Anyone else suffer from fly bites/fly interest?
Discussion
I get nipped your bog standard house fly too. The ex reckoned that their mouth parts were too small to bite and I was imagining it...
Until we went to Western Scotland one June and met the midges. I felt the bites but she, being a pale skinned ginger turned into a lobster.
Mouthparts too small? Okay.
Until we went to Western Scotland one June and met the midges. I felt the bites but she, being a pale skinned ginger turned into a lobster.
Mouthparts too small? Okay.
Near Loch Linne we encountered veil wearers whose tents were fully netted too... I thought it was some weird religious sect.
Skin So Soft did zip, as did other 'remedies' including eating garlic and beetroot. We were in a motorhome and the little s
ts were tiny enough to fly straight through the mesh flyscreen.
I did some research. It's the females that bite and they like the CO2 you breathe out.
Tip 1: avoid fresh water at dusk.
Tip 2: I bought two battery powered fly zappers. I had to clean the grids every 20mins but that learned thousands.. It was carnage.
Skin So Soft did zip, as did other 'remedies' including eating garlic and beetroot. We were in a motorhome and the little s
ts were tiny enough to fly straight through the mesh flyscreen. I did some research. It's the females that bite and they like the CO2 you breathe out.
Tip 1: avoid fresh water at dusk.
Tip 2: I bought two battery powered fly zappers. I had to clean the grids every 20mins but that learned thousands.. It was carnage.
I used to suffer everytime i got bit, even needed hospital treatment once. Then someone recomended using tiger balm (red) on the bite, brilliant stuff takes away the itching straight away and the swlling after a day or so.
never had an infection since.
never had an infection since.
Edited by caterhamboy on Sunday 9th July 20:49
davhill said:
I get nipped your bog standard house fly too. The ex reckoned that their mouth parts were too small to bite and I was imagining it...
Until we went to Western Scotland one June and met the midges. I felt the bites but she, being a pale skinned ginger turned into a lobster.
Mouthparts too small? Okay.
Those kind of flies don't have the right parts to "bite" a human, or any animal. Their mouth is like a pad and tube for sucking up liquids, no piercing parts.Until we went to Western Scotland one June and met the midges. I felt the bites but she, being a pale skinned ginger turned into a lobster.
Mouthparts too small? Okay.
Near Loch Linne we encountered veil wearers whose tents were fully netted too... I thought it was some weird religious sect.
Skin So Soft did zip, as did other 'remedies' including eating garlic and beetroot. We were in a motorhome and the little sts were tiny enough to fly straight through the mesh flyscreen.
I did some research. It's the females that bite and they like the CO2 you breathe out.
Tip 1: avoid fresh water at dusk.
Tip 2: I bought two battery powered fly zappers. I had to clean the grids every 20mins but that learned thousands.. It was carnage.
Skin So Soft did zip, as did other 'remedies' including eating garlic and beetroot. We were in a motorhome and the little s
ts were tiny enough to fly straight through the mesh flyscreen. I did some research. It's the females that bite and they like the CO2 you breathe out.
Tip 1: avoid fresh water at dusk.
Tip 2: I bought two battery powered fly zappers. I had to clean the grids every 20mins but that learned thousands.. It was carnage.
davhill said:
Tip 2: I bought two battery powered fly zappers. I had to clean the grids every 20mins but that learned thousands.. It was carnage.
I do this, every so often when numbers rise. Leave the kitchen doors open in the evening with the light on, let the most active mosquitos fly in.Then the door closes behind them, and the Executioner Zapper comes to say hello 
There's a science behind how tasty you appear to insects and some of it is genetic. Link to Vogue mag
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