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Unfortunately, due to supplier issues the Midgeater range is currently not available. Please call Ayr Calor Centre on 01292 267893 for the latest supply update or simply enter your details in th form below, we'll email you when stock becomes available (We will never disclose your personal information to 3rd parties).

You can still order Octenol Bait and Catch Bags using the links below.

Midge Facts & Figures

• Independent research among tourists visiting Scotland and staying at campsites, bed and breakfast accommodation and youth hostels conducted during the midge season indicated that the majority would not return to Scotland at that time of the year in future, because of the midge.**1 The peak midge season of June to August directly matches the Scottish tourist season.
• It is estimated that in some parts of Scotland, one single hectare of land may host up to five biting midges for every man, woman and child in Scotland - a rate of 10 million midges per acre.
• Midge attacks can result in the loss of up to one fifth of all forestry working days in Scotland.**2
• Midges are likely to increase their range and length of season if Scotland's climate changes as the result of global warming.
• The majority of Scottish midges don't bite. Only females bite and of 34 or more different species only five bite people, and 90% of midge bites are from just one species - Culicoides Impunctatus.
• Midges cause sweet-itch, a debilitating and incurable problem which affects up to one in twenty of the UK's horses and ponies.
• Children's summer camps in the Highlands have on occasions had to be abandoned because of midges and outdoor activity centres frequently have to re-plan their programmes around midge activity.
• One leading firm of chartered surveyors is believed to advise clients not to put their property on the market during the midge season.
• Midges have been around in Scotland for some 8000 years.

The midge has been biting people in Scotland for some 8000 years, it causes leisure activities to be abandoned and can even make selling property difficult.

**1 Another more recent survey, carried out by Dr Alison Blackwell of Edinburgh University, among tourists in camp-sites, bed and breakfast accommodation and youth hostels, indicated that two-thirds of the visitors felt that midges had put them off from returning to Scotland at that particular time of year: Midges in Scotland, George Hendry.

**2 Midges in Scotland: George Hendry.