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Yeah, folks are walking around the highlands bleeding all over the place from clegg bites apparently. And they don't just fly off if you brush at them, they cling on until you properly dislodge them! Supposedly the warm weather has brought them out in force
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Yep, was brutal this weekend for them.
Them and the heat made the climbs on my MTB loop purgatory on Sunday.
@bsb as @frankenbike says don't let the insects put you off though, they really are a minor encumbrance
Ecobeard
oh man. Horseflies love chasing you for some reason, normally when you're going up hill and sweating profusely.
Their bites are really painful too-feels like someone pinching you then they swell up like a bitch-I got one on my arse a few years ago that made sitting down incredibly uncomfortable, much to my partners dismay when she came home to find me lying on the sofa with a pack of frozen peas balanced on my posterior...
I'd take a midge bite any day of the year!