On 4th of July the skeeters were just thick where we sat (on the high school lawn) to watch the big fireworks show here in our little town. I had just bought some Burt's Bees herbal bug repellant and we all tried it out...big thumbs up!!! it worked great. So nice to find an herbal thing that works well and smells good too. So..just so you know..it worked for us!