Originally Posted by
indyfabz
Damn! That remind me of at least one place. Strawberry Lake in MN. I nearly ingested a few while eating breakfast the next morning. When I unpacked my tent at the end of the day there were blood spots on it from the mosquitoes that got crushed when I packed it up.
I grew up in Minnesota, mosquitoes are the unofficial state bird. But the photo was either from Nova Scotia or Prince Edward Island, not sure which.
What really surprised me was how many of the mosquitoes that were in the tent when I packed it in the morning survived for a day in the packed tent and were moving around in it when I made camp at night.
This year I tried the repellent Picaridin, it worked pretty well. Theoretically that does not damage your equipment like Deet can, and I did not observe any damage to anything from using it.
https://www.rei.com/product/887628/s...lotion-4-fl-oz
But there were one or two campsites where the bugs were so thick that I reverted to the tiny bottle of 100 percent Deet that I brought as a backup plan.