> 100% DEET (you can get it in Alaska) does the trick for about 30 minutes before you have to re-apply
July evening mosquitoes in Western Siberia tundra plains land onto and bite even freshly DEET-ed skin :)
> black fly season
1cm long - nah, 2 cm long - painful, yet usually can't get through clothes, 3 cm long - get you even through clothes like jeans, really painful and blood doesn't clot oozing through a 3mm razor cut.
July evening mosquitoes in Western Siberia tundra plains land onto and bite even freshly DEET-ed skin :)
> black fly season
1cm long - nah, 2 cm long - painful, yet usually can't get through clothes, 3 cm long - get you even through clothes like jeans, really painful and blood doesn't clot oozing through a 3mm razor cut.