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  1. Sub5mango

    Hammocks, is longer and wider better?

    Any recommendations?
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    Ticks and Hammocks

    I've read that they sense heat and CO2.
  3. Sub5mango

    Hammocks, is longer and wider better?

    That's super useful to know. My wingspan is 169cm, so wider one for me as well.
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    Ticks and Hammocks

    HaHa, I've never had the slug problem... but I'm a mouth breather and I never wake up hungry, maybe they just crawl straight into my gob! Interesting on disguising body smell. Recently I switched to a very low carb diet from a sugary diet. It's early days yet, but I think the mozzies/gnats are...
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    Hammocks, is longer and wider better?

    I've not used a hammock before and have a choice of two. I'm 5'7", 170 lbs, side sleeper. One hammock is 320 x 170cm, and the other is 270 x 140cm. Any thoughts? I like the idea of the bigger one because I've read bigger is better for side sleeping; but it lacks the double skin (I'll use a mat...
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    Ticks and Hammocks

    Thanks. Have you ever tried this one? https://www.nomadtravel.co.uk/travel-store/mosquito-insect-defence/mosquito-repellents/trek-natural
  7. Sub5mango

    Ticks and Hammocks

    Useful link, thanks.
  8. Sub5mango

    Ticks and Hammocks

    No, this was early in the morning, at the head end of my bivi, coming in.
  9. Sub5mango

    Ticks and Hammocks

    I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm saying that aren't they also in leaf litter, not just grass and bracken?
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    Ticks and Hammocks

    Thanks. 3mm is about right. I've been aware of ticks for years but when I used to go into the woods as a kid there wasn't so much lyme disease awareness/risk as now. What type of insect repellent do you use? DEET based? I don't like that, stuff :-(
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    Ticks and Hammocks

    Here is one example of many I've found that reference leaf litter as a tick habitat https://greentechohio.com/2018/11/06/fall-ticks-active/
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    Ticks and Hammocks

    Deer sleep in the area, in the leaf litter. So won't the ticks fall off into the leafs and wait there till they sense heat and CO2 again and then head towards it?
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    Ticks and Hammocks

    It looked like pictures in the leaflet in this page, which are larger than a pin head. https://www.bds.org.uk/index.php/advice-education/lyme-disease
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    Ticks and Hammocks

    The reason I'm asking is because I've found them in my bivi bag :-(
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    Ticks and Hammocks

    Where I have been going for winter bushcamping will be prime tick ground now (leaf litter and loads of deer). So far I've been sleeping in a bivi bag under a tarp. Is a hammock a good way to avoid ticks locking on in the night?