Budget bug net?
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cougarmeat
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m-crabb, your first post - welcome to the forum. The choice of bug nets requires some knowledge of the swarm you are concerned with. For example, in High Desert country, my concern isn't so much an "attack" as it might be one noisy critter buzzing around. If I were in Alaska, where I remember the mosquitoes had to file a flight plan with the FAA before they'd take off, and they could stand in for a relic B-52 at Air Shows if the plane couldn't make it, my choices would be different.
One of the least expensive and lightest solutions is the HUG net sold by ArrowHead Equipment. The philosophy is this ... When you are in the hammock, you are protected from below by your underquilt or pad. You are protected from above by your top quilt (assumes hands/arms under the quilt). So the HUG attaches to your hammock RidgeLine (other posts talk about a ridgeline) and drapes down over the hammock sides above your head and shoulders. There's a bit of a shock cord that connects under the hammock to keep the netting in place (not always needed), and sort of an apron that lies on top of the TQ to about mid-torso.
No zippers and about one-quarter the size of full coverage alternatives.
In contrast to that are full coverage, zipper entered, bug net "cocoons" with hammock suspended inside. I don't mean the built-in netting that comes with some hammocks. These are third-party solutions like the Traveler by WarBonnet or the Guardian by ENO. If the sides are pulled away from the hammock a bit, you could sit in the hammock and, with the netting not touching you, still be protected.
Flying pests are an issue because if they are a bother when you are in the hammock, they are often a bother when you are out of the hammock.
So you'll want to look at solutions for that too, like Picaridin for your skin and Permethrin for your clothing (works on bug netting too).
One of the least expensive and lightest solutions is the HUG net sold by ArrowHead Equipment. The philosophy is this ... When you are in the hammock, you are protected from below by your underquilt or pad. You are protected from above by your top quilt (assumes hands/arms under the quilt). So the HUG attaches to your hammock RidgeLine (other posts talk about a ridgeline) and drapes down over the hammock sides above your head and shoulders. There's a bit of a shock cord that connects under the hammock to keep the netting in place (not always needed), and sort of an apron that lies on top of the TQ to about mid-torso.
No zippers and about one-quarter the size of full coverage alternatives.
In contrast to that are full coverage, zipper entered, bug net "cocoons" with hammock suspended inside. I don't mean the built-in netting that comes with some hammocks. These are third-party solutions like the Traveler by WarBonnet or the Guardian by ENO. If the sides are pulled away from the hammock a bit, you could sit in the hammock and, with the netting not touching you, still be protected.
Flying pests are an issue because if they are a bother when you are in the hammock, they are often a bother when you are out of the hammock.
So you'll want to look at solutions for that too, like Picaridin for your skin and Permethrin for your clothing (works on bug netting too).
