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Started by Buzzkiller, April 09, 2015, 11:31:54 AM

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Buzzkiller

April 09, 2015, 11:31:54 AM
What is the best ways to keep the bull gnats away?

Gooserbat

#1
April 09, 2015, 11:33:07 AM
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One of my personal current interests is nest predators and how a majority of hunters, where legal bait to the extent of chumming coons.  However once they get the predators concentrated they don't control them.

Spitten and drummen

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April 09, 2015, 11:43:04 AM
Quote from: Gooserbat on April 09, 2015, 11:33:07 AM
Thermacell
yes sir. best thing since sliced bread.
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April 09, 2015, 12:39:48 PM
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Buzzkiller

#4
April 09, 2015, 01:36:24 PM
Thanks for the info. I was told thermacell would not work on gnats. I will be buying a couple now

101st501

#5
April 09, 2015, 01:39:25 PM
I use bug spray with the highest level of deet I can find.

Halfski

#7
April 09, 2015, 05:20:20 PM
I don't know about bull gnats in particular, but a friend of mine uses Absorbine Jr. and he says it works like a charm for gnats.  I will be trying it out this year. 

TRG3

#8
April 09, 2015, 11:09:12 PM
It seems that anywhere around water as it warms up, we get what are called locally as "buffalo gnats". They are not only in the turkey woods but in town as well. These seemed to have showed up in the last 4-5 years. They sound like rain hitting the windshield as you go down the highway. With all of this spring's rains, they are thick and for me a head net and gloves seems to take care of them. If you don't protect yourself from them, they love to get in the hair on the back of your neck and have a feast, leaving whelps!

CASH

#9
April 10, 2015, 12:46:14 AM
Skin So Soft for gnats
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hoyt

#10
April 10, 2015, 04:11:01 AM
Don't know what kinda gnats they were but one yr and the only time I ever remember gnats of any kind being a problem in South West Central Fl...Greenswamp East WMA particularly were  absolutely almost intolerable.

Nothing I know of actually helped deter them, but everyone at least wore head nets and some used safety goggles to keep them out of their eyes. Little portable fans were used to try and eat more sandwiche  for lunch than gnats.

Dtrkyman

#11
April 10, 2015, 09:30:52 AM
Thermacel does nothing for the gnats in Illinois, buffalo gnats I believe, menthol is supposed to work, listerine and vanilla...I buy a spray called buggins, get it at Menards works absolutely amazing.  I think those suckers like deet!

Buzzkiller

#12
April 10, 2015, 01:32:51 PM
I tried a thermacell today and it does not slow them down at all. 
Tried vanilla  before they love it.

I am feeling bad for the turkeys having to deal with the gnats, they
have killed my chickens before

Bamalimbhanger

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April 10, 2015, 06:21:22 PM
Vanilla extract ... I have also used a  spray called no-nats in south alabama ... it works great

Cutt

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April 10, 2015, 07:47:27 PM
Quote from: Bamalimbhanger on April 10, 2015, 06:21:22 PM
Vanilla extract ... I have also used a  spray called no-nats in south alabama ... it works great

Is this the stuff here? http://www.ebay.com/itm/No-Natz-Bug-Spray-/141630600642?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item20f9d775c2

Would like to get a bottle to keep in the truck, Thanks
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