24th June 2015, 12:43 PM
Probably the only useful outcome (personally) of working for Tempus years ago was the discovery that if you drive a dark blue Landrover slowly round in circles at the far end of the field all the horse-flies go and attack it instead of the diggers (other dark vehicles are available and probably work equally well) - apparently the little bXXXXXXs are programmed to go after the largest dark moving object they can see. Really faded yellow gear means everything else goes after the shiny newbie/banana, although you may get shouted at by the H&S guy. Sometimes leaving yellow buckets on the side of the trench works. Afraid only Skin-so-Soft works with midges (in this case other effective products are not available 
) -those citrus candles and most of the other 'repellents' actually seem to attract the little blighters... Only female mosquitos bite and handily they're the ones that make the noise. Get them while they're feeding (ditto horseflies) since they can't fly off as quickly.
And always have a Scotsman called Andrew on site to stick his spade through the unsuspected wasp nest, run around screaming and then hurl himself into the adjacent river
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) -those citrus candles and most of the other 'repellents' actually seem to attract the little blighters... Only female mosquitos bite and handily they're the ones that make the noise. Get them while they're feeding (ditto horseflies) since they can't fly off as quickly. And always have a Scotsman called Andrew on site to stick his spade through the unsuspected wasp nest, run around screaming and then hurl himself into the adjacent river
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