Midges in Knoydart first week in June

20/05/2012 at 12:47

Thinking of doing a crossing North/South wild camping and maybe bothies. Is it worth more planning re the midges.I know about the midge forecast site. How good is Smidge?

Mole

20/05/2012 at 12:54

I think I'd take a headnet and something to deter them - as a precaution at least. They were about near Inverie last year in mid May....

Smidge works well according to 2 others I know who have used it (wife and mate)- he claimed that midges visibly veered away as they appoached!

She reported being the only camper headnet-free when she used it in Harris in August last year...

'Big' can though ....

Montgomery Wick

20/05/2012 at 13:33

http://www.midgie.net/images/midge/headnetf.jpg

Kinley

20/05/2012 at 18:39

Certainly used a headnet in Knoydart first week of June last year.

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5024/5808424892_6e19db8748_o.jpg

Lindsay Boyd

20/05/2012 at 20:24

I would suspect the midges might be a bit later in arriving this year due to the colder weather we have been experiencing during May. Apparently it was -4C in Aboyne last night. More frosty mornings should delay their appearance.

Slainte

Lindsay

Metric Kate

21/05/2012 at 00:06

Kinley wrote (see)

Certainly used a headnet in Knoydart first week of June last year.

Looks familiar! (The hot-tub and the duck, not the other occupant).

I've found Smidge to be very good, at least against the slightly less fearsome Welsh Midge. Smells ok too and doesn't eat plastic. We're buying some for our SARDA handlers and Bodies.

Montgomery Wick

21/05/2012 at 00:12

East coast-west coast...the winter was so relentlessly warm and wet on the west side that I'd expect, if anything, an early and vicious midge season (why I'm researching new midge hats). A couple of days of mild frosts won't stop that. Incoming!