Bugs and your tent...

[Parault]

Noisy people. I wonder if there is a breeding population in Arkansas yet.

Nothing down here yet.
If they show up they will be skewered Bar-B-Qued,and served with slaw

[tompritchett]

If they show up they will be skewered Bar-B-Qued,and served with slaw

On the bun or off to the side?

[toptimlrd]

What chases away pythons?? According to todays edition of USA Today the south is being invaded by pythons.

Just tell the pythons they didn't exist in 186X so they are just too farby or your event. ;-D

[flattop32355]

Noisy people. I wonder if there is a breeding population in Arkansas yet.

Of noisy people or pythons?

[Southern Cal]

I sprinkle Boric Acid around the perimeter of the tent. Boric Acid (or Roach Proof) is non-toxic to people (unless you get some dust in your eyes, then it irritates them) and ants, spiders, and other crawling critters don't like it at all (irritates their exoskeleton). The dust is micropscopic, and once it gets on the bugs they pass it to their friends when they touch each other. Once ingested after cleaning their antennae, the boric acid stops the insect's stomach fom working then they starve and dry up.

I mix up a very thin "syrup" of sugar water with a little boric acid mixed in and place it in a cut off Dixie cup where ants are congregating. The ants love the nectar, bring their friends, take it back to the nest, and within one to three days, they are all gone, thousands of them. Cheap too.

[bill watson]

Ticks are no joke, and weren't funny in 186x, either, when they sometimes went by the name of "wood louse." But in the last 18 years or so of reenacting, I've encountered maybe three, from Florida to Massachusetts and west to Corinth, with the exception of Recon I, when I put the Brooklyn zouaves in a Virginia thicket for a bivouac that turned out to be crawling alive with ticks.

Compared to where I grew up in southern New Jersey, most of the places I've reenacted have been what I'd consider almost bug-free. Or maybe it's just that after a certain amount of time even bugs won't go near my shirt....

What you really need to do about ticks is check for them, daily. With the amount of sweat most of us put out, nothing we ingest or coat ourselves with is a sure thing.

[RWelker]

What chases away pythons??

The World's Funniest Joke* should do the trick.
Or did you mean the other type of Python?

*http://youtube.com/watch?v=hsW9DO1k5-s