Insect repellents

[Andy_1984]

ive heard realy good things about Citronela oil.

 

just a small amount around your collar and sleeves, and perhaps your trousers zipper. dont put it on your skin ive heard if it goes in your eyes its not going to be pleasant.

 

a friend used it at fat boy slim concert in loch ness, he said you could actualy see the midges coming toward you and quikly swerve away from him. need to get some before the midges come out in force

[chesters1]

Got to say I tend to react VERY badly with Mozzy bites!! Even been hospitalized in the past due to them!

 

I used one of the little electronic things a couple of years ago and got just the one bite in around 3 weeks of fishing at a time when everyone got bitten. So in my opinion WELL worth trying! Sold a lot be the HK sellers on Ebay.

 

i did read somewhere that female mozzies were deaf (and its only females that drink blood) so not sure if the electronic ones work (it could be they work using some other tech niche rather than soundwaves)?

also on the subject of biting things has anyone ever caught a fly in those £10 "ultra violet" zappers you can buy? plenty of mozzies and small moths but never a fly yet and they damn bite as well

 

instead of choking (and probably harmfull) fly sprays use spray starch and watch them glide to earth

Edited May 9, 2007 by chesters1

[Andy Macfarlane]

Another good tip is to take some sturdy elastic bands and put them round the cuffs of your jacket/jumper. It stops the wee blighters biting the hell out of your arms. A baseball cap and a midge net is pretty handy also.

[Chris Plumb]

ive heard realy good things about Citronela oil.

 

 

I found Citronella rubbish - so much so that I got convinced it was actually attracting the blighters!! Never again!

 

 

C.

[bloomin'reedsbarnard]

i find toast and a healthy helping of marmite really does keep the mozzies off, I went fishing the other night, everyone got bitten except me

[chesters1]

i think they are attracted to CO2 so just hold your breath as one approaches, not sure elastic bands work i got bitten through a chair and teashirt by a monster ,as i jumped i must have bent its sucker so i could exact vengeance because it couldnt get it back out of the chair.

[Newt]

Hi bloomin'reed.... Marmite certainly might do the job since it is very high in the member of the vitamin B complex that seems to repel them.

[chesters1]

you might be right Newt ,never saw a jar of Marmite with malaria yet!

[bloomin'reedsbarnard]

That settles it then....cover ourselves in marmite and get licked to death by rats

[Newt]

Nope. You either have to eat the marmite directly or else after the rats have licked it off, you have to kill and eat the rats.