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Never seen one.

Never heard of such a thing here. Heard people from other places talk about "no-see-ums" and wondered what in the hell they were talking about.

Mosquitos and ticks are bad enough here.

PIC Mosquito Coils work very well also.

Mix up some vanilla extract and water in a spray bottle.

Spray it on before going outside. It works.

What keeps no good, lowlife, bloodsucking dimocommies away?

At the cabin and are getting hit with the works. No see uns, gnats, mosquitos, deer flies, horse flies, and ticks. Got the first three going with some rains earlier in the week. Supposed to rain tomorrow so will get a new batch in a few days.

Detol hospital dissent acting works

I went to visit my folks just after gradgitating college at their place down in Vero Beach, FL. I'd never been down there in June before and went fishing up at Sebastian Inlet. Dad tried to warn me, but I stupidly walked into a cloud of No-See-Ums on the way out to the jetty. I was only in it a few minutes, and did not feel anything right away.

Yikes! Within a few hours, the bites started to itch. After a couple of days, I had to cut the trip short and drive home to Cincinnati. The itching stayed for a couple of weeks.

A few years later, our next-door neighbors decided to take their trailer down to Sebastian Inlet in June. They had 10 kids; I forget how many of them went on the trip. They pulled into the campground after dark and started setting up. Within a couple of hours, the No-See-Ums had got the whole family. They had to pull out in the middle of the night with the little kids screaming. That was a long ride back to Cincy.

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BIG AZZED FAN

Family Ceratopogonidae. Nasty little beasties. Around 1 mm in size. Can go through normal size screens. High % DEET (98%) very helpful.

No-See-Ums suck but JFC.

LOL

Try acting like a man for fugk sake.

They're the smallest species of gnat but their bites are worse than mosquitoes. Wiping the bites with alcohol will help with the itch. We don't have huge numbers of them here but being outside in grassy areas after sundown can get lively.

Having spent thousands of days in the forests here in AZ, I have heard of them, told they were here, but never encountered them.

My best friend and I went scouting in mid-June for his archery bull elk hunt this September. We got up early and glassed, Side by side, from a cinder cone. Saw 75 bulls that trip. We both were wearing camo long pants and high top hiking boots.

By the time we got back to camp, I started inching, so rolled up my pant legs. I musta had 100 bites on my legs, mainly at my sock line. He had 2 bites. He said they were no see um bites.

I was itching for two weeks. I still have the red marks on my legs from their bites.

When I was working as a faller, the ..no see ums... seem to live in the tops of trees, we would fall the trees so the tops would land on a skidder trail, the skidderman gets out and hooks the tree by the tops.

After a couple hours of that, by 10:00am the operators were out of their minds itching. Then after it warmed up they would go away and the bulldogs (horseflies) would come out lol.

I used to mix my saw gas richer to create smoke so it would help keep them away. Lethal doses of bug spray and moving quickly are also proven methods that may help.

Household ammonia helps reduce the itch.
“Dot” it on the bite.


Some other methods here:

https://thebugagenda.com/no-see-um-bite-treatment/

Are you sure that wasnt chiggers?
Also oak tree mites can resemble chigger bites but i dont think they swell or itch as much.

I dunno

My buddy said no see ums

I’m told AZ has them but no mention of chiggers

All I know is I must be sweet and my buddy pretty salty as they bit the crap outta me and barely bothered him and he was pretty much sitting beside me as we were both glassing elk

Had the little bastards down in Colombia. DEET worked to keep them off. Mostly got bit on the hands.

First thing you'd notice was a slight itch and welting. Next day welting would be gone, replaced by a bright red dot about 3/16" to 1/4". Later a small blister would appear and itch like the dickens. And then it would get worse. Took about 3 weeks to heal up.