I suspect we've all experienced the "perfect bug storm" from time to time, and the hard bit is keeping your sanity during it--I can do it sometimes and fail completely other times.

Best story I've heard is a friend of the family who went on a year-long cross-Arctic adventure. At peak mosquito season they'd each have their own skeeter cloud in camp. The trick was to pass another camper closely enough to hand off your cloud to him and scamper off. Then you could have a few minutes of peace.

Evidently they all got quite good at it.

Cheers,