this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2024
34 points (100.0% liked)

Ask UK

1213 readers
2 users here now

Community for asking and answering any question related to the life, the people or anything related to the UK.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
tom@feddit.uk
34
Midge defence? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world to c/askuk@feddit.uk
20 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

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).

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] AlpacaChariot@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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..."

[โ€“] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 3 points 3 months ago

I've always been irresistible to the 'ladies'.