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kawashima
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PostPosted: 12:17 - 13 May 2015    Post subject: flying bugs at night (tested yellow cellophane) Reply with quote

It's getting warmer. I wore half pants and T shirt, started riding at night along the river. A bunch of bugs flying toward me Sick I wore mask on my face, so I could avoid eating them.
And flying bugs hit my arms and legs, they are so annoying.
How do you cope with this?
Is there a light which doesn't allure bugs??
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PostPosted: 14:58 - 13 May 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

No, and I totally fail to understand how in the hell you can be even remotely comfortable with the idea of doing anything in shorts and T-shirt when you share a country with these evil bastards:
https://www.tofugu.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/japanese-giant-hornet-2.png
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PostPosted: 15:01 - 13 May 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bugs hitting my arms and legs would be a fucking blessing. The bastards seem to deliberately fly straight down my throat. Sick

Still, meat is meat and a man must eat!
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PostPosted: 15:13 - 13 May 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

nowhere.elysium wrote:
No, and I totally fail to understand how in the hell you can be even remotely comfortable with the idea of doing anything in shorts and T-shirt when you share a country with these evil bastards:
https://www.tofugu.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/japanese-giant-hornet-2.png



Pffffft.

https://horrorpediadotcom.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/248470-giant-monster-movies-godzilla-vs-mechagodzilla-lobby-card.jpg
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PostPosted: 15:33 - 13 May 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

nowhere.elysium wrote:
No, and I totally fail to understand how in the hell you can be even remotely comfortable with the idea of doing anything in shorts and T-shirt when you share a country with these evil bastards:
https://www.tofugu.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/japanese-giant-hornet-2.png

That's a huge hornet Shocked I was once stung in my forehead. It was much smaller bee though. It crashed me and stung me. (I didn't crash it) I felt irrationalness.
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Minty
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PostPosted: 15:35 - 13 May 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

kawashima wrote:
I felt irrationalness.


Using Google translate?
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kawashima
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PostPosted: 15:48 - 13 May 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

Minty wrote:
kawashima wrote:
I felt irrationalness.


Using Google translate?

Translation site I use suggested it Embarassed
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kawashima
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PostPosted: 16:09 - 13 May 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

For me, this type of mask is best for both avoiding bugs and breathing easily. Cons is I look like a suspicious person wearing this mask on my bicycle.
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Minty
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PostPosted: 18:32 - 13 May 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd say you'd look like an average Japanese person. Don't you all wear face masks?
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PostPosted: 19:13 - 13 May 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

Would 'helpless' be the word you wanted?

EDIT: Crap, I'm in the cycling forum. Aargh, I feel so dirty, gotta go disinfect myself. Pale
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PostPosted: 22:01 - 13 May 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

I found that yellow light won't allure bugs that much. I'm gonna test yellow film on my light Thumbs Up
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PostPosted: 13:40 - 14 May 2015    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bought yellow cellophane and did a test.
It was cooler than last night, wasn't a best day to do a test, but I found a some what difference between white and yellow light.
With yellow light, bugs don't fly straight into me.
They are like fog light of a car.
I spent only 130yen to do this test. This yellow light may be very helpful for me. I want to test it at hot summer night.

https://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b295/kawashima_/P1050726_zps9fhpnesf.jpg
https://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b295/kawashima_/P1050743_zps1jvkcfrl.jpg
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https://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b295/kawashima_/P1050750_zpsaysysev8.jpg
https://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b295/kawashima_/P1050749_zpslg2tcvei.jpg
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