They usually come in their own little pouch so you can easily clip it onto your bag, coat or belt with a carabiner. They do not contain a proboscis – the biting mouthparts that mosquitoes have, which means they cannot transmit diseases. It's incredibly light at only 16 grams and comes in a tiny stuff sack that will help to keep the net protected in your pocket when not being used. Some say that taking garlic capsules can help reduce your attractiveness to midges, while others swear that taking vitamin B capsules (or eating lots or Marmite) do the trick. Midges can detect highly contrasting colours, like dark clothing against a light background, so make yourself look less obvious!

Our Midge Jacket offers you protection from the waist up with full head and face cover, making it ideal for anglers, gardeners, walkers and anybody else who is going to be exposed to midges or other small insects for a prolonged period of time. Another argument used in favour of widespread midge control (if not outright eradication) is that, while they do play a role in the food chain – eaten by a range of bats and birds and other creatures – those creatures would, if midges were gone, just eat something else. I asked Mike Jack (the designer) about this and he confirmed my suspicions that it was harder to keep the visor in exactly the right position and said visor was also more prone to steaming up. We use marketing, analytical and functional cookies as well as similar technologies to give you the best experience.Sheltered locations with high rainfall and high humidity tend to be where you will find the highest concentrations of biting midges. Responses range from getting bitten to death and complaining about it to refusing to go out on still days. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. A patch of ground about 6ft x 6ft, ie around 2 metre square, could hatch about half a million of them in a season.

In recent years, however, scientists have examined those who midges seem to avoid to see what they have that the rest of us do not. Active ingredient Citrepel®75 is proven to repel midges, ticks, horseflies, mosquitoes, sandflies and gnats.Come to think of it, the fact that it was early October may have helped a little, though I had been eaten alive while photographing the Glenfinnan Viaduct just a few days earlier, on an equally sunny day. During larval stages, these creatures live as omnivores/ detritivores in the water films of the surface layers of the soil. They protect against the midge as well as any decent midge net and the glasses are very clear indeed. One thing we can be thankful for is that midges tend to stay outdoors rather than enter buildings and homes so you can rest assured that it’s unlikely they’ll be bunking up with you in the night – although, they do enjoy camping out in tents, almost as much as we do!