Smidge spray

[RescueMe0007]

I very rarely get bitten when I'm with my wife, she however gets eaten alive to the point that she's needed medical treatment. She reckons it's because she's made of finer stuff, but now I'll tell her that Heym said it was all about the smell.

You're a braver man than I Gunga Din!!

 

[RescueMe0007]

Anything containing Picardin will work. DEET whilst effective will melt a whole range of plastics (ask me how I know). It’s also worth pre-spraying your clothing with permethrin, but if you really get savaged that badly get a head net. Smidge make them or the Army issue surplus ones are good.

Having observed my son getting eaten alive while we (I) gralloched a stag last year, puts me firmly in your camp. However, as this stuff will dissuade ticks in addition to midges and other biting bsatrds, I intend to get a good wallop of it and spray all the kit with permethrin in addition. Obliged for the tips chaps.

 

[BWH]

Smidge works really well but I found Hedgewitch ( which has the same active ingredient Icaridin) Better.

 

[sh1kar]

Give Avon Skin so Soft a try.Works well for me & keeps my dashing good looks intact

Not any more. The active ingredient hasn’t been in it for a while

 

[stavross]

I use hedgewitch and it works well, I find it best if I’m out with someone else to use it myself and not let them use it

 

[ColinBr]

I use hedgewitch and it works well, I find it best if I’m out with someone else to use it myself and not let them use it

I do that with the father in law. He's a tick magnet.

Told him he can sit next to me anytime as they go to him rather than me.

Came home 1 time and he messaged me asking how many ticks I had on me to which I had none. He had 7 on him.
Thing is we were together the whole time

 

[Utectok]

Smidge use it all summer very good

 

[BenBhoy]

I use hedgewitch and it works well, I find it best if I’m out with someone else to use it myself and not let them use it

He does have his uses then!!!

 

[caorach]

I got so many questions that I did a video Forget about the Avon stuff, it is OK if you are facing a challenging episode of Countryfile but it doesn't keep the midges off.

 

[Mungo]

Give Avon Skin so Soft a try.Works well for me & keeps my dashing good looks intact

This doesn’t work, and hasn’t done for about 10 years.

They had to remove the chemical that acted as a repellent.

It’s now about as effective as water.

 

[Mungo]

Does it work? Taken on some new grazing &; every time I check ewes I'm getting eaten alive on my head.

Yes, it works.

Anything with icaridine works, up to a point.

 

[farrieral]

Another vote for hedgewitch spray, I use it for stalking and it keeps the horse flies off me whilst shoeing all summer, and those feckers love me!!

 

[andy R204]

This doesn’t work, and hasn’t done for about 10 years.

They had to remove the chemical that acted as a repellent.

It’s now about as effective as water.

Typical,can't leave nothing alone.

 

[sh1kar]

This doesn’t work, and hasn’t done for about 10 years.

They had to remove the chemical that acted as a repellent.

It’s now about as effective as water.

See no 24

 

[viking90]

There was a guy at the stalking show selling little spray bottles of the hedgewitch spray. I've found it pretty good as the wife buys litres of it for the horse but I've also found if I want the little biting bas*ards to suffer then the carr day and martin extra strength fly spray is satisfying. The deet eats everything plastic though.

 

[Mungo]

See no 24

It’s odd how the myth that it works is so persistent!

I never used it, and I’ve spoken to people who say that even before the ingredient change, it was a myth. Something about the implausibility of it makes the idea stick in people’s heads.

 

[ColinBr]

It’s odd how the myth that it works is so persistent!

I never used it, and I’ve spoken to people who say that even before the ingredient change, it was a myth. Something about the implausibility of it makes the idea stick in people’s heads.

It definitely used to work

Having spend many weekends on the banks of lochs and rivers fishing with the damned Scottish midge, it certainly helped.

 

[j500app]

Try smoking a pipe,it works for me.You must remember to remove the pipe before mounting shotgun or rifle.

 

[sh1kar]

Try smoking a pipe,it works for me.You must remember to remove the pipe before mounting shotgun or rifle.

I suppose you could always burn some elephant dung. Works on the Tsetse

 

[caorach]

It’s odd how the myth that it works is so persistent!

I never used it, and I’ve spoken to people who say that even before the ingredient change, it was a myth. Something about the implausibility of it makes the idea stick in people’s heads.

I think there were two parts to the story - one part was that it you put it on thick enough the midges stuck to it before they could bite you. The other side is that it did contain some citronella and this has a very mild anti-insect type action that is extremely short lived - it's very volatile. It was, however, never designed to repel insects and while I'm sure there's someone on the internet who claims that they go deer stalking with a pogo stick and it works really well for battering the deer to death life would be much more simple if they'd just use a rifle designed to do the job at hand. When there are good solutions designed to deal with the midge problem why would you use something designed for a completely different job?