Delamere Forest

[Wayland]

Gary,
Where do you get the ingredients from and what ratio do you mix it to, or is it a case of a slash of this and a smidgen of that.

All the ingredients were from my local chemist and I just mixed the three bottles to make three bottles of bug dope.

 

[Singeblister]

LIdel have some bug repellent in at the moment , spray on and roll on , and it has the exact same stuff in as Gary uses , smells quite good

 

[Graham_S]

25.
but I was there longer.
I hate mossies.
Had fun though. A good meet and a great location.
Ideal place for a Northern Moot

 

[xylaria]

Why didn't I get bit at all?
I was around the same fire with Wier family and I am not bitten. The kids played around the lake and there is one bite between them. Thiamine is supposed to stop them biteing. i have looked at our diet I don't think we eat more vit B1 than normal. We do eat marmite though.

I have no complaints, we had a lovely weekend. And I have learned about camping next to lakes in july.

 

[Goose]

Don't think I got any, must be immmune to the cheshire midge, I didn't use any repellants but I do usually have a roll up in my mouth or behind my ear

 

[Mosquito Killer]

Hi MikeS, it is about 5 miles drom Oulton Park or, 11 miles from chester off the A556 or the A54.

Mosquito Killer

 

[spamel]

Why didn't I get bit at all?
I was around the same fire with Wier family and I am not bitten. The kids played around the lake and there is one bite between them. Thiamine is supposed to stop them biteing. i have looked at our diet I don't think we eat more vit B1 than normal. We do eat marmite though.

I have no complaints, we had a lovely weekend. And I have learned about camping next to lakes in july.

marmite is said to do the trick against them, eating lots of bread also seems to work according to some folk. I wonder if it is a yeast thing? May not have been the stags breath, could have been those chanterelles!

 

[wanderinstar]

That's what it is Fiona. All them mushrooms.

 

[Mosquito Killer]

So do you eat the bread and then smear marmite on onself to deter the mosquito's?

 

[decorum]

Taking Vit B complex works for me as I don't particularly like marmite - IIRC VitB12 is a turn off for biting nasties and hanging sprigs of fresh mint (not polos etc!) in your tent doorway/vent points usually helps to keep flying nasties out. Pity there's no swatting smilie!

 

[spamel]

So do you eat the bread and then smear marmite on onself to deter the mosquito's?

I think it is just the fact that the vitamins from those products ooze out of your pores, putting them off!