{"id":2580,"date":"2020-04-04T11:40:25","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T15:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americangeode.com\/blog\/?p=2580"},"modified":"2020-04-04T11:40:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T15:40:26","slug":"rockhounding-abcs-supplies-to-battle-the-mosquitoes-and-the-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.americangeode.com\/blog\/rockhounding-abcs-supplies-to-battle-the-mosquitoes-and-the-flies\/","title":{"rendered":"Rockhounding ABCs &#8211; \u201cSupplies to Battle the Mosquitoes and the Flies\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cSupplies to Battle the Mosquitoes\nand the Flies\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you are out in the wild, down\nin a mine, out on a hike, exploring an outcrop, and run out of a supply, or\nrealize you forgot something, depending on where in the country you are, there\nwill not be a 7-11, Piggly Wiggly, or Buc-ee\u2019s nearby to make a quick run. With\npreparation however, you can rockhound uninterrupted, and be prepared in\nadvance for the most likely scenarios, as well as the less common scenarios or\nchallenges you may encounter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Imagine finding an outcrop with a\nconcave structure, like a cave but only about 10 feet deep of an interior. We\nfound this structure one time in upstate New York rockhounding in an area known\nfor quartz and pyrite. We flashed our cell-phone flashlight in the crevice and\nsaw walls of quartz crystals. We had hit a jackpot. Then, like something out of\na Harry Potter movie, a thick black opaque form started to rise. A giant swarm\nof mosquitoes! Fortunately, we had packed a plethora of mosquito coils, and\nwere able to light a triangle of coils inside the entrance that dissipated the\nmosquito swarm, enabling us to take a crack at the quartz crystals in peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Plenty of mosquito coils are necessary no matter\nthe locale, season, or weather. Once can form a protective triangle around the\narea where you are mining to clear the air of mosquitoes and other pests. Even\nif you are rockhounding during the day time, the brush and underbrush and\nfoliage is likely full of mosquitoes. <\/li><li>Matches! The mosquito coils require matches, and\nlighting them may take more than one attempt if the day is windy, so pack many\npacks of matches (no pun intended).<\/li><li>Mosquito repellant is still needed to protect\nyou from what could be very harsh and aggressive mosquitoes, not your suburban\nor city style mosquitoes.<\/li><li>Sunscreen is another requirement as chances are\nvery good you will be out in the open air, in the sun, or overcast,\nrockhounding is an outdoors activity, and like most outdoors activities,\nsunscreen is recommended.<\/li><\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSupplies to Battle the Mosquitoes and the Flies\u201d When you are out in the wild, down in a mine, out on a hike, exploring an outcrop, and run out of a supply, or realize you forgot something, depending on where in the country you are, there will not be a 7-11, Piggly Wiggly, or Buc-ee\u2019s &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americangeode.com\/blog\/rockhounding-abcs-supplies-to-battle-the-mosquitoes-and-the-flies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rockhounding ABCs &#8211; \u201cSupplies to Battle the Mosquitoes and the Flies\u201d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,52,101,102,157,156,95,5,32,47,20,94,93,80,79,46,96,158,33,97,159,160],"tags":[76,55,40,78,77,67,3,163,131,133,39,164,84,81,135,4,45],"class_list":["post-2580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antiques","category-antiques-roadshow","category-conservancy","category-environmentalism","category-gem-and-mineral-clubs","category-gem-and-mineral-shows","category-gemstone","category-geodes","category-geology","category-ice-age","category-interior-design","category-jewelry","category-lapidary","category-museums","category-new-york-2","category-paleontology","category-peridot","category-rock-shows","category-science","category-star-wars","category-tucson-gem-and-mineral-show","category-tucson-gem-show","tag-american-geode","tag-diamond","tag-diamonds","tag-gem-and-mineral-club","tag-gem-and-mineral-show","tag-gem-and-mineral-shows","tag-geode","tag-geode-cracking","tag-geodes","tag-geology","tag-herkimer-diamond","tag-indiana-geode","tag-mindat","tag-museums-2","tag-paleontology","tag-rockhound","tag-rockhounding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americangeode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americangeode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americangeode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.americangeode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.americangeode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.americangeode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2581,"href":"http:\/\/www.americangeode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2580\/revisions\/2581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.americangeode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americangeode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.americangeode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.americangeode.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}