Kilts and flying & biting insects

**Tony** · 14th August 08, 07:51 AM

Originally Posted by Mipi

Yesterday while driving home, dressed in the p@n!s,

All I can say is, if you can't bring yourself to type the word "pants" can you find a better way to censor it? I read it 3 times before I figured you meant "pants".

**McNulty** · 14th August 08, 01:24 PM

We have a nasty little bugger out here on the Western Slope called the cedar gnat from early May all through June. You don't feel the bite but he/she leaves a welt the size of a good, if there is on, mosquito bite only itchier and harder. "After Bite" tends to ease the itch but the welts last for at least a week.
Last week I was hiking out near the home and as you worked your way through the tall grass, grasshoppers were literally flying everywhere including up my kilt. I started hopping around flapping my front panel as a couple rounded the trail and caught me in the act of trying to dislodge a grasshopper from under my kilt. They asked " Are you OK?" and I explained what had just happened and they both remarked "One of the problems of living in paradise."
No real way to prevent them, I don't like that nasty DEET stuff because it ruins your fly fishing gear, but try the "After Bite" for relief.
Nulty

**Pleater** · 15th August 08, 05:46 AM

Whilst away from home for a week and getting rained on regularly, I slept in the back of the van, as the mud was deep enough to drown in, and was sure that I would be bitten half to death by flying insects - but the Jungle formula kept them off - at least I did not experience a single bite, even sleeping with the side door fully open.

I needed the night air as it was so warm that the bedding would have been wet through by morning.

I put the repellant on a spare sock and hung it from the roof of the van beween me and the open air.

Anne the Pleater

**Jack Daw** · 15th August 08, 05:58 AM

For the Clan MacIntyre Gathering at Glennoe, there was a loch and a river; so, I chose to wear trousers while a good many were bitten or stung by the midges at certain locations.

**Spc. Scott** · 15th August 08, 06:14 AM

Originally Posted by Carolina Kiltman

One quick comment on ticks and chiggers crawling up the legs. I have a Granddaughter who is a professional camp councilor and she uses pet insect collars like ankle bracelets. Seems to do the job. Just get the ones listed as good for ticks and chiggers. Worth a try, maybe?

This I can attest to as well. Only word of advice is avoid direct skin contact.

One spray that I use is BugBand. http://www.bugband.net/

I can vouch for the spray and I plan to try out the both the wristband version of it and the bagged version for the tent.

**Nick the DSM** · 15th August 08, 09:39 AM

you can always wear undergarments to protect the places.

**acstoon** · 15th August 08, 10:49 AM

Whilst riding motorcycles thru central Georgia, a couple years ago, I had a run-in with a malevolent little bug:

We were riding in a group of 7, with my wife on the back... when a sizeable insect flew up my sleeve, down my back, past my waist, and settle near my left cheek.
It was over 100 F, so we were already sweaty & miserable.This creature, which I have since named "Spawn of Satan", commenced to show his displeasure by chomping on my gluteal mass.
For 20 minutes I endured, squirming and wincing, before the rest of the pack pulled into a gas station for a break.
I jumped off the bike, barely putting down kickstand and shutting off the engine, and ran into the store. I found the bathroom, but it was occupied. Prancing and clenching my left buttock, I awaited the user to leave.
When the door opened, who should come out? MY WIFE! How the heck she got in there before me is still a mystery..
Needless to say, I hurriedly yanked my pants down and found the minion of evil that had leveled so much anger & pain upon my rear. Some kind of fiendish beetle, with mandibles the size of which seemed physically impossible. I saluted his valor, then gave him a "Viking Funeral".
The welts took several days to disappear.

Had I been wearing a kilt....

**gu3** · 15th August 08, 12:23 PM

Originally Posted by Carolina Kiltman

One quick comment on ticks and chiggers crawling up the legs. I have a Granddaughter who is a professional camp councilor and she uses pet insect collars like ankle bracelets. Seems to do the job. Just get the ones listed as good for ticks and chiggers. Worth a try, maybe?

I was ready to go out and buy some collars, until I googled it. The pesticides used in tick collars are detrimental to human skin and of limited benefit (if any) when worn over clothing. (Link) Oh, well.

**Jim Young** · 15th August 08, 01:33 PM

Avon Skin so Soft is a product used by many kilt wearers here in Scotland to deter the wee highland midge, the terror of the tourists. It seems to work well, even the tough Scottish Regiments use it.

Jim in Pitlochry

www.scottishsgiandubhs.com

**Jack Daw** · 15th August 08, 02:02 PM

Originally Posted by Jim Young

Avon Skin so Soft is a product used by many kilt wearers here in Scotland to deter the wee highland midge, the terror of the tourists. It seems to work well, even the tough Scottish Regiments use it.

Jim in Pitlochry

www.scottishsgiandubhs.com

I'll vouch that it also has a nice scent and it leaves your skin....well, you know.