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Midges

Doltanian

I got absolutely ate alive by these monsters from the depths of hell this evening. I have some sort of midge fever and it triggered severe hayfever and allergies now.

I still feel like I'm been bitten even though it was like 3hrs ago.

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Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

Think they prefer to be known as dwarves.

Beyondgone

They're small, they're bitey, when they're out it's shytey.
You just can't spot 'em, they'll bite yer bottom.
So stay inside, be warm and hide,
'cos if you go outside, you'll know you've gottem..

Chester Copperpot

Doltanian wrote: »

I got absolutely ate alive by these monsters from the depths of hell this evening. I have some sort of midge fever and it triggered severe hayfever and allergies now.

I still feel like I'm been bitten even though it was like 3hrs ago.

Some of them could still be in your hair or clothes so could very well still be biting you

Persephone kindness

oh you poor thing. They don't like me for some reason.

Doltanian

Chester Copperpot wrote: »

Some of them could still be in your hair or clothes so could very well still be biting you

First thing I did after getting back home was jump in the shower.

Walter E GO

Doltanian wrote: »

I got absolutely ate alive by these monsters from the depths of hell this evening. I have some sort of midge fever and it triggered severe hayfever and allergies now.

I still feel like I'm been bitten even though it was like 3hrs ago.

Take some antihistamine. Piriton should work and calm the feeling of still been bit.

bee06

My husband calls them midgets! Drives me crazy for some reason.

AllForIt

The last two summers the prevalence of them was as bad as I've ever seen. I think the wetter the summer the worse they are. Absolutely abhor the things especially when I'm cycling or running.

Eyes Down Field

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIHLTKGyJ58

Chester Copperpot

AllForIt wrote: »

The last two summers the prevalence of them was as bad as I've ever seen. I think the wetter the summer the worse they are. Absolutely abhor the things especially when I'm cycling or running.

Donegal has to be the worst place in Ireland for them , especially glenveagh castle. Scotland is in a league of its own through. The skies get black with the swarms of them that descend

Glenster

Doltanian wrote: »

I got absolutely ate alive by these monsters from the depths of hell this evening. I have some sort of midge fever No you dont and it triggered severe hayfever and allergies now. No it didn't

Boggers are obsessed with midges.

AllForIt

Chester Copperpot wrote: »

Donegal has to be the worst place in Ireland for them , especially glenveagh castle. Scotland is in a league of its own through. The skies get black with the swarms of them that descend

In Istanbul in the evenings you'd see trucks with huge plumes of white smoke emitting from them such that you could't see anything for a few minutes if one was walking on the pavement as it passed. It was an insecticide to kill the mosquitoes.

sligojoek

Don't let Joe Duffy hear ye.

They're called, "People of diminutive stature".

dodderangler

Midges don't bother me. But them horseflies are worse than death. They attack with knives and forks. And wasps are back and scaring the man out of me.

Persephone kindness

I wonder why they go after some people and not others? I have never been bitten or stung by anything.

foxy farmer

If you've ever driven a tractor at night with work lights on and a window open you'll know there's another type of annoying flying fooker out there.
A type of fly that swarm and go hyper around the lights and eventually wind up in the cab with you. They will be flying around in the dark bumping into you. You'll be flailing blindly swatting them but more often than not hitting yourself around the head as they glance off your head or get stuck in your hair. Thankfully they don't bite but they are a fecking nuisance.

RobertKK

http://www.irishamericanmom.com/2012/01/17/the-infamous-irish-midge-something-in-the-air-every-irish-tourist-should-know-about/

Female midges bite, and only the pregnant ones.

donegaLroad

Chester Copperpot wrote: »

Donegal has to be the worst place in Ireland for them , especially glenveagh castle. Scotland is in a league of its own through. The skies get black with the swarms of them that descend

Last night was the worst I have ever experienced.. they were even able to withstand the wind which is not usual. I lit a citronella candle and put it beside where I was working, still no good. They were like piranhas last night.

Persephone kindness

RobertKK wrote: »

http://www.irishamericanmom.com/2012/01/17/the-infamous-irish-midge-something-in-the-air-every-irish-tourist-should-know-about/

Female midges bite, and only the pregnant ones.

lol

donegaLroad

Persephone kindness wrote: »

I wonder why they go after some people and not others? I have never been bitten or stung by anything.

apparently its a person's carbon levels. High carbon level attracts midges.

Chuchote

donegaLroad wrote: »

apparently its a person's carbon levels. High carbon level attracts midges.

Met a man in Cyprus who said the mosquito bites there don't bother him at all. But he went to Cuba and he was eaten alive, came out with big huge pus-filled bumps from those commies.

You can get a thing called After Bite - a stick that dabs on ammonia - which lessens the misery if you put it on straightaway after a mosquito or midge bite.

van_beano

bee06 wrote: »

My husband calls them midgets! Drives me crazy for some reason.

Hold up, have I been calling them the wrong name for 30 odd years?? A realisation on a Friday morning, this day could be a good day.

donegaLroad

Chuchote wrote: »

Met a man in Cyprus who said the mosquito bites there don't bother him at all. But he went to Cuba and he was eaten alive, came out with big huge pus-filled bumps from those commies.

You can get a thing called After Bite - a stick that dabs on ammonia - which lessens the misery if you put it on straightaway after a mosquito or midge bite.

yes, I know after bite.. I saw it in Canada. The mosquitoes there carried the West Nile virus at one stage... don't know if they still do?

rightyabe

Does DEET not stop the midgets like it stops mossies?

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rightyabe wrote: »

Does DEET not stop the midgets like it stops mossies?

Yes. Deet is your friend in these situations.