No mention of the use of mud to keep mosquitoes away

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Claim: Bear doesn't use mud to keep mosquitoes away, and should have.

In Costa Rica, Bear doesn't once make mention of the time-honored tradition of applying mud to your skin to keep mosquitoes away when repellants are not available.[1][2][3] It requires no fire, no particular plants to burn, or anything -- just common mud. A mix of mud and ashes is also a home remedy for existing bites.[4][5] On the downside, the mud in some places can be itchy in its own right.

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Oppose: mud does not keep mosquitos away. they are attracted to the carbonmonoxide in your breathe. i assume it would only really prevent them from penetrating your skin

Support: Same difference. And it's dioxide, not monoxide.

Support: And isn't the goal to keep them from penetrating your skin any way? Sure they're annoying but the annoying itchyness and the deadly diseases come from the bite. And Carbonmonoxide is toxic and kills you. If they're being attracted to that you have better things to worry about.

Oppose: The claim is that it keeps mosquitos away, it does not, you're changing the claim to "it keeps them from penetrating your skin/stinging you" (and he did mention that in another episode).

Neutral: As has been pointed out before, mosquitoes are attracted to the carbon dioxide exhaled by animals. Carbon monoxide should not even be part of this discussion.

• Neutral: The CO2 argument is relevant as it's stated above that "mud keep mosquitoes away" when the mud actually protects you from the bites they inflict.

Observation: if this is the same episode that I'm thinking of, that I just watched, then near the end of the episode, when he's going through the THICK brush extremely slowly, and notices mosquitoes around, he does apply mud to his face and neck, and states that you should apply mud to your skin to keep the mosquitoes from penetrating your skin. Maybe it was a second-edit episode, or maybe they air different episodes in different countries (I'm in Canada), but I clearly remember him being in a rainforest, traversing a waterfall (With a strong vine made in to a harness, that actually fails on him as he plummets 30ft to the water below), and eventually applying the mud to his skin, near the end.

Oppose: He already did that in another episode sometimes he doesnt do the same thing twice, either he will try something different or he doesnt want to sound repetitive I guess

Support: You are wrong. At the time the Costa Rica episode was made, Bear had never demonstrated using mud as protection against mosquitoes. It was only well AFTER this article was written that he demonstrated that technique. Maybe Bear has been reading this information on this site to learn some real survival skills.