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I'm off to the lakes for the weekend and wanted to know what its like for insects ? I'm also considering bivvying up high ? mozzy net or not .....

 

cheers

In reply to sam@work:

Watch out for the willy-biting jumping spiders. Got a good seeing to last year by one of those bad boys and have the scars to prove it.

In reply to sam@work:

I've been up on the high north-facing crags 'til fairly late on and it's been absolutely fine. The only real problems I've had this year have been some mozzy bites on a hot day's walking, and after clambering through the horizontal forest of felled trees for hours and hours at the most notoriously tick-ridden crag in the country, with no repellent or protection, I got covered in ticks. Which was f*cking grim.

In reply to sam@work:

The lakes is pretty bloody good for insects, especially the really small bitey ones.

In reply to Jon Stewart:

What crag is that?

In reply to Red Rover:

Raven Crag, Thirlmere

In reply to sam@work: I ‘m based in the Lakes best advice I can give is watch out for ticks really bad at the moment 

 

 

In reply to sam@work:

Just been in Keswick / Duddon valley area for a weeks camping / walking. Next to no midges low down.. no problem with ticks either..horse flies were all I noticed. High up there was a good breeze and I thought it would be great for bivis...shame to have to come down off the ridges.

More midges in my garden back in the peak.

In reply to dominic lee:

Slightly 'off-topic' but similarly - I've just got back from Scotland (Assynt, Skye) and had no problem with midges (even on windless bivis), just some annoying horseflys in Glen Slig.