No Seeums Are Stuck
Do you have No Seeums where you live? We have black flies in Maine and supposedly No Seeums, but we haven’t had any bad encounters with them, probably because we live on the breezy river and they blow away in the wind.
However, here in Charleston, South Carolina, they DO have No Seeums (a.k.a. Biting Midges) and you CAN see ‘em!
We had dinner this evening with our friend Harry Knickerbocker, who currently teaches Economics at the Citadel. He lives on his sailboat here. After a great dinner (Harry has some great stories from his international sailing adventures!), we were sitting in the RV chatting when a bug bit me. Then another took a bite, and another one. I noticed everybody else was slapping at themselves, too. We realized that a swarm of No Seeums has snuck in through our screen door and were now having their own dinner.
It was time for us to leave anyway, so we bid Harry a sad farewell and drove to the campground. Once here, we kept the door shut tight, not wanting to be eaten alive in our sleep. However, after about 15 minutes, I noticed a swarm of those darn critters by the light over our bed. I groaned when I realized the ceiling vent was open and they’d once again flown right through a screen.
I didn’t want to fill the RV with bug spray, so I had Ali grab my trusty can of hairspray. I figured out long ago that hairspray can not only stop pesky critters from flying, but can suffocate them as well. I went to work and we now have about 100 dead No Seeums stuck to the ceiling of the RV. In won! Heh… Needless to say, with the swarms out there, we’re all INSIDE the RV tonight.
Tomorrow we’re heading to Atlantic Beach, North Carolina. We’ll see my sister while we’re there and will be staying at a beautiful beachfront campground that we visited last year. See ya there!