Permethrin. Anyone have experience using this stuff? I'm getting sick and tired of getting covered in ticks and finding them all over my car days after I go out hiking or whatever. I'm gonna buy some clothes dedicated to dowsing them down with permethtrim and bagging them each time I finish my outdoor stuff and tossing them in th dryer. I'm just wondering a few things:>Does it actually work>can I get sweaty in the clothes treated with it>how long does it last on clothes. Any other advice will be appreciated.
>>2869309It does work and it stays working for at least 5 washes. I've had ticks explode on my legs after touching the sock almost a year after treatment. Once it's dry you can wear and wash the clothes normally. Now let me ask you something. Is anything you typed real? Have you ever found a single tick on yourself? Because I haven't been bitten by a tick since I was a child and feel maybe 2 a year on average crawling on me then take care of them. Do you really just find them randomly in your car all the time or are you making shit up because you saw a youtube video?
>>2869313No I'm being serious... a few years ago I was walking on some downed cat tail reeds and every step I took like dozens of nymphs scattered away from my foot it was like a horror movie. The other day I was kneeling down on just regular length grass and I found seven ticks on me when I got back to my car and then when I got home I found three more in my sweater. I do wildlife photography, and I get into the thick of it, and recently they've become a real problem. The stuff makes ticks explode?
>>2869315Young ones yeah. By the time you roll your pants leg up to pick them off they are dead with their guts spilled out. You get absolutely covered with ticks all the time due to being a working wildlife photographer and just now started wondering about permethrin and instead of buying a 10 dollar bottle to test out you decided to go to 4chan?
>>2869318When i was a kid they weren't an issue, when I was a teen and early twenties, they weren't a problem, my late twenties they started to be noticed, and I just used a more concentrated deet solution. It has only been within the last I'd say five years they have become a big problem, so I need to start looking at alternatives to deet. Interesting how the stuff makes them explode.
>>2869313Not them but after the first trip I went on where ticks were present (we only have them in the East side of the state), my buddies car was crawling with the fuckers. I also had some crawl out of my laundry bin after I got home. Thankfully, none of us got bit, but I think it was mainly from our long clothing and constant checks.
>>2869309use jungle juice, it's the only thing that makes Alaska tolerable in mosquito season.
>>2869309It'll give ya cancer.
