I'm type O and used to get bitten soooooooo much although Avon SSS really helped when I discovered that. However when I reached 'a certain age' the mozzies started ignoring me and I'd not been bitten for several years ... until the bite on my thigh last week
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Due to the boggyness of this place we've had mossies since February. We actually caught some flying over snow! The midges and clegs are not out yet, but once the clegs and Blandford fly's start, oh my my Husband comes in looking like a pincushin, so far (touch wood) they do not like me.
I was so excited about the Avon stuff. But they still bite me through it, through socks and leggings. I'm just too damn attractive - i.e. I smell strongly. Which I suspect I really do. I went to Jamaica as a kid and had to be hospitalised as I was covered from head to toe and had a huge allergic reaction. errg.
It's ants that seem to get me. Red ones in particular and they seem to be out in numbers early this year. The sloping, south facing, clay soil, lawn in the back garden is riddled with ant nests at the moment.
When my son in law went to Corfu whilst taking a year out he got slightly inebrated and fell asleep on the balcony with the light on and clothes off. He had to be hospitalised as the mozzies had had a field day, lucky he fell asleep on his stomach is all I can say.
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
A bit of an extreme measure though