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Midge defence? (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

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

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 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..."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

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