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Midges

  • 01-06-2017 11:26PM
    #1
    Doltanian
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,201 ✭✭✭


    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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  • #2
    Aint Eazy Being Cheezy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,634 ✭✭✭Aint Eazy Being Cheezy


    Think they prefer to be known as dwarves.


  • #3
    Beyondgone
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,166 ✭✭✭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..


  • #4
    Chester Copperpot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭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


  • #5
    Persephone kindness
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,084 ✭✭✭Persephone kindness


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


  • #6
    Doltanian
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    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.


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  • #7
    Walter E GO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 220 ✭✭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.


  • #8
    bee06
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    My husband calls them midgets! Drives me crazy for some reason.


  • #9
    AllForIt
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    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.


  • #10
    Eyes Down Field
    Closed Accounts Posts: 730 ✭✭✭Eyes Down Field


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


  • #11
    Chester Copperpot
    Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭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


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  • #12
    Glenster
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,626 ✭✭✭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.


  • #13
    AllForIt
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    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.


  • #14
    sligojoek
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    Don't let Joe Duffy hear ye.

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


  • #15
    dodderangler
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    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.


  • #16
    Persephone kindness
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    I wonder why they go after some people and not others? I have never been bitten or stung by anything.


  • #17
    foxy farmer
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    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.


  • #18
    RobertKK
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    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.


  • #19
    donegaLroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭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.


  • #20
    Persephone kindness
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    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


  • #21
    donegaLroad
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    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.


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  • #22
    Chuchote
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    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.


  • #23
    van_beano
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    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.


  • #24
    donegaLroad
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,379 ✭✭✭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?


  • #25
    rightyabe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 812 ✭✭✭rightyabe


    Does DEET not stop the midgets like it stops mossies?


  • #26
    [Deleted User]
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    rightyabe wrote: »
    Does DEET not stop the midgets like it stops mossies?

    Yes. Deet is your friend in these situations.


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