The BugsAway Travel sock provides long-lasting, effective and convenient insect protection, and wicks moisture to keep your feet dry and cool. They also have arch support construction. Permethrin, the active ingredient in Insect Shield, is invisible, odorless, and tightly bonded to the fabric fibers, and lasts the expected lifetime of the garment (70 washes). It repels mosquitoes (including those carrying West Nile virus and malaria), ticks, ants, flies, chiggers and midges (no-see-ums). Do not dry clean.