Midge Machine

[Fluff]

Ah memories! During one of our training hikes for our Duke Of Edinburgh award, my friend had to go to work (she could not get out of it) we were the only girls out of 10 or so boys, and none of them would help me put up my tent! I did it eventually by myself, but wrong and millions of midges got in. My friend and I had to sleep with towels on our head that night.

[tonkatojo]

A while back (years) the forestry commission in Kielder forrest Northumberland used an industrial one to try and keep the camp site's clear of the damned midge it used a carbon dioxide bottle to attract them and it was like a great big hoover type machine that sucked them into a bag. It was on the telly I saw it being used, a news broadcast I think, they were tipping large sackfull's every day, don't know if it made much difference tho'.