Question:
Shopping at a surplus store the other day, I saw "mosquito nets" and
"mosquito
bars." -- the sales person said the nets are flat and the bars are those
rectangular 3D
enclosures you put over a cot -- but looking at the merchandise, they
were ALL
3-D, and they varied tremendously in fineness.
I'm actually more interested in barring city ants than mosquitoes, but
I'd like to have
a large piece of netting, not a pre-defined shape. Maybe I'd use it to
extend a
roofless tent for sky viewing, or to string around inside my van to keep
critters
out -- but one thing I found out the hard way a few years ago is that
old-style
tents with mesh designed to keep out mosquitoes and forest ants do NOT
keep
out city ants. I was camped with my girls in a tent-motel of sorts near
the Anderson
Pea Soup factory, planning on taking the tour, when they came in through
the window mesh at us (we had NO food in the tent, I think they smelled
toothpaste on
our breath) and we had to pack up and leave for a motel. Talk about
almost not
surviving -- having escaped our angry neighbors after clanking around at
2am,
I almost fell asleep on the road 3 times before I found a motel.
What terminology do I need to learn to get a big piece of ant-barring
netting for
a reasonable price?
Answer:
Its called "cans of ant and roach killer"
Spray a circle around the footing of your tent.
About the only way to keep ants out.
Use a can of "Comet" or a similar cleaning powder to spread a circle
around your tent. The ants will not cross it. Here in Texas we
spread a circle around our blanket while we are fishing from the bank
to keep away the fire ants.
