People who eat either shouldn't be allowed out in public. They are little
more than brewery waste - the dead yeast scraped off the walls of the vats.
You can persuade people to buy/eat anything with the right advertising
campaign. Bovril rules, OK?!
A park ranger of my acquaintance claims that mossies/sandflies/horse flies
are not attracted to muted colours like dull greens, browns, beige but to
bright white and light, bright colours. When he told me this, I was being
bitten badly and he was untouched - I looked down and the biters were
clustered on the edge of my white socks. Later observation bears out his
claim. CO2 is a bit unreliable in the open with a breeze - they use more
than this.
>Anecdotal evidence suggests that people who eat Marmite are much less
>likely to get bitten by mozzies. For list members not familiar with
>Marmite, it's a yeast extract, thick and black, which is slapped
>liberally on bread and toast. Stuffed full of vitamin B12, which is
>supposed to end up concentrated in your skin, and which mosquitoes do
>not like. I don't know if the same is said of Vegemite, the weak and
>inferior Australian yeast extract product (I speak as a Marmite purist).
>
>Roger
>
>"James N. McBride" wrote:
>>
>> Actually rubbing yourself with ashes is even better than ordinary dirt. When
>> I fought forest fires the mosquitoes never were a problem. /jnm
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