Mosticare Volto — Mosquito Head Net
A certified head net for the outdoor hours.
- Factory-impregnated permethrin — bound into the fibre, never sprayed
- Three-year effective lifecycle under normal use
- Ships with recycled-cotton carry sachet and deployment card
A WHO-prequalified head net worn over a hat or hood to keep mosquitoes off the face, neck, and ears during outdoor activity. Polyester mesh at 156-count density, permethrin-treated, from 20 g packed. Three-year effective lifecycle — the certified head net for dusk gardening, fieldwork, hiking, fishing, allotment hours, and any outdoor time where the mosquitoes get to you first.
The bed canopy covers the hours of sleep. Everything else happens outside of it. A gardener pruning at dusk in an Ardèche garrigue. A fieldworker on a river survey in the Camargue. An angler on a Scottish loch at midge hour. A biologist counting birds at the edge of a wetland in the Po delta. A forester, a surveyor, a photographer, a long-distance trekker in jungle regions — people whose working hours don't end when the mosquitoes come out. The Mosticare Volto is built for those hours: a WHO-prequalified head net worn over a wide-brim hat or a hood, keeping the certified physical barrier between the mosquitoes and the face, neck, and ears while the hands stay free to do the work. Two variants — Volto Medio (compact, barely-there) and Volto Pop (pop-up, structured, higher-visibility) — cover the full range of outdoor use.
What these nets are, exactly
The Volto Medio is a compact head-and-shoulders net at L 45 × H 30 cm deployed, packed weight 20 g. It slips into a pocket or a field-vest loop and deploys as a simple drawstring-closed hood over any hat.
The Volto Pop is a structured pop-up head net at L 55 × H 30 cm, packed weight 100 g. Its internal sprung rim holds the mesh away from the face, preserving peripheral visibility during longer outdoor sessions — the right choice when the mesh touching the skin becomes a distraction after an hour of fieldwork.
Both are knitted from durable 75-denier polyester at a 156-count density (25 holes per cm²) — the same WHO-prequalified mesh used across the full Mosticare range. Both are factory-impregnated with permethrin at 9 g/kg (0.9% w/w) — a WHO-recommended pyrethroid bound into the yarn during manufacture rather than sprayed on. Both are WHO-prequalified as long-lasting insecticidal textiles and authorized under the EU Biocidal Products Regulation (authorization EU 0026815-0000 2035).
Why a physical barrier is the right approach outdoors
The outdoor options have always been skin chemistry. DEET on the forearms and neck. Picaridin on the cheekbones and ears. Citronella sprays that wear off in an hour. Repellent-impregnated clothing that needs refreshing every few washes. These have a role — but none of them do what a physical barrier does: put a certified mesh between the mosquito and the skin, without re-application, without wearing off in sweat, and without loading the face with a chemistry you then scratch and rub into the eyes.
The Volto collapses that chemistry load into a single worn textile. The permethrin impregnated into its fibre reinforces the barrier at the point of contact, bound into the yarn at a deliberately minimal dose — not sprayed onto the face — so the chemistry stays on the outside of the mesh while the face stays clean, breathing normal outdoor air.
Who it's for
The Volto Medio is for short outdoor sessions where packability matters: a dusk walk through garrigue, a half-hour of weeding, a stop at a viewpoint, an evening at a bar terrace in tiger-mosquito territory. At 20 g it slips into a jeans pocket or the chest pocket of a field vest.
The Volto Pop is for sustained outdoor work where face clearance matters: a full morning of gardening, a fieldwork shift counting or measuring or photographing, a long trekking day through forest or wetland, or any situation where the mesh touching the skin would become a distraction after an hour.
Bed-sleep protection should use a Mosticare Cubo / Rondo / Traccia / Domo Pop / Amaca instead; the Volto is a worn-on-the-head net for outdoor activity, not for sleep. Infant face protection in a pram uses the Mosticare Bambino Carello (fits the stroller, not the child's head).
How to use it well
The Volto is designed to go on in seconds and come off just as fast.
- Volto Medio: wear over a wide-brim hat, a baseball cap, or any hood; pull the drawstring at the neck to close the hem against the collar or chest.
- Volto Pop: pop the sprung rim open, drop over the head, close the neck hem against the shirt collar; the rim holds the mesh clear of the face.
- Always wear over a closed-collar shirt or pulled-up hood — mosquitoes will find the gap at the neck if it's open.
- Inspect the mesh for snags before each outing; repair small damage with the Mosticare Net Repair Kit.
- Hand-wash on a cool gentle cycle with mild detergent; follow WHO long-lasting-net guidance of no more than 20 washes over the net's useful life; air-dry in shade.
- Expect a three-year effective protection lifecycle across normal outdoor use.
Every claim on this page is traceable to a standard or an independent test.
- WHO-prequalified long-lasting insecticidal textile — both Volto variants share current listing on the World Health Organization Prequalification programme for vector control, the gold-standard specification referenced by the WHO, UNICEF, and the Global Fund.
- EU Biocidal Products Regulation (BPR) — authorization EU 0026815-0000 2035 — both variants are formally authorized for market release across the European Union as treated articles.
- 156-count mesh / 25 holes per cm² — the structural mesh density used across the WHO long-lasting-net category for mosquito bite prevention.
- 75-denier polyester fibre, independently tested — for seam strength, mesh integrity, and wash resistance across the full three-year lifecycle.
Before you decide.
Can I see clearly through the mesh?
Will it fit over my hat?
Is it safe to breathe through all day?
Can I use it while eating or drinking?
Is it effective in midge-heavy Scottish or Scandinavian summers?
Mosticare exists to protect people from the world's deadliest animal — and from the outdoor nuisance insects that come with the same evenings — without poisoning the skin in contact with them. The Volto is a quiet, certified way to do that anywhere the mosquitoes get to you first.