Preparing for an adventure trip with your loved ones is what you might do each year. When you are planning for a night in the great outdoors, you need to think of everything you might need while you are gone. You should keep all your Backpacking gear and Outdoor camping supplies, the latter which should involve insect repellents. However, when you get to the campsite, you can’t help but think what else you should do to keep these bothersome insects away. No matter which insect repellents you buy, those crawlers figure out a way to arrive at the campsite and spoil your entire your vacation. Before you get even more annoyed, here’s a solution. What you can do is swing a plastic bag filled with water around your campsite, and it’s that easy to send them away!
The major principle behind the insects going away is refraction. Refraction is the bending of light when it travels from one medium to the other (air and water in this case). The refraction of light causes bugs to have more than one vision which creates confusion for the bugs and as a result, they experience more than one directions at once. For this occurrence, light is required. When you are at a campsite at night, a light bulb can aid this phenomenon. Other than that, the campfire might also be a great light source.
So as to make such an insect repellent, there are a few measures to follow:
• First take a plastic bag and add water in it. Make sure this bag is able to hold the pressure of the water when it is hung. The water is the medium that will make the high optic flow for the insects. High optic flow areas are the danger zones for crawlers as this elevates their probability of collision. Therefore, they will keep away.
• To add more reflection in your plastic bag, include some coins. Make sure that they are sparkly. The shinier they are the more light they will bounce back and the more will the optic flow be. Therefore, insects will have a tough time. You may also like to add more than one penny. However, do not add so many that the plastic bag becomes unable to keep them.
• Now close the bag and tie it with a piece of string that is a few feet in length. Make sure this string is strong enough to carry the water filled plastic bag when it is hung.
• Swing the bag around the location where ticks are bothering you. The presence of light in this site is the key. Along with that, if there is breeze around the location, you can rest assured that things will go your way. This is because wind will make the bag move to and fro, thereby increasing the diameter of the danger zone.
• Lastly, what you can do is check the aftermath. Take a close look at the populace of the insects and find out whether your solution has affected them. If you have been effective, hanging more than one water bag is also going to help.
