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The wrong trousers?

B3B3 Posts: 27,505
in The potting shed

What my question boils down to is: Do biters fly up your trouser leg to get you or do they bite you through your trousers?

I have three types of old gardening trousers:

Tight leggings

Loose with elastic round the ankles

Loose all the way up

I tend to get bitten around the legs, so this is an important consideration, especially when I forget the ASSS.
In London. Keen but lazy.
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  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Some people get bitten more than others I think, all I’ve been wearing is a very skimpy strappy sundress and flip flops, my OH had trousers tucked in his socks. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    I get bitten more than others😕
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • SkandiSkandi Posts: 1,723
    through the fabric generaly, which is why loose is best.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    He got a tick in an embarrassing place so now he keeps long trousers and socks on.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    They go for me too but not OH and it must be my blood as we both use the same sun screen.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • YviestevieYviestevie Posts: 7,066
    I get bitten whatever I wear.  The only thing that stops them is insect repellant - jungle formulae
    Hi from Kingswinford in the West Midlands
  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    Thanks @Skandi. Good to know😕
    I think everyone probably gets bitten, but only the unfortunate react.I
    @Lyn. Does he keep a sock on the embarrassing bit?
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    I get bitten through trousers. I use Avon So Soft - which apparently the SAS use. It works pretty against mozis but not other nasty bast*rds like deer fly. I also use mozi dunks in pond and drains as I'm allergic to mozi bites. This helps greatly, esp with gardening or sitting out in the evenings. 
  • Mary370Mary370 Posts: 2,003
    edited June 2020
    I used to get bitten, I also used to get hay fever, haven't had either in years.......in saying that I'll probably get bitten tomorrow lol
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited June 2020
    I used to get bitten by mozzies and reacted very badly ... a GP was once horrified by the state of my back after Id been drawing out in the garden one evening. They’d definitely bitten me through my teeshirts as I had bites all over my back and shoulders!

    It happens rarely nowadays ... I stay indoors when the mozzies are about ... can’t even sit out in a beer garden unless I can find a friendly smoker to sit next to ... and now social distancing will rule out snuggling up to smokers, even for the good of my health, as I don’t live with them ... 🦟 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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