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<blockquote data-quote="Osca" data-source="post: 3737466" data-attributes="member: 11501"><p>My Great Aunt Ivy, a formidable lady, had this theory that it was the "sweetness of the blood" that the midges and gnats enjoyed and that some people had sweet blood and were bitten, and others had sour blood and were not. She was a martyr to gnat-bites, unlike our side of the family. She further theorised that being "sweet-blooded" went with being sweet-natured and generally attractive to man and beast, whereas sour-blooded people, like those on our side of the family, were sour to the core.</p><p></p><p>She was, however, living proof that this theory didn't hold water.</p><p></p><p>It did get me thinking, though. Genes must play a part; maybe also diet? or immune reaction? Can you get acclimatised to midges? </p><p></p><p>With horses it is the animal's own reaction to midge bites that causes problems such as sweet-itch - but are these animals also more attractive to midges in the first place?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Osca, post: 3737466, member: 11501"] My Great Aunt Ivy, a formidable lady, had this theory that it was the "sweetness of the blood" that the midges and gnats enjoyed and that some people had sweet blood and were bitten, and others had sour blood and were not. She was a martyr to gnat-bites, unlike our side of the family. She further theorised that being "sweet-blooded" went with being sweet-natured and generally attractive to man and beast, whereas sour-blooded people, like those on our side of the family, were sour to the core. She was, however, living proof that this theory didn't hold water. It did get me thinking, though. Genes must play a part; maybe also diet? or immune reaction? Can you get acclimatised to midges? With horses it is the animal's own reaction to midge bites that causes problems such as sweet-itch - but are these animals also more attractive to midges in the first place? [/QUOTE]
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