Short story about Thermocell... I was down in Georgia hunting deer with Terry Green. He gifted me a Thermocell the first day.
I built a blind from palm fronds next to a cypress and put the unit under my stool. I expected to be carried away by the skeeters. Terry said it wasn't a swamp but it looked like a dam swamp to me!
Well, after an hour I'd only seen a few mosquitoes and figured they weren't as bad as Terry had told me.
Then I stepped away from my blind about ten feet to answer nature's call. Holy crap!!! I about got airborne from the bazillions of little beating wings and the weight loss from losing about a half gallon of blood to the little suckers.
I finished as quickly as possible and hurried back over to my blind figuring that now that they'd found me they'd follow and finish me off.
Not so. My little haven around the Thermocell was skeeter free and I learned an important lesson about "gizmos" that day.