warbonnet needs your opinion

[bigfoot2]

No bites so far using a WBBB 1.7 double and a WBBB 1.1 double here in Oregon during skeeter hatches.

BF

[Mikums]

The general public used to believe that GM corn pollen was killing monarch caterpillars because only one firm had tested the hypothesis, and the test was flawed.

[DiscoveryDiver]

The general public used to believe that GM corn pollen was killing monarch caterpillars because only one firm had tested the hypothesis, and the test was flawed.

Wow...that slapped me out of nowhere...

[Bush]

No problems, no worries, drive on my friend...Bush

[Xare]

My WBBB 1.1 double arrived and I hanged for the first time in my back yard. The Mosquitoes were out and I was bitten several times while adjusting the straps to get the right ridgeline tension.

But I was safe once zipped up in my Hammock !

I saw a bunch of Mosquitoes sitting on the bug netting and they wanted to get at me but they could not. I slept in the hammock for a few hours with shorts and a t shirt on. No bites.

[srestrepo]

at 325 lbs and with a 1.7 dbl, i've never been bitten through my fabric either. i woudl think that i would based on strain on the material but i guess not.

[DemostiX]

Reading in the DIY Forum I came on this thread initiated by Flackfizer: Now, maybe he had not updated his profile, but at the time of posting, his hammock was a WBBB dbl 1.7. And, he was insistent , in follow up, that the bites were coming at contact points, such as elbows.

I'm bringing this forward, Brandon, because there is a persistent bias when you survey your loyal owners. When I stopped reading replies here NOBODY had reported a bite through a hammock body of any hammock, yours, or any other. Incredible.

I am getting pretty sick of the little *******s. I am in Florida and they are a year-round problem--to the point of making hanging sometimes very unpleasant. I am moving towards a DIY hammock adn have been using a full enclosure net. The problem is where elbows, shoulders, back of hands etc rest against the hammock cloth and press outward against the net. Big mosquitoes have no real trouble getting through that. On a bad night you just lie there like Gulliver afraid to move one way or another. What I want to know is if anyone has any real experience with this and can say if silnylon will in fact block a mosquitoe's stinger? Maybe heavier than 1.1 oz? what is the collective wisdom on this?

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[Lepmeister]

Bugs run and hide from my WBBB

[Mustardman]

Demostix, I believe you've read Flackfizer's post incorrectly - it appears to me that he was discussing bugs biting through his DIY silnylon hammock when his elbows pressed the hammock fabric up against his full-enclosure bug net.

Never, ever trust the information beneath someone's name to tell you what hammock they are talking about. Even if they keep the info up to date, many of us have multiple hammocks that we play around with. Always rely on the post body to tell you which hammock is being discussed.

[DemostiX]

I didn't assume the bites came through a Warbonnet.

My point is that the survey by a camping equipment designer of some integrity drew out universal responses of 'Never had this problem with my Warbonnet." But, the inference that 'skeeters don't draw blood through his or other hammocks would be wrong.

Unless there is some reason to believe that the coating on the sil-nylon facilitated the 'sleeters' penetration, blood-sucking through fabric can be a real problem. Professionals in the tropical medicine community know it well. And it was reported here in the thread someone else started.

Maybe, most of the 'skeeter attack through the hammock bed is foiled for camping hammockers by the layer of fabric they are wearing when in the hammock. As was suggested within the thread (or elsewhere): 1. an enveloping bed net can be effective 2. permethrin or similar spray or douse reduces the level of attacks.

There are ways to fish which give no estimate of the presence of fish.