After getting eaten up by chiggers recently, even after spraying with DEEP Woods OFF (deet), I am wondering if using Pyrethrin would Provide better protection.
In many discussions, Pyrethrin has been touted as a great deterrant to many bothersome insects, and can be sprayed on clothing to provide long lasting protection.
Has anyone ideas as to whether Pyrethrin will kill or repel chiggers and possibly work better than deet.?

Permethren is the standard one for ticks .Better than DEET for that.Don't know about others.

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Originally posted by mete:
Permethren is the standard one for ticks .Better than DEET for that.Don't know about others.

+ one I use it on all my clothes has cut my tick rate down 99ercetn should work well on chiggers. Just don't use it on your skin.

My bottle of Permethrin says, "Repels & kills ticks, chiggers, mites, and mosquitoes". I have used it prior to African hunts, and hunts as far north as the Northwest Territories of Canada. I was never bothered by insect pests. In the NWTs it was neat, in that I could see swarms of mosquitoes around our pack dog, and the guide was bothered. It was as if I had an invisible shield.

Be sure to follow the instructions on the bottle.

I would go with Permethrin over DEET every time. For simple backyard stuff, I use DEET.

We spray our work clothes and snake boots with permethrin. We spend a lot of time at our forty in the ozarks working among those pests! Only time we get chiggers is when we are not wearing our sprayed work clothes!

Those answers are what I was hoping to hear.

+1 on spraying clothes and hats with permethrin.....been doing it to my hunting clothes for years. I don't use DEET at all.

I believe DEET is just a repellant. Permethrin/pyrethroids are an actual insecticide that also has repellant properties.

Tom

Permethrin is impregnated into the threads which are used to weave the cloth that US military BDUs (battle dress) are made of. It is also the active ingredient in the Bug-off clothing line so it has a proven effective and safe (in it's dried form) track record. If an anthropoid walks across about 8" of impregnated clothing they die. Get a 10% concentrate of permethrin (horse section of farm supply store) and use 5.5 oz./ gallon of water. Dip your clothes in it wearing rubber gloves and let them air dry. The protection last for about 6 washings. Not safe to expose liquid permethrin to bare skin.
DEET is safer to apply to bare skin but it is messy and is a good paint or stock finish remover. It will also melt most plastics. I like the new dry formula better than the old pump bottle but it is more expensive.

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Had a client shitscared of tick bite fever so he brought over a home brew he claimed 100% effective. Turns out it was diluted Permethrin which he proceeded to sprayed over everything including his body. Eyes swelled shut, rash, profuse sweating and not real happy. Two days later he was better. Good news was, he got home without TBF.

Read the label - DEET can be applied directly to skin. Permethrin is a poison and should not be applied directly to the skin but is excellent for clothes and boots.

Deet is not real good for wood gun stock finishes either.

Nor is oil + vinegar salad dressing good for a guns bluing. (don't ask why my pistol was on the supper table.) I have used Adam's spray for years;a pyrethrum. That solution in made from chrysanthamums. We had a severe shortage a few years ago due to the fact that the mums are grown in Africa + social unrest being what it was/is,the productive farms were being given to warlord buddies who knew nothing about farming. I suppose things have improved as Adam's is once again available. Works great on fire ants as well.

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Read the label - DEET can be applied directly to skin.

There are a few of us that have a allergy to deet ended up in the hospital twice now a allow it no where near me.