avon skin so soft is crap imo.
+1, too true...I was once sluthered in the stuff but was still eaten alive by the buggers! The smell of it becomes sickening after a few days too.
aw aye, make sure your tent mesh is small enough to stop midges, last time I went camping(in august at loch eck, fierce!) my mate took one of those cheap lightwieght festival tents! big mistake, the mesh was effective as fish net tights!
Its the dampness, apparently they don't like it when it's too wet or too dry, but when there is a certain amount of wetness in the ground, it's their ideal breeding conditions.. it's why levels can be worse one week to the next. there is also a temperature range that they like best aswell, which I can't remember.Surely not that different to the rest of the UK but why is it such a problem?
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Been here twenty years now and no love here for smidge or SSS.
Most days there's enough wind to keep em down if you pick your site, when you really need it a decent net or jacket is all that works. And a tent with a decent net for when you get the hump wearing them and need somewhere to regain a bit of sanity.
Skin SO Soft drowns them...
Smidge, only way to survive sitting in the forest on a sunny day, marshalling at the World Cup in Fort William.
That or a midge machine if you have the space... can you hire these anywhere ?
Quick google and answered my own question... my mate has one in her garden and they do work and are very effective
http://www.midge-machines.co.uk/
As per others - Smidge and a head net. Taking up smoking red full strength Marlboro helps too.
Mosquito coils work.
