Mosticare Volto, Mosquito Head Net
A fine-mesh head net for the outdoor hours, zero chemicals, made to last.
- Pure physical barrier, no permethrin, no chemicals against your face
- Ultra-fine mesh 900 stops mosquitoes, biting midges, and no-see-ums
- Nothing to wear off, so no three-year lifecycle, it lasts as long as the mesh stays intact
An ultra-fine mesh 900 head net worn over a hat or hood to keep mosquitoes and biting midges off the face, neck, and ears during outdoor activity. A pure physical barrier with no permethrin and no chemical treatment of any kind, so nothing sits against the skin of your face. Because nothing is impregnated into the mesh, there is nothing to wear off: the Volto keeps protecting for as long as the mesh stays intact, with no three-year lifecycle limit. From 20 g packed, European design.
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, people whose working hours don't end when the mosquitoes come out. The Mosticare Volto is built for those hours: an ultra-fine head net worn over a wide-brim hat or a hood, putting a clean physical barrier between the mosquitoes and the face, neck, and ears while the hands stay free to do the work, and putting no chemistry against the skin at all. 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 as an ultra-fine mesh 900, a far tighter weave than a standard bed net (roughly 900 holes per square inch), fine enough to stop not just mosquitoes but biting midges and no-see-ums that slip straight through coarser nets. Neither variant is treated with permethrin or any other insecticide. The Volto is a pure physical barrier: the protection is the fineness of the weave, with no chemistry anywhere near the face. And because there is no treatment to deplete, there is no three-year lifecycle, the Volto keeps working for as long as the mesh stays intact.
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 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 removes that chemistry load entirely. There is no permethrin and no treatment of any kind: the mesh is fine enough to stop the insect on its own, so the chemistry problem simply disappears and the face stays clean, breathing normal outdoor air, with nothing impregnated into the fabric resting against the skin.
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.
- Rinse it by hand in cool water only if it needs it, and air-dry in shade. There is no treatment to protect and the mesh does not get dirty in normal use, so washing is rarely needed.
- There is no insecticide to wear off, so the Volto has no three-year lifecycle: looked after, it keeps protecting your face from bites for as long as the mesh stays intact, effectively indefinitely.
Every claim on this page is traceable to a standard or an independent test.
- No chemical treatment, the Volto carries no permethrin and no biocide. It is not a treated article, so no biocidal-product authorization applies, the barrier is purely the fineness of the mesh, worn directly against the face.
- Ultra-fine mesh 900, roughly 900 holes per square inch, a far tighter weave than a standard bed net, fine enough to stop mosquitoes, biting midges, and no-see-ums.
- No lifecycle limit, with no insecticide to deplete there is no three-year replacement cycle, the Volto keeps protecting for as long as the mesh stays intact.
- Designed in Europe for gardeners, fieldworkers, anglers, foresters, and travellers whose hours don't end when the mosquitoes arrive.
Before you decide.
Can I see clearly through the mesh?
Will it fit over my hat?
Is it treated with permethrin or any chemical?
How long does it last? Does it have a lifecycle like the treated nets?
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 does exactly that with no chemistry at all: a fine mesh between the mosquito and the face, anywhere the mosquitoes get to you first.