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[heidi]

Question for the homeowner-types: do any of you have the Mosquito Magnet or a similar high-catch anti-biting-insects device? If so, what do you have and what do you think of it? We need something - our backyard is utterly unusable because of the skeeters!

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[ivyblossom.livejournal.com]

I even have the mp3 on my ipod, in fact. :)

I know the blackfly very well. I used to spend the spring in Northern Ontario too, setting up camp for the month prior to the kids arriving, and we had to take serious precautions. We could not shower in the morning, only at night. You can't smell too clean or they'll just get to you faster. We wore t-shirts on our heads, so that only our faces showed, put long-sleeved t-shirts on over that, and then gloves. We wore our socks pulled up over the bottoms of our pants. The only thing you can do to protect yourself against blackflies is to cover up. Once you got over how stupid you looked, it was pretty efficient.