The toxin injected by the mosquito dilates the capillaries, causing the characteristic bump.  An ice cube, wrapped in cloth and placed on bite for 5-10 minutes, will constrict capillaries, reduce swelling and temporarily numb the nerves that transmit the itch signal, To ease residual itching, apply a paste of baking soda and water to the bite after treatment with ice.  Wash the baking soda off after 10 minutes; repeat every 3-4 hours until itching stops.

Mosquitoes, flies-calamine lotion.

Bees make sure singer it out, ticks make sure they let go, by warm needle or alcohol, spiders and snakes, reactions go to the hospital.

Being allergic to bees, we always have an epiphen shot with us just to be safe of an alarming reaction.