As if our rubbish weather this year wasn’t bad enough in itself it’s also likely to lead to increased numbers of mosquitoes, ticks and other biting insects.
*shudder*
I hate Mosquitoes! The only thing keeping them away these days from me is the best mosquito repellent for african safari I’d found online.
As well as bites being itchy and quite often making a random part of your body puff up to three times its usual size there’s actually also a risk of contracting horrible illnesses from ticks like lyme disease. Enough to ruin anyone’s holiday!
The key to staying safe according to Ray Mears (and let’s be honest, he knows a thing or two about this sort of thing) is not to go for the insect repellent with the most DEET because that evaporates quickly leaving you unprotected later but actually to find one that will release the DEET over the longest period.
3M have developed their range of Ultrathon long lasting insect repellents to keep you safe for up to 12 hours and are kindly giving away a set made up of:
- 60ml lotion (12hr protection)
- 125ml spray (8hr protection)
- 100ml pump spray (12hr protection)
If you’d like to be in with a chance of winning then leave me a comment telling me where is the most annoying place you’ve had an insect bite. I had one on the sole of my foot once, aargh! You can get all the usual extra entries by tweeting etc and recording it in the rafflecopter widget below. The giveaway will run until Tuesday 2nd July.
The Ultrathon range is available from Amazon, Tesco, The Co-operative pharmacy, chemistdirect.co.uk and 3Mdirect.co.uk.
jo glasspool says
On my ear!
On my big toe, it wasnt so much annoying, just stung like mad, though I was a child then so probably hurt more and I wouldnt stop screaming!
the tip of my nose!
On my ankle just where my trainer touched so very uncomfortable
On my lip.with a horse fly .iit got so swollen couldn’t eat or drink for 3 days
On my neck. Scratched it and it looked like a love bite
I had one on my toe and ended up on anti-biotics!
on my nose
everywhre but in an effort to keep it clean, behind my ear just where the arm of my glasses sit
On the inside of one of my bum cheeks – it was traumatic
While in Cairn’s Australia, was bitten on the foot by something. Was intensely itchy so after 2 days being driven mad (and my ankle starting to swell), went to a local pharmacy for something…told the lady behind the counter who said…”well, you’re still alive so wasn’t one of our more deadly residents at least!!”
On my neck
On a long weekend away, with only one pair of shoes, I was bitten on the foot right where by strap of my shoe. Boy was it sore and itchy. New sandals were rapidly purchased.
At the bottom of my nose was so annoying and irritating
on my fingers, just on the knuckles, so everytime I moved my hand, it really hurt!
Inbetween my toes and it was so painful!
Behind the knee, pure itching agony!
Norfolk
On my neck
has to be on the foot, shoes always aggravated and it never stopped being itchy!!
On the end of my nose. I looked like a Rudolf the Reindeer tribute act!
Between 2 of my fingers – my whole hand swelled up right up to the wrist
On my eyelid – the swelling closed my eye completely and made me look distinctly unattractive.
On my face
knee
Just this week, on my neck…it looked like I was growing an Adam’s apple!
midge bites on my eyelid because I could feel them with every blink and Scottish midge bites last for weeks,vile!
on the back of my neck….as i cant see it and calm my niggling mind that its just an insect bite and not the start of some horrific disease like smallpox!! haha!
I had a horse fly bite on my eyelid which swelled up so much that I look like I’d done 10 rounds with David Haye.
When I was in Mexico I had hundreds of bites which all went septic. The worst ones were between each of my fingers, they turned into massive blood blisters 🙁
on my eyelid!mega annoying!
Embarrassingly on my bottom and now i have a big scar 🙁 I couldn’t sit down or walk without crying for days haha what a holiday but I am able to laugh about it now!
In my arm pit. It was very itchy and I couldn’t shave for days.
They’re all awful, when I visit my sister in Mallorca I tend to get bites around my ankles that swell up horribly. But the most annoying would have been in a rather embarrassing place…weeing in bushes when out walking for miles in the hills is a dangerous occupation!
middle of back where cannot be scratched!! 🙂
Always getting bitten on my ankles – grrr….
On my ear. My ear all swelled up.
I had one a bite at the end of my nose – looked hideous and spoilt my holiday.
In between my thumb and finger :S
on my hand drove me up the wall keep itching it
Middle of my back – just couldn’t reach it! Drove me crazy. I wanted to do a Baloo from Jungle Book and keep rubbing my back against trees and things.
on my ankle, which then turned into cellulitis, I couldn’t walk for 2 weeks and was on antibiotics for 3
An intamate area on my boob very annoying
on my ear, so annoying, for such a small thing
On my nose – It looked more like a spot than an insect bite!
I’ve started swelling up after getting bitten so anyway is very annoying as it seems to irritate everything
my forehead
My ankles
My ankle. I kept scratching it with the sandal that was on my other foot. It got infected, the infection spread up my leg and I became really ill.
on my cheek
on the corner of my eyebrow near the eye lid, it swelled so much I could hardly open my eye for a day
on my toe you cant itch it properly very annoying!
On the top of my foot
back of the hand
On the back of my neck
On the arm,, so itchy afterwards,
On the back of my knee; It was murder every time I tried to bend it.
On my belly. It turned septic and ended u in hospital on iv antibiotics after having it lanced in theatre.
Between my toes
On my back – where it’s unreachable!
I’d rather not say!! It was in a rather intimate area!!
On my nose. It came up as an embarrassing red spot.
At the back of my knee.
On my eyelids!
The most annoying bite i had was between the fingers, so annoying.
They re all annoying, sooooo itchy
On my hip-just where my trouser waistband would be sure to rub against it!
On my feet a couple of weeks ago, twenty bites on one foot and fifteen on the other! There was only the tiniest bit of flesh showing and the little blighters found it.
My bum cheek! Most awkward place ever!
On my forehead and into my hairline
on my bum! Very embarrassing to scratch
my ankle – right on the bone
on the top of my foot, which swelled up so I was unable to where shoes and my foot hurt every time I stood on it.
In Nirthumberland at Kielder last weeek – everywhere !!!!!
Between my big toe and the toe next to it
entered
on my foot i hate it 😉
In my armpit ! Really itchy and uncomfortable !
On My Eyelid, which swelled up. I looked like I had been in a fight!
On my neck
Elbow
On my eye, it swelled so bad I could hardly see
On the back of my leg near the top. Everytime I went to sit down it hurt!
Africa
On the back of my knee, right in the crease of the joint – so painful!
Just the thing for my trip to Goa
on the side of my nose
On my nose .. It wasn’t all that painful,or itchy after the initial sting .. but, if seemed to me that I had the Himalayas on the side of my nose. I almost went crossed eyed looking at it .. although, everyone else said it was the size of a pin prick!
Sole of my foot
A wasp sting in my nostril
Scunthorpe
my toe
133 bits from the neck up (midgy bites) – I looked a right mess!
On my foot, i am so ticklish i couldn’t touch it!
My face ruined holiday pics
On my legs, they look terrible!
I had three infected mosquito bits on my eye lid (whilst I was sleeping) when I woke in the morning my eye was so swollen I couldn’t open it!
Looked like the elephant man!
My inner thigh
On my bottom…
Definitely my bottom!
had a bite on my earlobe
Next to my eye
On the back of my knee
On the end of my nose (last week) and its still a bit red 🙁
On the back of the knee.
I was bitten on my chin – very visible, sore and irritating!
Side of my nose.
They just love my legs
on the thumb, right on the joint so every time I bent it, it really hurt!
on my baby toe!!!
Behind my knee, it swelled up so much i couldn’t bend it!
On the underside of my ‘index’ toe 🙁
On my face – yuck
My nose!
inside my ear. Impossible to treat or scratch
My face
forehead! whats worse is it looked like a massive spot and i kept scratching it without thinking until i had a massive scab! shame!
just come back from Monterrico and the mossies were bad, i got a bite on my thumb right near my thumb nail…was really annoying
Always my feet! I always end up scratching them raw
Ankle – for some reason the itchiest place
last time I was bitten I had a trail of bites all the way up my leg, very itchy and annoying
both ankles!
on my wrist whilst fast asleep
ankles definatly!
in my cleavage 🙁
On my neck!
In Tunisia om my bum!
under my armpit
The back of my leg where it bends it got soooooo itchy!
Ankles & legs.
On my elbow, doubled in size!!
under the strap of my hiking sandals (although under the underwired bit of my bra comes close second)
On the top of my foot. It became so swollen I couldn’t get my shoe on. My girlfriend thought it was justice as the same happened to her on holiday the previous year
bottom of your foot!
my nose
On my foot!
the back of my legs, they get so itchy
Toe same thing rubbing shoes!
On the cheek
Back of knees!!
just in my lip, it gave me a thick lip making it looked like some one had hit me
my armpit
back of my knee
in between my toes
Sole of my foot
On my feet – they swelled up so I couldn’t get my shoes on for a week
my knees
Between my fingers ;s
On my knuckle
Got one right now under my arm near the armpit, it’s very puffed up and stings like hell every time it rubs against my clothes (which is all the time!)
On my big toe
Right in the middle of my back
My ear
On the top of my head
On my shoulder blade – couldn’t reach to itch it and couldn’t see the damage 🙁
On my ankle – very itchy!
ON THE END OF MY NOSE
Groin 🙁
I won an incentive at work and was sent to a hotel in Florence that was riddled with bedbugs. I didnt know until it was too late and had over 40 bites all over my body including on my ears, it was horrendous!
Going to Venice in 4 weeks and there the mosquitoes are called tiger mosquitoes, I desperately need something to stop me getting bitten to death
My blood is tasty to these little blighters and I always seem to get bitten but the most annoying/painful one was on my eyelid – ouch
testicle
FOOT!
on my face!
On the crease of my elbow!! Although on one holiday to Italy four years ago, I got a total of ….. 56 bites all over my body!!!! With love, Faye xx
I got badly bitten by mosquitos in Canda 2 years ago. The burning itch drove me demented! the worst one has to be in my ear(they got everywhere!) cos I couldn’t get a decent scratch at it!
In the erm……testicular area!
I hate insects 😛
under my bra strap ouch
I got bitten on the eyebrow 2 years ago ..and there’s still a red mark!
on the sole of my foot
My waist. It rubbed on all skirts and trousers and I didn’t have anything in the way of winter dresses when I returned home!
on my ear , swelled up and incredibly uncomfortable , was in italy distracted me from the lovely food!!
In the gents toilets at Athens airport
In the garden!! Sorry, couldn’t resist that – the worst place was on my face as it showed.
bottom of my foot
If there’s a bug it bites me! My grandma threw out a bed when I was younger thinking it was that but I guess I am just tasty and react quite badly too anything!
foot
On my willey!
Well when i went to barbados I got biten from head to toe and my leg even swelled up but the ones on my neck really hurt 🙁
On my Ankle when doing a trekking holiday, so wearing walking boots with a swollen ankle/leg/foot that rubbed the bite was really not fun!!! This is how I got the knickname ‘CankleEater’ from my lovely frineds!!!
I have been stung behind my ear by a wasp before and that was rather annoying.
In the middle of my back.
back of my knee
Oh that has to be in-between my fingers! It rubbed all the time 🙁
My toe- rubbed on shoes and I couldn’t itch it with shoes on!
On my face
middle of my back
most annoying has to be on my foot .. it was ooozy for weeks
on the face!
i’ve got one on my thigh right now!
I think the only time i’ve been bit was by a bee when i was like 3 years old – guaranteed i get bit later on today now 🙁
on my ankle
face definitely
Face!
I was once bitten on the skin between my forefinger and middle finger. So annoying!
Under my bra strap
Inbetween my fingers, it was made far more itchy than other bites I’ve had due to the rubbing and it being made warmer from whenever I held my fingers closed together.
Back of the knee too, as that was ridiculously itchy, think the skin is more sensitive there, along with being made too warm whenever my knee was bent.
nice prize
Where the waistband of my trousers goes, really annoying!
A bee sting on my bum when I was at the lido. It came up the size of an orange!
Right on the knobbly bit of my ankle – it was really hard to scratch it effectively
Elbow – why oh why?!
Inside thigh! Don’t know how it got there but you certainly couldn’t itch it in public!! 🙂
between my thighs
got bitten on my foot, it swelled up and made it painful to wear shoes for a while!
inside ankle where every pair of shoes rubs and irritates it!
Face 🙁
Looked awful and itched terribly.
behind my knee
All insect bites are annoying and they LIKE me whereas they leave my husband alone, however the most annoying place I was bitten was on my heel in the hard skin so it didn’t matter how hard I scratched I just couldn’t get to it.
I got bitten 5 times on the sole of my foot… made it very hard to walk!!
anywhere is annoying – esp hate face
I WAS BITTEN THREE TIMES ON THE CHEST LAST WEEK WHILE WORKING IN THE GARDEN. THE AREA SWELLED UP, BECAME VERY HARD, WAS VERY ITCHY, RED AND VERY SORE. HAD TO WEAR COLLAR BLOUSE TO HIDE THE DREADFUL AREA.
on my ankle
On the side of my neck!
On my face
my hand
On the backside when I had to stop in the bushes to relieve myself at night on the way back from a club – my bum was covered in irritating bites!!!
Face , EW!
On the scalp, nicely hidden by hair but unfortunately right on top of a a bump I had the previous day. It itched like mad but was agony to touch and I couldn’t get cream onto it without making my hair look greasy.
On my back the bit i cant reach
Under my armpit!
I had a mossie bite on my achiles tendon area of my heal which turned into a big huge boil – yuk I couldn’t even get my shoes on!
This will kep the SPOOKY BUGS away in this country
Too much of a gentleman even to mention where!