Field Evaluation of Deet and a Piperidine Repellent Against Ae&s communis (Diptera: Culicidae) and Simdium venustum (Diptera: Simuliidae) in the Adirondack Mountains of New York

J. Med. Entomol. 37(6): 919-923 (2000) ABSTRACT Repellent efficacy of N,N-diethyl-3-methyl-benzamide (deet), the piperidine, 1-[3cyclohexen-1-ylcarbonyl] -2-methylpiperidine (AI3-37220), and a 1:l ratio of deet + AI3-37220 were evaluated topically (0.25 mglcm’ applied in ethanol solution) on human volunteers against the mosquito Aed+z.s communis (DeGeer) and the black fly Simulium. venusturn Say. The average repellency of all three formulations was >95% at 4 h. For both mosquitoes and black flies, deet alone provided ~90% protection at 6 h, whereas AI3-37220 provided >95% protection. Although repellent treatments were not significantly different overall, the contrasts between AI3-3720 versus deet were significant at 6 and 8 h. The 95% confidence interval on percent repellency at 6 h ranged from 90.1 to 98.9% for AI3-37220 versus 64.3 to 82.2% for deet, and at 8 h ranged 76.1 to 88.5% for AI3-37220 versus 47.8 to 64.0% for deet. Similarly, the confidence interval for protection against black flies at 6 h by (AI3-37220 ranged from 86.3 to 99.5% and did not overlap with the confidence interval provided by deet alone (51.2 to 78.8%). There was no evidence of synergistic repellency from a combination of the two compounds; i.e., protection from combined compounds was no better than either repellent used alone.