To Repel Ticks, Try Spraying Your Clothes With A Pesticide That Mimics Mums
Ticks can be nasty. I’ve known many people who have contracted tick borne illnesses over the years. I always brush my clothes with my hands very quickly and often when I’m hiking in the woods during this time of the year. Ticks are very fragile when they first get on you so it’s easy to brush them off. But apparently there are studies that have been done by the military and others showing that treating your clothes with an insecticide from chrysanthemums can be very effective:
“There’s new evidence to support a decades-old strategy for preventing the tick bites that lead to all sorts of nasty diseases, including Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever.
The remedy involves spraying your clothing with permethrin — a pesticide that’s chemically similar to extracts of the flowering chrysanthemum plant.”
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/07/09/625459326/to-repel-ticks-try-spraying-your-clothes-with-a-pesticide-derived-from-mums
When ticks come into contact with clothing sprayed with permethrin, research shows, they quickly become incapacitated and are unable to bite.