[pct-l] Permethrin from livestock supply stores

[ROBERT ELLINWOOD]

 >"The one year I did not treat my clothes, hat, gloves, etc. I was bombarded
with mosquitoes and flies!!"
Ticks!   Permethrin is GREAT for killing ticks.  Waaay back in 2002, My wife and I were camped at Benchmark on the CDT after finishing a 350 mile stretch when, a day later, a group of three hikers pulled in after doing the exact same 350 mile section of CDT. They slept under tarps and complained bitterly of dealing with “hundreds” of ticks. We, having done the pre-trip Permethrin spraying, had dealt with only 6 ticks between us, none biting us .  FWIW.   I also buy it from a hardware store and carefully dilute it into a spray bottle.

 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Pamela Bryant <pambryant58 at gmail.com>
To: Town Food <pctl at marcusschwartz.com>; pct-l at backcountry.net <pct-l at backcountry.net>
Sent: Fri, Jun 17, 2022 12:26 pm
Subject: Re: [pct-l] Permethrin from livestock supply stores

Town Food,

I bought a Durvet (brand) from a feed store (undiluted) Permethrin 10% 8
ozs for $8.99 about 7 years ago. The container is still full! The people at
the store were very helpful with all of my questions.

I used up the spray bottle from REI Sawyer brand 12 oz and used the
empty bottle. The tricky part for me was getting the ratio to water and the
Permethrin. You want it to be odorless on your clothes. While it is wet it
is caustic to cats. So be careful. Once dried it is safe for cats.

The one year I did not treat my clothes, hat, gloves, etc. I was bombarded
with mosquitoes and flies!!

On Thu, Jun 16, 2022 at 10:23 PM Town Food <pctl at marcusschwartz.com> wrote:

> A while back (7 or 8 years maybe?) I remember reading on this list a
> recommendation to treat clothes with permethrin, not with the Sawyer
> products from hiking stores, but with permethrin from a livestock supply
> store.  The reason being, the livestock supply store will sell a quart
> of 10% permethrin for about $15, while a hiking store will sell a pint
> of 0.5% permethrin for about the same price.  So it's 40x cheaper if you
> dilute the 10% solution yourself.
>
> Has anybody here used this method, and if so, are there particular
> brands I should look for?  I've looked a bit on Amazon, and some of the
> Q&A there says that some brands are not formulated to stick to clothes,
> or will stain, or will retain a strong smell, so I'm not sure what I
> should use.
>
> Thanks,
>  -=Town Food
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