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Aliza Pointon
Unlike other topical repellents like bug sprays, Insect Shield's insect repellent treatment has no smell, leaves no sticky residue, and does not absorb into your skin. You can't tell it's there, but the bugs can.
Insect Shield is the leading brand of mosquito and tick repellent clothing. Our clothes help protect against mosquitoes and ticks that can carry dangerous diseases such as Lyme, West Nile, and malaria.
This is our second Easy Pack purchase and we couldn't be happier. My children do a lot of outdoor summer camps and activities and we live in one of the worst states for tick-borne disease. When they have on their clothing treated by Insect Shield they never come home with ticks. We were able to fit so much into the bag, even an outfit for myself and my husband along with a number of pieces for my children. It's an excellent value and the turnaround is so quick.
If you dared to walk in our North Carolina back yard, let alone work in the garden, you had to spray yourself with heavy duty insect repellant. The ticks and chiggers were everywhere. If you dared to even step in the grass, you were doomed to unbearable itching and the danger of tick bites. It wasn't a question of being bit. It was how many bites you'd get. We also like to hike and again had to spray head-to-foot when going on the trails. When I saw Insect Shield I ordered the socks to see if they actually worked. They did. Now my husband and I have complete outfits and can work in the yard and hike with impunity.
A friend [recommended] sending some clothing to Insect Shield for treatment. Good decision!! The per-item cost was very reasonable and my clothing was returned in about 2 weeks. I now feel very confident I'll be protected from ticks during my volunteer activities with the local Land Trust. I managed to get 4 pairs of socks, 2 shirts, and 4 pairs of trousers into the bag. If you spend any time out in the fields/woods, permethrin treated clothing is essential. Highly recommended.
My recent insect repellent clothing purchase was the best decision I've made all summer. I bought a pair of yoga pants, short sleeve tee shirts, long sleeve tee shirt, a pair of socks, and 3 hoodie jackets. I can comfortably sit out at night enjoying the night air on the deck and the mosquitos now hate me. They usually eat me alive. I have also been working in the woods cutting down heavy brush and not a single bug bite. We have had a lot of rain and hot humid days so the mosquitoes have been abundant. These insect clothes are amazing. They are comfortable, stylish and work repelling bugs.
The ticks and mosquitoes are ravenous in the woods where I walk my dogs five times a day. Yes, I bought the socks and pants for ticks but this [repellent] scarf is so handy to toss on as I'm heading out the door. I initially had it around my neck but when the mosquitoes started buzzing my head, I draped the scarf over my head and no more issues for the rest of the walk! It is light enough that I'll wear it now no matter how hot it is outside. Awesome find!
There is no such thing as "mosquito-proof clothing." But extensive studies and independent laboratory tests have confirmed the effectiveness of Insect Shield's permethrin treated clothing and gear as an insect repellent.
Insect Shield Technology is utilized by 75+ leading lifestyle brands, workwear distributors and International relief organizations across the globe to provide effective protection against insects and the diseases they can carry.
Millions of people are affected by insect-borne diseases every year. Insect Shield is proud to work with international relief organizations to help protect those most at risk with our insect repellent clothing and gear.
Save yourself the trouble of soaking your socks in the tick repellent permethrin by purchasing ones that already have the compound in them. Insect Shield makes a whole line of clothes and accessories with this repellent baked in.
From shirts and pants, hats, socks, workwear, accessories, and kids' clothes, Insect Shield permethrin treated clothing and gear will help protect you from biting insects such as mosquitoes and ticks and the dangerous diseases they may carry.
Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta. They are the largest group within the arthropod phylum. Insects have a chitinous exoskeleton, a three-part body (head, thorax and abdomen), three pairs of jointed legs, compound eyes, and a pair of antennae. Insects are the most diverse group of animals, with more than a million described species; they represent more than half of all animal species.
The insect nervous system consists of a brain and a ventral nerve cord. Most insects reproduce by laying eggs. Insects breathe air through a system of paired openings along their sides, connected to small tubes that take air directly to the tissues. The blood therefore does not carry oxygen; it is only partly contained in vessels, and some circulates in an open hemocoel. Insect vision is mainly through their compound eyes, with additional small ocelli. Many insects can hear, using tympanal organs, which may be on the legs or other parts of the body. Their sense of smell is via receptors, usually on the antennae and the mouthparts.
Nearly all insects hatch from eggs. Insect growth is constrained by the inelastic exoskeleton, so development involves a series of molts. The immature stages often differ from the adults in structure, habit and habitat. Groups that undergo four-stage metamorphosis often have a nearly immobile pupa. Insects that undergo three-stage metamorphosis lack a pupa, developing through a series of increasingly adult-like nymphal stages. The higher level relationship of the insects is unclear. Fossilized insects of enormous size have been found from the Paleozoic Era, including giant dragonfly-like insects with wingspans of 55 to 70 cm (22 to 28 in). The most diverse insect groups appear to have coevolved with flowering plants.
Adult insects typically move about by walking and flying; some can swim. Insects are the only invertebrates that can achieve sustained powered flight; insect flight evolved just once. Many insects are at least partly aquatic, and have larvae with gills; in some species, the adults too are aquatic. Some species, such as water striders, can walk on the surface of water. Insects are mostly solitary, but some, such as bees, ants and termites, are social and live in large, well-organized colonies. Others, such as earwigs, provide maternal care, guarding their eggs and young. Insects can communicate with each other in a variety of ways. Male moths can sense the pheromones of female moths over great distances. Other species communicate with sounds: crickets stridulate, or rub their wings together, to attract a mate and repel other males. Lampyrid beetles communicate with light.
Humans regard many insects as pests, especially those that damage crops, and attempt to control them using insecticides and other techniques. Others are parasitic, and may act as vectors of diseases. Insect pollinators are essential to the reproduction of many flowering plants and so to their ecosystems. Many insects are ecologically beneficial as predators of pest insects, while a few provide direct economic benefit. Two species in particular are economically important and were domesticated many centuries ago: silkworms for silk and honey bees for honey. Insects are consumed as food in 80% of the world's nations, by people in roughly 3000 ethnic groups. Human activities are having serious effects on insect biodiversity.
The word insect comes from the Latin word insectum from in, "cut up",[1] as insects appear to be cut into three parts. The Latin word was introduced by Pliny the Elder who calqued the Ancient Greek word ἔντομον ntomon "insect" (as in entomology) from ἔντομος ntomos "cut in pieces";[2] this was Aristotle's term for this class of life in his biology, also in reference to their notched bodies. The English word insect first appears in 1601 in Philemon Holland's translation of Pliny.[3][4]
In common speech, insects and other terrestrial arthropods are often called bugs.[a] Entomologists to some extent reserve the name "bugs" for a narrow category of "true bugs", insects of the order Hemiptera, such as cicadas and shield bugs.[6] Other terrestrial arthropods, such as centipedes, millipedes, woodlice, spiders, mites and scorpions, are sometimes confused with insects, since they have a jointed exoskeleton.[7] Adult insects are the only arthropods that ever have wings, with up to two pairs on the thorax. Whether winged or not, adult insects can be distinguished by their three-part body plan, with head, thorax, and abdomen; they have three pairs of legs on the thorax.[8]
Estimates of the total number of insect species vary considerably, suggesting that there are perhaps some 5.5 million insect species in existence, of which about one million have been described and named.[9] These constitute around half of all eukaryote species, including animals, plants, and fungi.[10] The most diverse insect orders are the Hemiptera (true bugs), Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), Diptera (true flies), Hymenoptera (wasps, ants, and bees), and Coleoptera (beetles), each with more than 100,000 described species.[9]
Insects form a clade, a natural group with a common ancestor, among the arthropods.[15] A phylogenetic analysis by Kjer et al. (2016) places the insects among the Hexapoda, six-legged animals with segmented bodies; their closest relatives are the Diplura (bristletails).[16]
The internal phylogeny is based on the works of Wipfler et al. 2019 for the Polyneoptera,[17] Johnson et al. 2018 for the Paraneoptera,[18] and Kjer et al. 2016 for the Holometabola.[19] The numbers of described extant species (boldface for groups with over 100,000 species) are from Stork 2018.[9]
Aristotle was the first to describe the insects as a distinct group. He placed them as the second-lowest level of animals on his scala naturae, above the spontaneously generating sponges and worms, but below the hard-shelled marine snails. His classification remained in use for many centuries.[21]
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