You may want to spray your picnic blanket or backpack as chiggers can infest any object that touches the ground. Texas A & M suggests using sprays specifically for clothing that contain permethrin.

Find out how to get rid of chiggers and keep them out of your outdoor space. ... Apply permethrin: Spray lawns and areas attractive to chiggers with a permethrin based pesticide.

Manufacturers of permethrin spray for clothing note that because the spray is meant only for fabric and not for skin, for full protection people also need to use an insect repellent on their ...

He applies an even coat, then flips the T-shirt over to spray the back. In addition to treating his clothes with permethrin, Quinteros wears a DEET-based repellent to cover his exposed skin when ...

Then spray enough of the permethrin to get the fabric visibly wet, and allow it to dry before you wear it. Besides shoes and clothes, you can also treat tents, backpacks, hats, and other items.

Permethrin is also used as a spray around homes and in public spaces, as a cream to treat animals, and as a lotion to treat scabies and lice on humans. The U.S. military has used permethrin ...

This picaridin spray is available in a variety of sizes and scents (orange and night sky), and we like that you can bundle it with the company’s 8-or 24-ounce permethrin sprays. Also great The ...

Consumer Reports explains how deet and permethrin can protect you from ticks. These products can go a long way toward keeping you safe, and using at least one is better than not using anything.

When you spray permethrin on your clothes, a study published in May found, it incapacitates ticks quickly, rendering them unable to bite. It didn't take long for emails to come flooding in.