Wash-in permethrin for clothes

[palmnut]

Had a conversation with someone the other day who said he used wash-in permethrin on his trousers to keep the ticks at bay (he was in a very infested area with Lymes disease). Quick searches of the usual outdoor shop web sites haven't shown me any likely products - can anybody give me any clues please?

 

[John Fenna]

The permethrin I get is from our local Army Surplus store and you simply soak your gear in a bucket of the stuff diluted with water.
John

 

[spamel]

Make sure you wear appropriate PPE. As I recall, it is pretty nasty stuff. I'm sure itneeds disposing of other than tipping it down the drain!

 

[Wintrup]

How about making your own insecticide brew with Pyrethrum, which is a chemical found in Chrysanthemum flowers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrethrum

Just a thought.

 

[Wintrup]

Further to my last post, heres an interesting site.

http://www.eap.mcgill.ca/AgroBio/ab360-02e.htm#PROCESSING%20PYRETHRUM

Oh, and you can buy the seeds here: http://www.eseeds.com/c-3829-chrysanthemum-cinerariifolium.aspx

Too late for a crop of tick killers this year, but they're useful seeds to have a stock of I reckon.

 

[Hunter_zero]

Make sure you wear appropriate PPE. As I recall, it is pretty nasty stuff. I'm sure itneeds disposing of other than tipping it down the drain!

100% right!

If you get caught tipping insecticides in to water ways (drains etc) then you will be facing a very very very big fine and rightly so.
Most insecticides will wipe out the aquatic population of a river with ease.

It should be noted that insecticides do not really repel insects but just kill them.

John

 

[Hunter_zero]

Further to my last post, heres an interesting site.

http://www.eap.mcgill.ca/AgroBio/ab360-02e.htm#PROCESSING PYRETHRUM

Oh, and you can buy the seeds here: http://www.eseeds.com/c-3829-chrysanthemum-cinerariifolium.aspx

Too late for a crop of tick killers this year, but they're useful seeds to have a stock of I reckon.

You'll find that the results will become unstable in UV very quickly.

John

 

[akabu]

have been using this for a few years Don't know if it's sold in your part of the world ,send an e-mail to see if they have distributors.

http://www.sawyer.com/products.htm#003

 

[C_Claycomb]

I am curious why one would want to wash the stuff into clothing when spraying it on the outside works well and uses far less of the chemical. In order to wet the whole garment you would need a fair bit of water, hence a fair bit of permethrin concentrate. It might be the answer for truely infested areas, but it seems a bit of overkill for anywhere that I have been.

If you want the stuff, it is made by Nomad Medical and a Google search for "Nomad Medical permethrin net treatment" will pop up lots of places to buy it, look for the Bug Proof label.

 

[arjuna]

arjuna

whene you playing whit pesticide you most be carefill white the vaporization off the toxine ingredient


trust me i am a pestman

let the stilnes in your self give the aswere

 

[bikething]

I am curious why one would want to wash the stuff into clothing when spraying it on the outside works well and uses far less of the chemical.

speaking from personal experience of using a pump-spray bottle - I should think there's a lot less effort in the wash-in method, as well as guaranteeing an even coating with no missed patches...

i'm not lazy.... i like to think of it as being "more efficient"

 

[Templar]

Hi guys,

When I was in the army in the tropics we used a product called "perigen" I'm not sure of the spelling but thats what it sounded like, its actually sold to treat timber against termites and the like, but diluted down its used to treat mozzie nets and our cams against ticks and mozzies.

An alturnative is to smear a high DEET mozzie rep on all the openings on your clothes, ie: waist band, trouser hems, fly, sock tops, shirt button line and cuffs and collar, but keep the stuff away from your plastics like silva compasses and watch faces and plastinc eye glass lenses, clouds then up like no ones business.

This is just an idea that works well for me...

I hope this helps...

Cheers Karl.