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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My husband's grandfather used to bathe liberally in citronella oil up in the northwoods of Wisconsin, where there are chiggers and no-see-ums and black flies and horse flies and skeeters.
I don't know if it repelled insects, but it kept grandma from smelling that he'd been having a few tipples with the boys while fishing.
I don't know if it repelled insects, but it kept grandma from smelling that he'd been having a few tipples with the boys while fishing.
