Paid volunteers will bear their arms, one with repellent and one without to test its effectiveness.
The firm also runs the Scottish Midge Forecast which predicts numbers from data collected by midge traps and mini-weather stations across Scotland.Dr Blackwell said that numbers have fallen recently because of the drier warmer summer earlier in the year.
But last week, while camping in the Highlands, professional wildlife photographer James Roddie, 34, came under attack from a swarm and captured it on video.He said: "I personally wouldn't want to take part in a test, simply as I spend a lot of my working life dealing with midges anyway."They can make things quite uncomfortable, even whilst wearing a midge net and using repellent.
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