Sandfly season - when is it?

Sunnycee


Joined: 18/05/2009
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Message Posted:
18/05/2009 11:47

Hi!

I'm new to this-have been dropping in for a couple of weeks and find it very informative!

Please could you answer a question for me? When is sandfly season? When we've been out in mar/april we

dont seem to be bothered but in sept i end up looking like a pizza!

sc

AndyP



Joined: 18/04/2008
Posts: 517

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 11:48

Sandflies are here now!!!!



Been testing loads of sprays etc.. The only one that seems to work for me is that Avon Skin So Soft (Dry Oil Spray).

The-Wicks


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Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 11:51

Can highly recommend Avon Skin So Soft products. I just slather the whole range on - better safe than sorry



J

smithy


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Message Posted:
18/05/2009 11:55

Andyp

Hi This is the first time for me with Avon Skin so Soft as my neighbour bought me some over, it is great nearly used one bottle and not a bite in sight, not had any of the other ranges but hopefully some one will bring me some more over SOON

keep well hope to see you on the 5th

Sheila x

keithr


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Message Posted:
18/05/2009 11:56

Where can you buy this Avon product ???

kiwikid


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Message Posted:
18/05/2009 11:58

They've started already in Lefkosa. the way I usually fight the little buggers is to go at them full force, I spray the bedrooms everynight with Raid making sure I get under the beds and behind the doors, I have the plugin liquid Not the tabets as these only work for about 6 hours, And just to be sure I have mossi nets on all the beds which I spray with fly spray as well. If you have an Air conditioner it helps, as does a fan as it blows them around.

After all this I usually manage to get a good nights sleep.

If I'm going out, I use the Avon so soft and that works too.

Good luck, and be perpared!!!

Angela

kiwikid


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Posts: 496

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 12:01

There is a Avon Lady here her name is Joanne and you can buy all Avon product from her, her number is 05338460644

jock1



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Message Posted:
18/05/2009 12:02

Due to the high rain fall last winter there will be more sand fly and mosquito this summer, oh we're doomed....

Hurmus



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Posts: 37

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 12:05

sandflies are all over this end I find useing Chinese Tiger Balm amazing its stops the sweling and the itching within minutes.



Recomend to all.

H.

smithy


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Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 12:09

Kiwikid I spray like you every room with Raid then close doors, and with this amazing Avon product not been bitten yet, put it on every time I go out or sit on the balcony

Keithr I had a friend bring me some over but already used one of the sprays only 2 to go so must get some ordered worth giving the Avon rep over here a ring but make sure its the blue spray plastic bottle

Sheila

fire starter


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Posts: 3401

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 12:11

remember to get a collar to protect your dogs as well!

Sunnycee


Joined: 18/05/2009
Posts: 192

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 12:13

Thanks for that! I had heard about the Avon - took some out in April but didnt need it thankfully but have started stocking up for sept. The are buy one get one free at the moment a real batgain if it stops me looking

like a pizza lol

smithy


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Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 12:27

Sunnycee

You are lucky as you get Avon Reps in the UK so you can stock up and know when they have special offers, you said you were lucky and didnt need it, I put it on regardless when I go out better safe than sorry.

Sheila

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 12:36

Sheila - since I found out the stuff actually works (on me, anyway) I've become a bit paranoid. Like you, I slather on the whole range whenever I go out!!



Jean

Sunnycee


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Posts: 192

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 12:41

will get some tiger balm as well just in case then!

smithy


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Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 12:50

Jean I dont know the other Avon products for bites but this one is super, I probably go over the top when putting it on but hey who cares.

So happy to have found out about it thanks to the forum members

Sheila

Sunnycee


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Posts: 192

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 13:59

Good advice Sheila it is better to be safe than sorry. What amazes me is my other half never seems to get nibbled! Could understand it if he slept in a different room or something! I obviously must be sweeter than

he is

The-Wicks


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Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 14:04

Sheila - sorry, didn't express that very well. What I meant was I use the whole range of Skin So Soft stuff - shower cream, moisturiser, dry oil spray, etc. etc.



Cant't be too careful! Funny thing is, the mossies never bother me - just the other little sods



J

x

smithy


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Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 14:11

Jean

Thats what I meant I didnt know there were other ranges of skin so soft as I was only told about one didnt know they made shower cream etc. god I cant ask friends to get me any more they will tell me to bug off. its true I used to get bitten more from the other little mites than mozzee's now they seem to leave me alone must be the smell this Avon stuff gives out, thank god.

Take care. Sheila xx

CyprusChill


Joined: 08/05/2009
Posts: 666

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 14:14

All good and sound advice, i had a bad spell last year as did one of my kids, the rest were fine it puzzles me.

I was also advised to take a course of vitamin D, unsure why but i will experiment for sure this time round.

scoobydoo


Joined: 10/11/2008
Posts: 2434

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 14:21

I am now going to try Avon skin so soft.



I take vitamin b1 tablets not vitamin d and personally they have made a huge difference in the amount of 'nasty' mossie bites i get. I can buy these from the chemist in Catalkoy, next to Donaghy and Beyler

briggus


Joined: 25/07/2007
Posts: 161

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 14:51

I would say it must have started in April. As some people have stated the damp weather must have been to their liking. (Bites are not usually that much of a problem early on)

Within a week of returning home from N Cyprus (admittedly with only a few bites) I developed flu like symptoms without the runny nose and it was not pleasant.

Looking up the symptoms of Sand Fly Fever I could tick all but one of them. For my very first time I have had to take a week off work due to sickness - having returned it still levaes you feeling run down and weakand having to take a course of Anti Biotics.



I will be taking even more precautions to prevent getting it again - hopefully it will not be as bad the second time around should I be bitten again.

Arthur


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Posts: 687

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 15:02

Jock 1 [msg 8]



Don't I remember you from "Dad's Army" ??



Can you roll your eyes as well??

Moover321


Joined: 11/04/2009
Posts: 649

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 15:12

How long does the sand fly season last?

kaiserphil


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Posts: 1096

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 15:15

Stupid boy Pike!

Geoff1131MK11


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 396

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 15:19

Sand fly season, when is it?





Its now! ow! ow! ow!





Little sods where's that fly spray.

millzer


Joined: 12/04/2007
Posts: 978

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 16:02

http://www.alternativeinsectrepellent.co.uk/?gclid=CIKiiYr2xZoCFYh_3god8Fm5qA



http://avonshop.co.uk/shop/search.asp?

millzer


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Posts: 978

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 16:04

forgot to say just put 'skin so soft' in the avon search bar.

millzer


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Message Posted:
18/05/2009 16:07

Oops not doing very well here. :-( Put in skin so soft body spray.

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
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Message Posted:
18/05/2009 16:09

Sheila - a shame that it's too late for me to bring you some over, but my Avon catalogue was returned to the lady last evening. However, I could bring you some in September. It's not expensive at all, just a couple of pounds and they often have it on special offer.



Could we speak about it nearer the time if you're interested?



J

x

smithy


Joined: 17/07/2008
Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 16:20

many thanks Jean whenever you can get some i would be so grateful

whatever you can bring, will try to remind you.

Sheila xxx

chrism


Joined: 27/10/2008
Posts: 1465

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 16:51

Hi Firestarter, do you no where i can get a collar for my dog to help against the sand flies?

Thanks

millzer


Joined: 12/04/2007
Posts: 978

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 16:55

The-Wicks,



Avon website currently 5 x £3.00 per bottle + £3.50 postage = £18.50 (£3.70 per bottle)



Ebay (Avon agent) for 5 botles works out at £12.60 delivered (£2.52 per bottle)



What sort of specials do Avon do? Also I presume if you use ding dong Avon there is no delivery charge, yes?

RedSnapper


Joined: 12/08/2008
Posts: 540

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 17:05

What do sand flies look like and can you feel it when they land on you?

smithy


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Posts: 5301

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 17:08

millzer

Thanks for the info but alas we cant get letters out here so I doubt if I ordered on the net I would have no chance of receiving anything.

have to rely on good friends

sheila

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 17:20

Millzer - they have special offers on various products all the time - can't tell until the Ding Dong lady comes with the brochure. The main reason I offered to bring some over was someone told me that Avon stuff was more expensive in TRNC than here and, as Sheila pointed out, the problems with trying to get post.



J

The-Wicks


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Message Posted:
18/05/2009 17:25

RedSnapper - that's the flaming problem - you can't see them! You can't feel them when they land on you either! You only know they've been 'visiting' when you come out in a red, very itchy lump that turns into a blister-type thing. These leave red scars which can take ages to go. The other big problem is that some people get very bad reactions to sandfly bites - there were a lost of postings here, either last year or year before, when one chap had an adverse reaction and was the under the care of the hospital in UK for ages. They also manage to get through fly screens. As I said - you cant be too careful with the perishers.



J



Locals are bitten by them as well - it's not just 'us'

RedSnapper


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Posts: 540

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 17:50

Blinkin`eck... they sure sound horrible little things. When i was there last Xmas i got quite a few bites and i thought they were mossies but some were worse than usual and sound like you describe.

I feel ill for two days and had flue like symptoms and someone told me it could be sand fly or Cyprus sickness. My pal got bitten on the legs whilst clearing the garden weeds last October and they swelled up and went really blotchy and then he fell ill and was laid up for a couple of days, might have been them...

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 18:33

Hi all I had sandfly fever last year and its not nice. I have been buying the blue and its only the blue which works on them. Sorry meant to say skin so soft. Its a lot more expensive here and no offers. Best to be safe though. I find the little buggers love pefume. Jean if its no problem could you get me a bottle aslo. Thank you. Firestarter where do you get the special gog collars please. Lilli xxx

Sunnycee


Joined: 18/05/2009
Posts: 192

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 19:18

Lilli

I was told exactly that. Evidently the pink dry oil gel and showergel etc doesnt seem to work.

If i see any special offers in the brochure from the ding dong Avon lady i will let you know on here but obviously that probably wont be a lot of help for you over there- if that makes sense?

The-Wicks


Joined: 27/05/2007
Posts: 2279

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 19:22

Lilli - sorry it's too late for this time, but will stock up for September and hope none of you get bitten before then!!



RedSnapper - yes, they sound like sandfly bites certainly. The worry is that if you are one of the unlucky ones, won't know until you've been nobbled!!



J

sporty


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Posts: 685

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 19:51

thanks all on this thread,i've just ordered a bottle of avon oh so soft on ebay,hope it gets delivered before saturday,over next week,did'nt even know there was a sandfly problem! Can anyone recommend a product that'll stop the wife bothering me aswell?cheap aftershave and a guts full of cider doesnt always work!!lol.

millzer


Joined: 12/04/2007
Posts: 978

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 21:21

Sporty,



Regarding your misses bothering you Avon now have a product to counter that too, it's called;



"Avoni've had a skinful so shut the **** up

Moover321


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Posts: 649

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 21:26

When does the sand fly season end???

jenfarrall


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Posts: 297

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 22:14

Hi Lilli

Firdez has mossie/sandfly collars ,25tl and they are effective for 3 months ,don't get them wet though!! Presume all vets will stock them? Garfields is closertry there unless your due a trip to Firdez x

Coachie



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Posts: 2135

Message Posted:
18/05/2009 22:31

The Wicks..Jean ,go on their website and order,we had ours in about three days..

Lilli



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Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
19/05/2009 20:16

hi Jean no worries i will order from my friend here. sunny it makes perfect sense i miss the offers and i love all skin creams eye creams etc. started my F/f this week my face lift fund. these late nights are taking thier toll. Im a sucker for any anti aging cream xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx