[pct-l] REPELLING MOSQUITOES AND TICKS/GARLIC

[Edward Anderson]

You have mis-understood the garlic story that I posted.  I did not say that GARLIC would repel misquitoes. I was repeating what an Italian endurance rider told me. The insects that his garlic repelled were YELLOW JACKETS, not mosquitoes. I believed him. He sure smelled of garlic. That would repel most people. It might also repel Zombies.
 
MendoRider-Hiker
 

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 From: karl jorgensen <twizstix at gmail.com>
To: PCT <pct-l at backcountry.net> 
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 11:36 AM
Subject: Re: [pct-l] REPELLING MOSQUITOES AND TICKS/GARLIC
  
I just have to respond to this, now that garlic has been added.    I was
hiking in the North Cascades National Park a few years ago, and was camped.
  There was a young man who came and camped there also.    He was a real
garlic eater, and you could smell the garlic oozing from him even if he did
not speak.   I ask him why he was eating so much garlic.   He said it was
to keep the mosquitoes away, but he was having a much worse time with the
mosquitoes than i was,  and I was not using anything as a repellent, so I
really do not know if the garlic does it with mosquitoes.

jorgy pct06

On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Edward Anderson <mendoridered at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Yes, I realize that Zombies are really into garlic.
>
> You are mistaken, Nate. Mosquitoes do NOT land on my ExOfficio clothes -
> much less than bite through them. They might hover just over the fabric and
> decide not to land. This has been my experience.
>
> Now lets discuss garlic. While I have never tested it on mosquitoes, but
> do have an experience that proves that it works very well in repelling
> yellow jackets.
>
> Here is an incident that made me a believer:  I have done a lot of
> endurance horse racing in my past. This yellow jacket incident happened
> during the Swanton Pacific 100, which is run in the Santa Cruz mountains.
> (I have completed that race 11 times - it was a favorite). I was riding in
> the lead pack along with three women. We were about 23 miles into the race
> when I dropped beck to take a quick pee. As I remounted I heard the women
> riders SCREAMING. I guessed that it must be bees. This being a race, I had
> to move forward. The location turned out to be just before you had to cross
> "the slab" about 150' of angled rock that race management always warned
> riders to walk carefully over. That was the last place, while being stung,
> you would want to be riding dancing horses, who were being stung along with
> their riders. When I got there the women had crossed successfully, but I
> could hear them continue to scream in the distance. I crossed, and my horse
> and
>  I were repeatedly stung. The yellow jackets, unlike bees, can sting over
> and over, and over. They got into my socks and stung my ankles. They got
> into my hair under the riding helmet and stung my scalp. They stung my
> neck. Yellow jackets actually followed us for several miles. When we got to
> the 35 mile vet check there were spent yellow jackets on us, especially
> under my horse's mane.
>
> Almost everyone (about 40 riders) got badly stung on that morning. But not
> everyone. After the race I was talking to a rider who DID NOT get stung. He
> had even paused at the slab and saw that the yellow jackets were coming
> from beneath a rock. What he told me was that he was an Italian. He said he
> eats lots of GARLIC.
>
> MendoRider-Hiker
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>  From: Nathan Miller <erccmacfitheal at yahoo.com>
> To: Jerry Goller <geartester at comcast.net>; "pct-l at backcountry.net" <
> pct-l at backcountry.net>; Edward Anderson <mendoridered at yahoo.com>
> Cc: Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes <diane at santabarbarahikes.com>
> Sent: Sunday, February 12, 2012 8:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] REPELLING MOSQUITOES AND TICKS
>
> You could also try eating garlic...LOTS of garlic!  Mosquitoes have a very
> narrow range of smell.  Blocking and confusing their olfactory senses is
> the basis of repellents.  If they land on you, they'll still bite you, no
> matter what you're wearing, but they have to find you first!  With raw
> garlic, you also get all those other great health benefits!
>
> -Nate the Trail Zombie
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