Anyone been bitten recently or any advice to stop them, I’ve tried insect repellent but them female horseflies are baying for blood & it doesn’t half itch afterwards.

Bite the buggers back.

Try Avon’s ‘skin so soft’
It is a hand cream but is excellent as an insect repelleant. Apparently the SAS and US Marines swear by it.
I too used to get bitten a lot and started using this. Really did the trick.

And a bonus is that you end up with really soft skin

Get over it you big girls blouse!

When bitten which you cant prevent use Tiger Balm white from Chinese herbalists or Holland and Barrett
Or to stop itching apply bircarb of soda mixed to a thick paste and apply to the bite area
Toothpaste containing bircarb also works

1968claret wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 18, 2021 7:28 pm

Try Avon’s ‘skin so soft’
It is a hand cream but is excellent as an insect repelleant. Apparently the SAS and US Marines swear by it.
I too used to get bitten a lot and started using this. Really did the trick.

And a bonus is that you end up with really soft skin

I can second this.

Been using it a few weeks since my mum suggested it after my leg was feasted on and not been bitten since

Avon Skin so Soft does indeed work, but it's also quite greasy and can overheat the skin in hot weather, especially if you're doing any strenuous excerise like hill walking or biking.

Biting everyone at the minute near wooded area's.

Skin so soft works.

They especially attack you if any scratches or cuts on show as they see it as an easy access to your blood.

I've never really known people go on about these horseflies so much it's usually Wasps.

If you react to them like I do keeping anti histamines handy through the summer is a must. Bicarbonate of soda is good for any itching… good for painful sunburn too.

Quickenthetempo wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 18, 2021 7:40 pm

Biting everyone at the minute near wooded area's.

Skin so soft works.

They especially attack you if any scratches or cuts on show as they see it as an easy access to your blood.

I've never really known people go on about these horseflies so much it's usually Wasps.

Barbwire pullthru

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/insect-bi ... /symptoms/

Thanks everyone that Avon cream seems to be the favourite.

I got bitten by Horse flies in Abersoch about 6 weeks ago. 2 bites turned really bad, my leg swelled up and was burning hot.
I had to get an antibiotic cream prescribed for them and it still took 2 weeks to heal. Even now it's still scarred and itchy.
Horrible insects.

Jel wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 18, 2021 9:24 pm

I got bitten by Horse flies in Abersoch about 6 weeks ago. 2 bites turned really bad, my leg swelled up and was burning hot.
I had to get an antibiotic cream prescribed for them and it still took 2 weeks to heal. Even now it's still scarred and itchy.
Horrible insects.

I’ve ended up like that a couple of times, I’ve been on antibiotics once as I ended up hardly being able to walk! I forgot to put repellent one whilst playing golf a couple of weeks ago and had three of the little feckers chewing at my leg at the same time!!

Thanks for the reminder I have had several bad bites one which swelled my hand horribly. I was sat by the lawn today and just happened to see one sat in the grass next to my bare foot ribbed back and all. Lucky escape.

I believe wearing a mask stops it. Although only protects the non mask wearer.

Aren't Horse flies what Rovers fans have on their trousers

i've heard that eating marmite deters some insects from biting you but attracts others.

Stopped at a service station yesterday and waiting near the doors for mmy wife to come out and started itching in different places. I spotted several tiny skinny insects on my arm - maybe half a cm long and 0.5mm thin. Hastily headed back towards the car and brushed them off. By the time my wife got to the car I'd seen about 10 of them on my drivers window. Place was crawling, literally and now I ha e a few itchy bites.

Anyone git any ideas what the skinny gits could have been?

You will see two distinctly set of swellings

what_no_pies wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 19, 2021 12:14 am

Stopped at a service station yesterday and waiting near the doors for mmy wife to come out and started itching in different places. I spotted several tiny skinny insects on my arm - maybe half a cm long and 0.5mm thin. Hastily headed back towards the car and brushed them off. By the time my wife got to the car I'd seen about 10 of them on my drivers window. Place was crawling, literally and now I ha e a few itchy bites.

Anyone git any ideas what the skinny gits could have been?

They could have been Hungry?

what_no_pies wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 19, 2021 12:14 am

Stopped at a service station yesterday and waiting near the doors for mmy wife to come out and started itching in different places. I spotted several tiny skinny insects on my arm - maybe half a cm long and 0.5mm thin. Hastily headed back towards the car and brushed them off. By the time my wife got to the car I'd seen about 10 of them on my drivers window. Place was crawling, literally and now I ha e a few itchy bites.

Anyone git any ideas what the skinny gits could have been?

Are you in Vietnam by any chance?

1968claret wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 18, 2021 7:28 pm

Try Avon’s ‘skin so soft’
It is a hand cream but is excellent as an insect repelleant. Apparently the SAS and US Marines swear by it.
I too used to get bitten a lot and started using this. Really did the trick.

And a bonus is that you end up with really soft skin

You'll also smell 'like a whore's handbag'........but the bugs will leave you alone.

Using your defence of racism by saying if a non white person isn't ok with receiving racist abuse on twitter then he should close his account, surely if you don't want to be bitten outside by insects just stay indoors. If you go outside you are asking for it.

Difference being insects are part of nature & have been in existence for a very long time creating more problems & biting more people than a handful of footballers/celebrities getting stick on Twitter, I’m not expecting giant pharmaceutical companies to create solutions to help me free of charge whilst people are campaigning/lobbying for the Twitter chiefs to have a complete overhaul regarding verification upon registering for millions of people free of charge, no difference at all

For those that are anti-war campaigners hoping for a better world, one mosquito bite will soon resolve that moralistic fantasy.

Skin so soft by Avon is good for stopping insect bites
2 years ago I had to go to hospital because of an insect bite and my father in law told me about skin so soft, he said the army use/ used it. I have been fine for last 2 years

Another positive mention for the Avon stuff. I had it recommended several years ago and was told the story about it being regulation issue for the armed forces. It really does work and it's far less "intrusive" than some other stuff you can buy because essentially it's a skin moisturiser.

Dark Cloud wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 19, 2021 9:19 am

Another positive mention for the Avon stuff. I had it recommended several years ago and was told the story about it being regulation issue for the armed forces. It really does work and it's far less "intrusive" than some other stuff you can buy because essentially it's a skin moisturiser.

After all the recommendations, I have just ordered some.
Hope it works.

I suffered a lot with horsefly bites, walking a lot on moors, my niece a practice nurse, owns a horse advised me 4 pts water, i pt Dettol, not had one since,two years now, after applying this mixture. Good luck

blackburnturfite wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 19, 2021 10:05 am

I suffered a lot with horsefly bites, walking a lot on moors, my niece a practice nurse, owns a horse advised me 4 pts water, i pt Dettol, not had one since,two years now, after applying this mixture. Good luck

That's a lot to drink mate. Be peeing all day.

If you do get bitten though the After bite pen is very good at getting rid of bites and stopping itching.
https://www.chemist-4-u.com/afterbite-i ... BrEALw_wcB

Jel wrote: ↑

Mon Jul 19, 2021 9:44 am

After all the recommendations, I have just ordered some.
Hope it works.

Same ordered a bottle this morning from my Avon representative £3:50 a bottle apparently there’s a few different types I’ve gone for the original so I’m hoping that keeps the little buggers at bay.

‘’I’ve seen a horsefly, I’ve seen a housefly, I’ve even seen a dragonfly but I’ll be about done seeing everything when I see an elephant fly.’’