Fly spray on canvas, wive's tale or no no.

I have been told to do two things with my new tent.
1. Drown it several times to seal it, and
2. don't put flyspray near the canvas.

This guy was in the canvas business. I believe him!!

Indeed - only things on canvas are water and a brush for cleaning - nothing else at all - nothing - not even detergent - it won't wreck the canvas, but it will leave a stain for sure ! (detergent does!).

I recently camped for one night at the Kimberley Entrance Caravan Park in Derby. I awoke the next morning to find the tent totally covered in tiny Singapore ants. During the night they had eaten about one hundred pin-holes through the canvas of my near new $1200 tent. I tried shaking and brushing them off, but there were too many, so I bought a can of fly/insect spray and in a not very happy mood by now, emptied the entire contents onto them (and the tent). When I arrived home, I set the tent up and gave it a couple of soakings with water, and it appears that the spray hasnt affected it at all.... I suppose time will tell.
Drew