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I got et up
Had my daughter at her crew practice so I took a walk an the nature
trail. By the time I got outta the woods my legs were itching and by Thur night I had obvious bites all over. Now, I am covered with itchy welts. YIKES, redbugs. I used to be immune to them what's going on here. I'd only get a few but this is major. Now I see why people hated them so much. Oddly, my entire family was immune to them but now I am not. |
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I got et up
On 10/18/09 5:04 PM, Frogwatch wrote:
Had my daughter at her crew practice so I took a walk an the nature trail. By the time I got outta the woods my legs were itching and by Thur night I had obvious bites all over. Now, I am covered with itchy welts. YIKES, redbugs. I used to be immune to them what's going on here. I'd only get a few but this is major. Now I see why people hated them so much. Oddly, my entire family was immune to them but now I am not. Your aroma and aura must attract them. -- Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. - John Stuart Mill |
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On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:04:32 -0700, Frogwatch wrote:
Had my daughter at her crew practice so I took a walk an the nature trail. By the time I got outta the woods my legs were itching and by Thur night I had obvious bites all over. Now, I am covered with itchy welts. YIKES, redbugs. I used to be immune to them what's going on here. I'd only get a few but this is major. Now I see why people hated them so much. Oddly, my entire family was immune to them but now I am not. What are red bugs? Chiggers? |
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On Oct 18, 5:28*pm, thunder wrote:
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:04:32 -0700, Frogwatch wrote: Had my daughter at her crew practice so I took a walk an the nature trail. *By the time I got outta the woods my legs were itching and by Thur night I had obvious bites all over. *Now, I am covered with itchy welts. *YIKES, redbugs. *I used to be immune to them what's going on here. *I'd only get a few but this is major. *Now I see why people hated them so much. *Oddly, my entire family was immune to them but now I am not. What are red bugs? *Chiggers? Chiggers, yup |
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#5
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On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:08:51 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch
wrote: On Oct 18, 5:28*pm, thunder wrote: On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:04:32 -0700, Frogwatch wrote: Had my daughter at her crew practice so I took a walk an the nature trail. *By the time I got outta the woods my legs were itching and by Thur night I had obvious bites all over. *Now, I am covered with itchy welts. *YIKES, redbugs. *I used to be immune to them what's going on here. *I'd only get a few but this is major. *Now I see why people hated them so much. *Oddly, my entire family was immune to them but now I am not. What are red bugs? *Chiggers? Chiggers, yup Try rubbing the bites with ammonia. It's amazingly effective on mosquito bites. |
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#6
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On 10/18/09 6:59 PM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:08:51 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch wrote: On Oct 18, 5:28 pm, wrote: On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:04:32 -0700, Frogwatch wrote: Had my daughter at her crew practice so I took a walk an the nature trail. By the time I got outta the woods my legs were itching and by Thur night I had obvious bites all over. Now, I am covered with itchy welts. YIKES, redbugs. I used to be immune to them what's going on here. I'd only get a few but this is major. Now I see why people hated them so much. Oddly, my entire family was immune to them but now I am not. What are red bugs? Chiggers? Chiggers, yup Try rubbing the bites with ammonia. It's amazingly effective on mosquito bites. And it will improve froggy's natural body aroma. -- Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. - John Stuart Mill |
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#7
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On Oct 18, 7:08*pm, H the K wrote:
On 10/18/09 6:59 PM, Wayne.B wrote: On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:08:51 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch *wrote: On Oct 18, 5:28 pm, *wrote: On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:04:32 -0700, Frogwatch wrote: Had my daughter at her crew practice so I took a walk an the nature trail. *By the time I got outta the woods my legs were itching and by Thur night I had obvious bites all over. *Now, I am covered with itchy welts. *YIKES, redbugs. *I used to be immune to them what's going on here. *I'd only get a few but this is major. *Now I see why people hated them so much. *Oddly, my entire family was immune to them but now I am not. What are red bugs? *Chiggers? Chiggers, yup Try rubbing the bites with ammonia. *It's amazingly effective on mosquito bites. And it will improve froggy's natural body aroma. -- Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. - John Stuart Mill I take two baths a year if'n I need em or not. Ya gotta build up an external crust to repel the skeeters and chiggers, thas what happed, my crust was too thin. |
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#8
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I got et up
H the K wrote:
On 10/18/09 6:59 PM, Wayne.B wrote: On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:08:51 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch wrote: On Oct 18, 5:28 pm, wrote: On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:04:32 -0700, Frogwatch wrote: Had my daughter at her crew practice so I took a walk an the nature trail. By the time I got outta the woods my legs were itching and by Thur night I had obvious bites all over. Now, I am covered with itchy welts. YIKES, redbugs. I used to be immune to them what's going on here. I'd only get a few but this is major. Now I see why people hated them so much. Oddly, my entire family was immune to them but now I am not. What are red bugs? Chiggers? Chiggers, yup Try rubbing the bites with ammonia. It's amazingly effective on mosquito bites. And it will improve froggy's natural body aroma. Another sad response from a "professional" writer. |
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#9
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#10
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On Oct 18, 7:52*pm, Vic Smith wrote:
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 19:12:09 -0400, wrote: On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:59:06 -0400, Wayne.B wrote: On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:08:51 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch wrote: On Oct 18, 5:28*pm, thunder wrote: On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:04:32 -0700, Frogwatch wrote: Had my daughter at her crew practice so I took a walk an the nature trail. *By the time I got outta the woods my legs were itching and by Thur night I had obvious bites all over. *Now, I am covered with itchy welts. *YIKES, redbugs. *I used to be immune to them what's going on here. *I'd only get a few but this is major. *Now I see why people hated them so much. *Oddly, my entire family was immune to them but now I am not. What are red bugs? *Chiggers? Chiggers, yup Try rubbing the bites with ammonia. *It's amazingly effective on mosquito bites. A paste of baking soda on fire ants, wasps and other acid based venom critters. The ones that eat you inject some kind of saliva but I am not sure about the pH of that. I got ate up down there about a month ago. Not sure what it was - maybe a combo of no-see-ums and some kind of little black fly that swarmed me as soon as we entered a nature preserve in Punta Gorda. Some nature preserve. *Just a place where they put a trail through the woods, and never spray. *Not fit for human beings. *Probably the only thing in there is bugs and the bugs that eat other bugs. Didn't get a good look as I didn't have my glasses on. Started to swat them off, but there were too many - so we ran like hell out of there. *Still see the spots on my legs. Good reason to never wear shorts in the woods. I tried the ammonia stuff Wayne suggested, among a few other things, but nothing helped to reduce the itching except time. Managed to resist scratching through sheer will power, but them things poisoned me good. *All that resisting makes you prone to drinking beer to make you forget about the itching. So there is an upside. Probably lost my resistance to bug bites. *Haven't been hit like that since I was a kid. *Hardly got my wife at all, and usually it's the reverse. --Vic When I as in college, one afternoon prob after smoking enough to have really poor judgement, 4 of us decided to go for a nice romantic campout on the coast in the dunes. We talked a friend into driving us down to Bald Point south of Tallahassee in the middle of nowhere and drop us off to pick us up the next day. Afternoon was ok but then the no-see-ums came out around dusk. We had no tent cuz we didnt expect rain and no sleeping bags cuz i was still summer and we was mizerable. No breeze at all. The only way to get relief was to stand in the middle of the paved road with 10 feet on either side to the sand. The density of no-see-ums was just a trifle lower in the middle of the road. To sleep, we would lay down in the road while somebody was appointed to look out for cars. No cars came the entire night. Funny now but wasnt then. |
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