[doorgunner69]

Supposedly it’s your blood type.

I tested the wife no long ago as she had no idea what her type was. Turns out we are both O+.

Good theory though, but I still think some sort of body chemistry thing is at work. Mebbe all the rum I consume?

Nah, no booze in SEA and they ate me alive there. They would bite right through my utility trousers while I tried to sleep. Used to bundle up in a flak jacket and wear a gas mask to get some sleep. Beeeeeeeeeee........

[Eagles6]

Worst ones I dealt with were Algonquin Provincial Park in the 70s. You could see clouds of them form over the lakes at dusk then move in.

Black flies in June then skeeters. Nothing at the time worked.

Stand in the smoke of the fire or go into the tent. Fill the tent with pipe smoke and then kill the ones that got in on the netting.

They were little but bit thru the back pockets of your jeans.

Probably blood type, body chemistry, diet and just ornriness on their part.