Biting midges or cedar gnats or no-see-ums
Biting midges, cedar gnats, no-see-ums, basty nasterds etc... By any name they are the scourge of the southwest and it seems, the world over. I can only talk about the southwest since it's the only...
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I guess everyone has a biting bug story. If Whazoo is complaining about these little devils while out camping, then they must be nasty.
One thing we should all remember is that they are just trying to make a living like the rest of us and they will attack humans easily because we are so defenceless having lost our body hair over the millenium, like to shower every day with smelly stuff,have lost our ability to be somewhat physically immune to insect bites and spend most of our time in artificial environments among other things.
One thing that I always wondered is why a manufacturer would spend hundred of thousands of dollars on RV's and not put in no-see-um proof netting on all of the exposed openings which would cost pennies extra.When there are a lot of bugs, I am much more comfortable in my 3'x6' backpack tent than the TC.
It's usually at night when these beast feed on the unsuspecting causing lack of sleep, grumpy behavior and bad itching when you are supposed to be out having fun.
Every year since leaving the north we visit our son who lives in Smithers and fish for the hogs(spring salmon) on the Skeena river in July. Everyone in their small backpack tents have a dreamy bugless sleep while us in our "superior TC digs" have no-see-um bites up our ying-yang and are really grumpy for lack of sleep.
Day time with deet and big fires ,everything is fine but at night, they fly through the mosquitoe screens and devastate us mortals.
The only positive thing about lots of biting bugs...... very few campers= privacy.
Whazoo, if you figure out how to keep these little boogers from chewing on you, let me take you up north to the NWT where you can have a job for life.
Dave
One thing we should all remember is that they are just trying to make a living like the rest of us and they will attack humans easily because we are so defenceless having lost our body hair over the millenium, like to shower every day with smelly stuff,have lost our ability to be somewhat physically immune to insect bites and spend most of our time in artificial environments among other things.
One thing that I always wondered is why a manufacturer would spend hundred of thousands of dollars on RV's and not put in no-see-um proof netting on all of the exposed openings which would cost pennies extra.When there are a lot of bugs, I am much more comfortable in my 3'x6' backpack tent than the TC.
It's usually at night when these beast feed on the unsuspecting causing lack of sleep, grumpy behavior and bad itching when you are supposed to be out having fun.
Every year since leaving the north we visit our son who lives in Smithers and fish for the hogs(spring salmon) on the Skeena river in July. Everyone in their small backpack tents have a dreamy bugless sleep while us in our "superior TC digs" have no-see-um bites up our ying-yang and are really grumpy for lack of sleep.
Day time with deet and big fires ,everything is fine but at night, they fly through the mosquitoe screens and devastate us mortals.
The only positive thing about lots of biting bugs...... very few campers= privacy.
Whazoo, if you figure out how to keep these little boogers from chewing on you, let me take you up north to the NWT where you can have a job for life.
Dave
