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For me, I think you're 100% correct. I have to go to two outdoor functions this weekend and Deet will definitely be in my truck for back-up.
Les...perhaps I'm coming across a bit hyperbolic but I'm not that bad off,man. It's just that these 6 bites are about the size of grapes now and have a formed scab at the middle tip and still itch like a summabich. I don't recall my previous chigger nightmare being like this but, it was Texas. Could it be some type of flea or something called a Midge?
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Nope, I am telling ya, I got the little buggers down at Hood, and my nuts did, they swelled up like grapefruits, I tried to get my buddy to take a picture for posterity. Sean's methods do work, seriously.
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Bob, just don't scratch em, it breaks the egg sacks.
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I know you too well now. Can't scare me!
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I hunted in shorts was in all kinds of crap and was half naked all weekend and didnt even get as much as a skeeter bite.....
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Nothin to worry about, I'm sure.
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Me either. Did you get around any dead stuff Bob? I mean other than fresh dead?
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I hunted in shorts was in all kinds of crap and was half naked all weekend and didnt even get as much as a skeeter bite..... ============== Bugs can't penetrate 100% pure virgin olive oil.
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Pat...don't know if it was that still hunt and setting in a
the dry gravel bed and high grass behind that foreman's house down off the river or if they got inside the cabin and got me while I was sleeping.
Heck if I really know. I never felt the sting and I was stone cold sober.Hmmm...maybe I'm now on to something.
It's just 6 bites,man. 6 big, weird ones
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You mean you didn't feel them bite?
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Not a one. But, they were all in a place where I didn't spray on any Deet, that I do know.
Lt...are you messing with me?
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Get a q-tip and dip it in ammonia,then gently roll it over the chiggers... Repeat as necessary and they'll be gone in a day...
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I told you not to worry about it. It ain't like one of those little fish swam up your pecker.
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Hell, those bites ain't nothing compared to bugs that await you in Africa Bob.
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I hunted in shorts was in all kinds of crap and was half naked all weekend and didnt even get as much as a skeeter bite..... ============== Bugs can't penetrate 100% pure virgin olive oil. Hey!....I resemble that comment
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Might be something to that Dan.
I am Italian too, no bites on me.
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Hell, those bites ain't nothing compared to bugs that await you in Africa Bob. =================== That thought has passed through my mind a bunch the last couple days. Deet on my skin and permethrin sprayed long sleeve shirts, pants and hat,for me. I really think the insects came up my pants leg and openings in my short sleeve safari shirt I was testing out. Only sprayed a bit up from my socks and my arms up to the short sleeve. I learned a lesson. I've been researching a bit. Could it be deer fly bites? Looks like they could be.
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You KNOW when a deer fly bites, since you didn't feel anything and from the general description I would think it was from a Recluse spider, very active at night and you never feel it.
You best go to the doctor.
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No. Deer flys hurt like the dickens when they bite.
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I saw that grotesque recluse pic straight away. It might have worked on Les, though. I also know you well enough!
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