Okay guys how do we stop midgies draining my blood and leaving me in rash,whats best?

Question

In Scotland they absolutely love me please help!!

Answer 1

Have you tried putting neat tea tree oil on your skin. It works in Brum (but Scottish midges are a superbreed so I'm told).

Answer 2

Lavender oil on your skin. Plant lavender in your garden.

A friend found fahrenheit aftershave used to keep them away.

Answer 3

The real problem here - apart from the midgies - is that one solution that works for one individual does not work for all.

Not only that. The midgies are different from one glen to the next.

The best thing to do is make a collection of all the remedies and try them on yourself, either one after the other, or all together, if you can stand the smell.

Garlic eaten, and rubbed on the skin, seemed to work for me. Or at least it did last year, where I was, at that time.

There are no guarantees. Why do you think the Romans failed to add Scotland to their empire?  Yes - thank the midge.

Answer 4

Sounds extreme but it works, try cutting a clove of garlic in half and rubbing it on your arms.

Answer 5

Take a used dryer sheet from the laundry and stick it in your belt or waist band. Insects really don't like smells that we humans like. If your friends ask you what you are doing just tell them they are buggy.

Answer 6

alan, be brave eat agarlic clove every day, the chew stalks of parsley u may lose some friends no just pulling your leg freshners these days will give u fresh breath but u will not be a snack any more. popa

Answer 7

i recently moved to the west of Ireland and had never encountered these foul beasties before as i am a Londoner. they were eating me alive until the local pharmacist told me about garlic capsules, they hate the smell and leave me alone. give it a try.

Answer 8

Always get your insect repellant spray/cream from a good camping shop - never the chemists - the majority of the ones we have seen in chemists are actually scented! Use it as described, we have found they work just fine (even in Scotland!)

Answer 9

Avon Skin-so-Soft Dry Oil spray.  This is the stuff http://avonshop.co.uk/shop/product.asp?s...

Don't know why is works so well, but it does.  Trust me - I used to get eaten alive!  It has a kind of citrus smell - so OK for boys/men too.  It's not girly

Answer 10

Eat lots of garlic bread and run about shouting the following:

Aye an’ a bit of mackeral settler rack and ruin

Ran it doon by the haim, ’ma place

Well I slapped me and I slapped it doon in the side

And I cried, cried, cried.

The fear a fallen down taken never back the raize and then craig marion,

Get out wi’ ye claymore out mi pocket a’ ran doon, doon the middin stain

Picking the fiery horde that was fallen around ma feet.

Never he cried, never shall it ye get me alive

Ye rotten hound of the burnie crew. well I snatched fer the blade o my

Claymore cut and thrust and I fell doon before him round his feet.

Aye! a roar he cried frae the bottom of his heart that I would nay fall

But as dead, dead as ’a can be by his feet; de ya ken?