Abstract
Mosquitoes, tabanids, punkies, black flies, and other blood-sucking Diptera are often the bane of field researchers, sportsmen, and laborers in many areas. A few years ago I read an abstract of a Soviet paper concerning the use of net shirts impregnated with diethylamidemetatoluate for invididual protection against biting flies (Cherapanov and Gomoyunova 1963). Using the abstract as a guide I made several net shirts from “mosquito bar” material and soaked them each in 200 ml of 30% technical deet (Metadelphene®, Hercules Powder Co., Wilmington, Del.) in alcohol. The shirts were of loose hooded ski-jacket design with elastic at bottom, wrist, and hood openings. The net material was woven cotton-rayon mosquito bar cloth with hexagonal openings (13/in.).
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