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Midge defence? (lemmy.world)
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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 (edit: Katrine) (completely forgot it was midge season, so I was unprepared).

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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 10 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€“] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

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