Dealing with ants while hunting?

[Marc]

We have some awful red ants where I hunt here in California (not as bad as fire ants, but still very unpleasant)...

I am hoping that someone has a better way of dealing with them than I do (which is to jump up in pain, frantically swatting myself, generally just as a bird is coming to the gun)...

Bites are painful, and frequently ants are around all the trees that I would sit on... 

Any sprays or repellents that work? 

I am guessing that I will just have to live with them, but wondering if any of you out there have come up with any cool tricks to deal with them.

[jblackburn]

No help on how to repel them (doubt there is anything), but it seems like ole Gooserbat has a story to tell about SE Oklahoma fire ants from this season! 

[Marc]

Fire ants are nasty stuff...

Had an experience with them in Florida while in school there...  Fishing a canal off a main highway, and I had no problem removing my pants and jumping into a canal that I had just seen a large gator in...

I hoped that maybe someone had a little trick...  I have thought about ant spray...  There was a downed tree this season that would make for a perfect hide and a great place to take a child, but loaded with red ants...

Got into red ants on multiple occasions this season, and ruined an opportunity for my father to kill his first turkey ever.

[HogBiologist]

 Carry a can of deep woods off. Spray a ring around you when you sit down. They won't cross the line.

[DirtNap647]

good idea right there 

[Gamblinman]

Carry a can of deep woods off. Spray a ring around you when you sit down. They won't cross the line.

and spray the tree you're leaning against.

Gman