If anyone has any good tips on beating the midges, please share them!

I got absolutely devoured this weekend up by Loch Latrine (edit: Katrine) (completely forgot it was midge season, so I was unprepared).

  • Hossenfeffer@feddit.ukEnglish
    13·
    12 days ago

    In the company of my family, I can only find some small comfort in the evident fact that I protect them by being so fucking delicious that the little flying bastards are gagging for a piece of me and so ignore them. And no, I am not prepared to be a ritual sacrifice for you and yours as well. Fuck, I hate the midges.

    • AlpacaChariot@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      4·
      12 days ago

      I’ve been reading up on them and apparently the females bite to feed on blood in order to mature their eggs, which they can lay & hatch in 24h…so if you’re in one place for more than a day it may actually get progressively worse.

      “I was a hossenfeffer biter, like my mother, and my mother’s mother, and my mother’s mother’s mother…”

  • Obi@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    12 days ago

    I’ve not tried it myself but when researching stuff like this (mostly for my wife, she gets targeted) I saw a lot of people raving about these chemical disperser devices from Thermacells. They’re supposedly safe and pretty eco-friendly though personally I’m still having troubles believing that when talking about a device that clears all insects in a 15m radius within a few minutes and lasts for hours.

    • Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone
      2·
      12 days ago

      Thermacells are amazing, I live in Northern Australia in humid hot horrible places.

      When we go fishing we take one on the boat and it keeps them away.

      Now if they could make one for crocodiles too, then we would be set

  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.ukEnglish
    2·
    12 days ago

    I always get eaten alive, luckily my antihistamines stop most bites punching through (but when they do… Oh boy!). I always find the only solution is insect repellent.