You did well to escape the Highland midge, Chuck - culicoides impunctatus
has a well-deserved reputation as the best promotion yet for English and
Welsh tourism development. We live in just about the only part of the
Highlands which is not so blighted, perhaps because of the lack of standing
water in the area.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culicoides_impunctatus
Do not mess with the midges, unless well supplied with Avon Skin-so-soft,
which is universally praised for effectiveness, so well that it is now used
by Royal Marines ain preference to any "official" stores:
http://heritage.scotsman.com/scotland/Avons-spray-finds-calling-as.2654251.j
p
(note the mention of Oban in that article!).
Piers
-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Norcutt [mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 15 July 2011 16:38
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] Mosquito Science and Metaphysics [was Totally OT
-TickRemoval]
One of the nicer non-advertised features of being in England and Scotland
was no skeeters. Whilst in London and in Scotland we slept with the windows
open. Generally quite necessary as it was quite warm.
It's a good thing there are no skeeters since there are no screens.
But in Scotland two of my traveling companions were bitten by midgies near
the water: Loch Lomond, IIRC. From the looks of the bites, while not as
bad, it seems to have more in common with being bitten by a fire ant than a
skeeter.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_ant#Introduced_species>
I'm glad that I was apparently perceived as somewhat less tasty.
Chuck Norcutt
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