Cycle shirt colour to avoid bugs

[jimmybog]

Need to get a new cycle shirt for summer and have a choice of two colours: Red or Black. I need a colour which will not attract bugs such as rapeseed bugs. Does anyone know which of the two colours mentioned will best suit my needs please? Thx

 

[w00hoo_kent]

I only seem to have trouble with yellow or white ones, mostly yellow. I'd have thought black would be least likely with red not very.

 

[Schneil]

Seconded on avoiding yellow. I was a moving target for lots of little black flies in East Yorkshire a few years back (?Thunderbugs?). I was wearing a Decathalon yellow jersey and it's still got fly stains from where I accidentally splatted the little critters.

 

[Schneil]

Need to get a new cycle shirt for summer and have a choice of two colours: Red or Black. I need a colour which will not attract bugs such as rapeseed bugs. Does anyone know which of the two colours mentioned will best suit my needs please? Thx

Seconded on avoiding yellow. I was a moving target for lots of little black flies in East Yorkshire a few years back (?Thunderbugs?). I was wearing a Decathalon yellow jersey and it's still got fly stains from where I accidentally splatted the little critters.

Actually I think rapeseed bugs might be the same thing as thunderbugs, so definitely avoid yellow!

 

[jimmybog]

Thanks everyone, appreciate your help. I have been wearing yellow and have attracted swarms of them. Have now ordered a black/blue jersey

 

[numbnuts]

Don't get yellow.....as I found out the other day

 

[slowmotion]

Another vote for not yellow.

 

[DaveReading]

Don't get yellow.....as I found out the other day

That's OK then, I doubt I'll ever graduate to wearing a yellow jersey.

 

[Milkfloat]

I try to avoid black - not because of the bugs, but the heat. I find the bugs avoid my shirt and aim for my mouth.

 

[w00hoo_kent]

That's OK then, I doubt I'll ever graduate to wearing a yellow jersey.

I wish, Yellow Cow Cycle Shop in Wisconsin has a Yellow Jersey for their shop jersey, though it is a very sporty cut and I'm a very leisurely shape so I don't wear it very often anyway.

 

[Angry Blonde]

Venus fly trap shirt ?

 

[Arjimlad]

When my Dad kept bees they hated the dyes in man-made blue clothing. So we avoided that.

I had a wasp sting me through a blue cycling top the other summer. It decided to hang around and sting me about a bit rather than just bounce off as usual.

 

[w00hoo_kent]

When my Dad kept bees they hated the dyes in man-made blue clothing. So we avoided that.

I had a wasp sting me through a blue cycling top the other summer. It decided to hang around and sting me about a bit rather than just bounce off as usual.

Was it at the end of summer? They're grumpy bastards at the end of summer.

 

[Arjimlad]

Yes, I think it was. I squashed it but had about three stings on my tum.

 

[w00hoo_kent]

Apparently the drones are no longer of any use come the end of summer so they stop being able to eat (their mouths heal over or some such?) so they just starve to death and it makes them cranky. You know how the best thing for a bad mood is to share it around...

I probably read it on the internet, so it may not be true. I tend to be a lot more wary of them come September though.