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Stick lemon balm or mint in your hat brim. And I know this is going to  
sound nuts, but flying insects hover at the highest point of your  
body. If you wear a hat with a feather, for example, they'll stay out  
of your face. Try it. Next time bugs are in your face, put your hand  
up in the air.

We just had my 1 yo dog get into something that gave him a rash. Dosed  
him with dex and put him on benadryl and he's right as rain.




On Jun 18, 2008, at 10:47 PM, Marie McHarry wrote:

> I always have bendryl on hand (and when I had the goat dairy, I
> generally had epinephrine too) but I laid in some of the liquid
> variety as well as some spray. The latest plague -- and I'm not really
> bitching because I'm on high ground, so the plague of the day isn't
> the problem -- is buffalo gnats. They look like regular gnats, but
> when they bite you, huge welts form. According to the local papers,
> buffalo gnats thrive only in clean, running streams. They were a
> penance for the early settlers (and the Indians who were killed or
> evicted to make way for the settlers) but in living memory haven't
> been much of a problem. Now the streams are all cleaned up, and the
> gnats are back. At least that's the story. The observable fact is that
> they're worse than timber flies and just as bad as sweat bees.
>
> Marie, who remembers the nearly mosquito-less year during the drought
> of '88 (not a consideration this year)