G77

What's weird is - the wife, redhead & fair skin, one minor bite all season, my son, blond hair & ultra fair skin, no bites..... me, black hair & fair to mid skin, annihilated!

ann m

G77 - you smell good

G77

Leg is slightly better today, so hoping it's going down...

Not going outside in dusk hours without napalm on till September now!!

Linda P

We have just come back from camping in Waskesiu (Saskatchewan) We arrived on Sat evening and left first thing Monday morning.

I have never seen so many bugs.....my daughter had 12 nasty bites within the hour of being there!!!!!!
You had to run from car to trailer, then start killing anything that had made it's was into the trailer!!!
We went on a 2km hike.....totally awful, we ended up speed walking while waving our caps around disparately trying not to get bitten!!!

Such a shame, as the place was beautiful.

Linda

Dave+Jules

Ice packs will help, just wrap some ice cubes in a tea towel and tie them on. Plus any bite / anti itch creme

G77

Yeah, I was doing that yesterday, seems to have helped, swelling has pretty much gone, just itching like hell now instead....

rae

or interupted

Butch Cassidy

sleep patterns

Dave+Jules

DEET DEET DEET lots of it. Or apparently cider vinegar may help too.

Dave+Jules

They should start reducing mid August has the nights draw in. They go off to find somewhere to hibernate once the level of sunlight drops. Apparently according to Mosquito Scientist on CBC the magic day is August 15th.....

Lets try and keep a count on G77 bite rate and see if it drops

RubyRose

The best remedy to keep mosquitoes away is - vinegar (white or brown) apply copious amounts to your skin and sprinkle it around the house and where ever else you desire and they will not attack. This I learned from my Gran while growing up in South Africa and years later while travelling through Belgium we spent a night in a camp site and my dear son who was then 3 years old was bitten all over, the next day the camp site owner suggested using vinegar and I thought why didn't I think of that, believe you me it works all the time is cheap and less toxic than commercial sprays.

Ruby.

Dave+Jules

And on the plus side you smell like a pickled onion

Linda P

We were covered in deet!!!

Dave+Jules

OK this is the answer to you supersensitive souls.

http://www.bugshirt.com/

Here is the complete line

Linda P

PMSL.....that's what we needed

Linda