How do you stop yourself getting eaten alive when in a bivvy bag and your too warm so you stick a limb out to cool down?

Smidge

**** tonnes of tropical grade deet.

I have a rather elaborate bivvy bag with a mesh door behind the main door.

Go camping with me.

You’ll be entirely unmolested by insects whilst I look like a bloke with a swarm of bees on him.

B&B

Pee on yourself before going to bed, I’m almost sure this will work.

That and loads of repellent though i’d not use deet anywhere near my bivvy bag.

Burn some mosquito coils around the tent and one inside before going to bed. But don’t sleep with the coil burning as it will give you a bad chest – guess how I know this?

Oh…. it’s a bivvy. Try mossie coils anyway.

Cider, then brandy – for you, not the midges. You won’t notice a thing*

*until later

Tent

BUSHMANS!*

*may or may not melt passports, plastic spoons, and/or small children.

Deet, but don’t get it on anything except your skin as it melts through any and all matter.

Once I tell you this you will never look back…

Avon skin so soft dry oil.

It’s applied as a dry oil moisturiser so the midge can’t actually bite through that layer and it has citronella which they hate also. It’s a well know secret in special forces and armies that operate in midge zones. Google it.

Using it for years and barely get bitten, use to be tormented by them. Deet and all the other stuff just never worked for me.

Have you tried ‘Smidge’?

+1 for Avon skin so soft. It really does work!

Up on the ridges away from the midges

What if the OP is talking about bears? 😉

special forces and armies that operate in midge zones

Pray for us – we’re going in

What if the OP is talking about bears?

If he’s got time to post on STW while being eaten by bears, then he has his priorities seriously out of whack!

Could explain why he hasn’t posted back yet though….

Infantry officer here – skin so soft is ok against your run of the mill variety midges, but you’ll need deet to make a solid difference if you’re going somewhere deeply infested.

Better yet, change your plans. Midges are shit.

I’ve never had any success with Skin so soft despite all the Special Forces guff. Stuff with lots of Deet works and Smidge seems to be the best of the non-plasticmelty varieties.

It has to be applied thickly and regularly. Remember, it’s a barrier not a repellant. It was acceptable until Smidge was available, now there’s no need for it.