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Extremely fine, 3700+ holes/sqin
Other reviewers have claimed this product has a hole count that would be totally inadequate at "200-mesh" or less than 400 holes per square inch. It's possible this reviewer couldn't see the extremely fine fibers. Due to the weave, the mesh has an appearance at a distance of being coarser than it is - what appear to be single holes are actually between 4-6 holes. Or, perhaps these reviewers received a different product than I did - I received what was pictured, the "Equinox MAT705" netting. The Equinox website claims 3700 holes/sqin, and I believe it, because I took photos in macro mode and counted.
My findings (in product photos if you want to doublecheck my work): Around 300 holes in a QUARTER-inch by QUARTER-inch area, which works out to around 4800 holes per square inch.
Due to the weave, there are several shapes and sizes of hole in the netting. I measured the area (in pixels, in my photo) of the largest of these. They worked out to roughly 0.00024 square inches in area. A material made with nothing but these largest holes (and infinitely-thin fibers) would fit 4200 of this size of hole per square inch.
I'm confident this will stop even the tiniest critters. That said, the dimensions of the total piece are indeed rather small. Enough for a couple smallish windows or one standard house window, but that's all.
May 2014 · Patio Lawn and Garden · verified purchase