Mosquito head net

[sniper 55]

I'm a long suffering victim of horsefly muggings, the little b*****d's love me, and I hate them. Seriously I've been out with 3 mates and I'm covered in them and my 3 mates are falling about laughing at be shouting "gerrofyouf-ingsblighters" Anyway I bought myself a mossie headnet and tried it out on Pen-y-fan today. Good job I did the top was covered in miges and loads of the dreaded horse flies on the way up and down.
I looked a bit odd but I haven't got any bites... unlike my son who laughed at me, he's covered in bites.
Well worth a couple of quid off fleabay.

[Jamesey1981]

I have one that I got from mountain warehouse for a couple of quid on their Black Friday sale.
Handy thing to have, can even use it for other things, like leaching the tannins out of acorns.

[ukpreppergrrl]

Oh good call!! My blood appears to be ambrosia to small biting insects (looked like I'd been attacked by a psychotic hole punch when I returned from Finland! ) and am heading off to West Scotland shortly where I am sure the local midge are already plastering posters advertising the new party keg coming to town. Does one need to wear a hat underneath?

[Yorkshire Andy]

Get some Avon Skin so soft moisturizer

[Brambles]

Get some Avon Skin so soft moisturizer

Yep, that's the stuff of legend. Even the Marines use it.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/avon-s-spr ... -1-1403152

[jansman]

I might just do that after fishing on the river yesterday.I have three mossie bites and I watched ,WATCHED! The horsefly sting my shoulder! What my shoulder looks like defies description. Mrs J says I should drink gin and tonic like the old Raj.I hate gin.They obviously like bitter and red wine!

[Deeps]

I'm not sure how it works, while I wasn't immune when in my teens/20's I didn't seem to get bitten as bad as a lot of mates. Roll on a year or 20 and even with an onion and garlic rich diet I seem to be flavour of the month. Apparently the mild winter has made it midgietastic Ukpreppergrrl.

On the skin so soft front, the last time I used it it didn't seem to work as well although it was quite an old bottle so maybe an active ingredient had weakened. Have historically sworn by it.

[sniper 55]

Get some Avon Skin so soft moisturizer

I shall try that, I used to use the good old fashoned deet, although the horseflys seem more concerned about my blood than the deet.
Trouble is that stuff used to melt most plastics, and I've usually got some really expensive plastic kit with me I don't want melted.
Thanks for the replies everybody.

[ukpreppergrrl]

Get some Avon Skin so soft moisturizer

Been there, tried it, if anything it made more more attractive as now I smelled nice! I've worn repellents that have my eyes watering and the foliage around me wilting and I've still been bitten - I reacted so badly, in fact, that the doctor asked me where I'd been to get such a bite! Essex was the reply The only thing I've found that works with mosquitos is a high pitched whiny thing a friend picked up for me in Texas. I believe it represents the noise a horny male mosquito makes and the female mosquitos, who are the only ones that bite, go off searching for some hanky panky rather than tucking into me. However I suspect that on midges it would be the equivalent of expecting the sound of a a moose in heat to interest a gorilla, and it isn't going to make a Scottish midge waver in its plan to party on down at my expense!

Midge head net ordered, and some Smidge just in case!!

[ukpreppergrrl]

Mrs J says I should drink gin and tonic like the old Raj.I hate gin.They obviously like bitter and red wine!

No probs J! The memsahib is only partly correct. It's not the gin it's the quinine in the tonic that does the trick! Not sure it actually stops them from biting but it does help with the malaria afterwards!