Where to post this - OK, let's start in this Forum.
Some of you will recall that I was mauled by biting midges (sandflies) at the last March Snake Valley camp. I'm pretty sure that's what they were - the reaction I had fitted the description for those most sensitive/reactive to their bites. I never saw, nor felt them at the time.
Little buggers got me well before dusk, before I had put on my repellent. Never felt them bite, but, by the next day - yeeeeouch! Took several weeks to heal (and consumed a few bottles of Stingoes for the first few days.)
So I don't want to go through that again. I have been reading up and it seems that my standard mozzie repellent, Aerogard, should do the trick.
But I just discovered something interesting. Aerogard does a "Tropical Strength" and an "Odourless". I have read the roll-on bottles carefully. Active ingredient in "Tropical Strength" is Diethyl Toluamide (DEET). Active ingredient in "Odourless" is Picaridin. Huh?
OK, what I have read suggests either should be effective, but if one of you has experience or are a biting insect expert researcher
I'd like to have your suggestions. (Avoid the camp, or stay indoors after dark are not the suggestions I want to hear, mind you.
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Thanks
Eric