is all I can think. I just need to step out the door rain-shine or cloud and they find me. Skeeters are the bane of my outdoor existence and always have been. Worse I seem to react like the probe carries an agent created in the Frankenstein lab 'cause every bite I fail to stop swells to the size of a quarter and a bothersome itchy burning lump that can often turn to infection. I'm not kvetching about a bite...nuhuh, I can go out for 3 minutes on the patio and get 'bit' 4-5 times. I think they ring a dinner bell or announce my coming. Oh yeh I do use repellent, Deet, if I'm doing something longer than a three minute exodus outdoors but I'm hesitant to use same for such a brief period. As for Black flies, let's not go there as it could entail a hospital visit and has. I must taste good even if I don't particularly have good taste. I have a lotion that stops some of the itch and have taken antihistamine pills which seems to help also.
I've not heard of Deet - but they have moisturisers now that act as repellent's also I don't know if Deet is nice to use
I don't have bug problems because I have pest control but something weird is going on with flies. There is always one in the house ...don't know where it's coming from and when I kill it another one pops up. And this just continues...only see one at a time and when that one is killed another takes its place to annoy me. This started about a month ago.
@Kalvin Mitnic ...I have read that some people do carry a certain scent or hormone that attracts insect more so than others. Maybe you should wear a garlic necklace and see if that helps.
Hmmm I suppose with a strong overactive imagination one might think of my being bothered by VAMPYRES but blimey, really it's just skeeters.