dog-pecker gnats are terrible at this time of year. What solution hath ye?

stay inside

I have some coat spray I apply on my dogs and it seems to help with this.

I could picture some redneck from my hometown saying "put yew sum chaw on dem dog pecker gnat then watch them go away while you eat some of them vy-eenie sausages."

This thread is too Louisiana for me

Don't currently have a dog, just the term of endearment I've given those nasty pests. Asking more for human consumption when they're constantly buzzing your face while outdoors in this heat.

Cut a hole in the seat of your pants and they will get out of your face. Keep in mind that the ones in your face were recently around someone with a hole in the seat of their pants.....

I was told this once by a laborer about 70 years old. He and I were digging a ditch together, mostly him, and the gnats were thick. He never complained about them, they likened to have drove me insane. He told me the hole in the pants trick. Do not know if it actually works but I do know his pants had holes in them and he did not seem to be bothered by gnats.

I've both lived in Louisiana and owned dogs almost my entire life (I'm in my 50's) and I've never heard of this?

Is your dogs decker possessed? Maybe dead?