Question:

Tarp camping with bugs?

I'm interested in going lighter by camping with a tarp but I'm am used to not having bugs when I sleepMy tent has mesh so bugs can't get in but obviously tarps don'tAny tips other than mosquito netting

Answer:

Because life is not perfect, but calculations are simplified greatly by considering that the surface of a table or wall are planesThat way the area can be calculated by A lw for simeple rectangular tables and wallsOf course they are not rectangular since no angle in real life is exactly a right angleBut again, this simplifies the calculationThe difference between the real areas for the assumed perfectly flat planes and perfect right angles is generally negligibleWe assume each other to be honest, though we both know that we probably tell a few fibs now and thenBut we get along better this way rather than insist each white lie is a major trangressionA little deception makes life workToo much makes fools of ourselves.
I've been using a tarp for many yearsThe tarp I use was made by zpacksIt's made of cuben fiber, it's 8 1/2 feet wide and 11 feet long and weighs 7 ouncesSite selection is an important part of reducing any possible bug problemsDon't really seem to have much more trouble with bugs with the tarp than when I use my tentBugs always seem to get in the tent if they want to I used some netting cut from an old screen room to make doors for the ends of the tarp when set-up as an A frameThe screen attaches with alligator clips to the ends to make the shelter mosquito proof during mosquito seasonI use a Space Blanket clipped on as a solid door in the event of a rainstormMy trekking poles serve as the tent polesThe tarp, screen doors, solid door, and titanium stakes weigh about 10 to 12 ounces total and pack in a stuff bag about the size of a one liter waterbottleJust used my tarp for a hike I recently completed in excess of 370 miles, a little over 30 days.
For all practical purposes, they represent what we understand as a planeNo they are not perfect and other than theoretically nothing ever can be.
If you go by that type of logic, then nothing existsA circle can't be perfectly round, a square can't be perfect, no regular polygons can be equal, etcPerfectly flat has a range.
I trust youin case you appeared horizontally, the horizon would look straight away ahead - completely element along with your eyesalthough, it would not be a sharp line, the floor would 'fade out' having 0 visibility on the horizon; the horizon will be a mode of asymptote', no longer a unique line.

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