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09/9/2024 at 1:37pm
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Tales are occasionally told of various small creatures (usually unidentified species!) 'visiting' tents/caravan awnings in various ways, but never a personal experience of mine in near 60 years of camping, save on one occasion a Mole pushed up a Mole hill under my airbed (no damage done, just a lumpy bed!) if that counts.
Insects can be another matter! Always wise to check pitch carefully for ant activity BEFORE pitching. Ants are creatures of habit, and plonking a tent on an established path is NOT going to stop them!
Food storage can be an issue, attracting all sorts of insects, air tight plastic containers, sealed camping 'larders' with tightly zipped 'doors', and hanging food in bags from a high point rather than placing on the ground, or on tables etc. stood on the ground are common ways of minimising infestation.
Mozzies and midges etc., are VERY dependent on environmental factors, location, season etc., but also the great problem, that some people ATTRACT them, and some people REPEL them quite naturally!
I think, for most of us, with experience of camping, solutions to problems are found, and become common practice without really thinking about it, so we automatically put the sweet cakes etc. in a sealed container rather than leave loose for the bugs to get to, we inspect the pitch for potential unwelcome guests BEFORE pitching tent etc.
Then again, many of us are at ease with being in and amongst 'nature', most of it will go about it's own business without being a menace or nuisance to us, so we don't seek to eliminate it from 'our' space too much. For my part, I quite like the notion that I'm having minimal impact, and all sorts of creatures are happy to carry on around me, if I get a glimpse of a vole or hedgehog, or a bird scurrying around my pitch, I feel privileged to have seen them.
Most modern tents with SIGs are relatively bug proof, IF you use the mesh doors properly and don't leave it wide open. Good practice like NOT leaving loose food, crumbs, and rubbish bags around to attract rodents and insects deals with a LOT of the potential problems.
The VAST majority of creatures are cautious, as they are 'prey' to bigger creatures, so they will keep away from strange things, noises and activity until they become familiar and no longer perceived them as a threat. Country creatures and urban creatures often develop VERY different behaviour, an urban Fox or rat etc. will be bold and venture out any time of the day, not be unduly disturbed by people, dogs etc., but you'll be hard pressed to see their rural cousins!
Good luck.
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09/9/2024 at 6:28pm
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Quote: Originally posted by Fiona W on 09/9/2024
Midges, mosquitoes, wasps, bluebottles & other flies, hedgehogs, field mice, free range dogs, free range chickens, free range feral children…. Had them all. Do roe deer count? Had them too.
There’s no “one deterrent fits all”. Especially when fly spray damages the tent material so you can’t use it on the feral child peering in your tent door (I’m joking….: just making a point that no one deterrent will solve everything).
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Laughing till it near hurts! - We don't need a new device, we all just need a 'Fiona W' pitched close enough to us to attract all the 'pests' away from us, but not so close that the 'pests' impact us!
Personally, I have a mate called 'John' who deals with the Mozzies for us, they bleed him near dry, but they are so busy with him, they leave the rest of us alone!  After an hour or two in the evening, he's got so many bite lumps and bumps, he resembles the Elephant Man! Are we sympathetic? - hell no, we're revelling in our non-bitten comfort, and he's never caught anything nasty yet!
..... you can't use bug spray on 'feral children'! Why on earth not, does it not harm them sufficiently! I'm inclined to swat them too, if only I could get them with the high voltage bug zapping bat, the sight and sound of frying and smouldering brat! ... now am I joking or not!!!!! 
Thank you Fiona for brightening my day with your 'experiences'.
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