Pop up camping tents are becoming more popular with casual campers and now even accepted by the experts. Add a cot and you’re almost glamping! A pop up camping tent on a cot provides convenience plus the luxury of being off the ground. Camping on cots in army-style, open-air, canvas platform tents is the norm […]
Seen and read: Lifehacks to make summer camp more comfortable. Here are a couple of pictures from Camp Scouthaven in Freedom, NY which is about an hour from Buffalo. Folks coming back to Scouting after 30 years as Scout Leaders say the pop up mosquito nets on cots are a gamechanger as they still have flashbacks […]
Seen and read in the Goshen Scout Reservation rules: You can swat a skeeter but since ALL spiders are supposed to be left alone, having your own spider proof tent may just convince a reluctant kid to actually look forward to attending Camp Goshen! Here are pics of the 1 person screen tents on cots. […]
The SansBug pop up screen tent is a much cheaper alternative to a small heavy glass tank prone to cracking for use as a reptile enclosure. It has fiberglass poles which are lighter than the steel rods (which can also rust) in a grow tent. Bearded dragons taking refuge inside a SansBug to protect them […]
A few photos from Scout Summer Camp Ransburg in Bloomington, Indiana. Thanks for keeping the boys spider free when they slept. The SansBugs worked great! I loved watching the sunset through the tents. Colleen Martin […]
Even a malaria expert needs protection from mosquitoes in Africa. Dr. Amy Bei, a Harvard-trained, Yale professor who speaks a gazillion languages spends her time between Dakar, Senegal and New Haven, CT. When she’s not fighting malaria, she grows and roasts her own coffee in Senegal, knits and weaves, and is working on her pilot […]
It’s that time of the year when the earth springs into life again… but this year there is expected to be a little more activity. A dozen states from NY to IL and south to GA will see billions of cicadas emerge this month or next after spending 17 years underground. They will mate, lay […]
Seen and Read: We’re thrilled that the SansBug mesh tent is being used as a giant insect terrarium to house monarch butterfly caterpillars. Much larger than butterfly cages specifically made for the purpose, the smallest SansBug bug tent can house more than a dozen milkweed plants. Monarch butterflies with their familiar orange and black pattern […]
Toys for little kids… … and toys for BIG kids! But seriously speaking, there are hordes of sandflies, horseflies, black flies and mosquitoes in the swamps, dense bush and forest up north, so the SansBug screen tent is not a toy… it’s a lifesaver. Oh, and if you’re taller than 6 feet, get the […]
We’re thrilled that the SansBug screen tent has been featured in Ask the Gear Guy section of Boys’ Life magazine under… Stuff we Like! The SansBug has helped thousands of Scouts and their parents brave through summer camp. Feedback such as “first time he came home without bites” and “first year he stayed at […]
