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My word its peaceful here but there is a silent winged danger everywhere. I've been bitten by Mosquitos about 15 times so far but the day before yesterday I got 3 painful bites from a Horse Fly. One is about 1/2 an inch in diameter right now and all are starting to ooze ICKLE!!!

I think I said on another thread that if it bites, it bites me.

Man! I HATE the horse flies & the deer flies & the skeeters & gnats & chiggers & spiders & ticks & all else that bites...I've been told I eat too many bananas & too much meat & wear the wrong color clothes & that I go out at the wrong times of day & I really DO try to follow these rules of thumb only to find something biting the hell outta me anyway! I'm a magnet for it, I suppose...I even stood on a fire ant colony in Fla, once!

Aw hell, I even got bit by a copperhead...they say that you're more likely to be hit by lightning than to be bit by a poisonous snake...I stay in during the storms these days!

I guess I'm just a tasty guy...

Bet you don't miss the rooster though, Chip!

I just knew I wasn't the only one. I jump when I hear wings these days
erm Nah. Not one shiny itching lump bit.

philbymon wrote:I guess I'm just a tasty guy...
Bet you don't miss the rooster though, Chip!

These day's I am a city slicker mostly. I live about 15 minutes from Galveston Island, You haven't been bitten untill you have encounted a swarm of several million swamp mosqitoes these things are ravenous and relentless. Thank god the cities around here spray for these critters and they need lots of water to procreate. We have been in an unbievably dry hot drout. I got up last week and the week before to come to work and the thermometer in my truck read 90 and 91 degree's at 6:am but at least the skeeter population is down even though it has been 105 and 110 for highs. This morning on campus as I greeted some of my co workers I actually found myself saying it feels cooler this morning (84 degrees at 6:30 am) and the high is only supposed to reach 96 today (I'm Freezin) LOL! Anyway if and when we do get significant rainfall which we get a lot of here, there is going to be hell to pay because those mosquito larva are just laying there dormant and waiting to swarm and bite the living hell out of yours truley. Alas I have a saviour DEET (Deep Woods OFF) it is my favorite summer cologne

I never thought I would say this but.................
I'd prefer a Mosquito bite to this 5/8 of an inch puss filled disgusting mountain on my hand.

This bloke has one in exactly the same spot where I have my largest bite.
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It might not look much but when I place this hand next to my other the hand with 3 bites is swollen horribly. I now live in a swamp marshy area and of course I knew this would happen, just didn't think of Horse flies nor did I know they have larvae in the water too drat em!

Sometimes, just sometimes I miss the city.

We have horse flies too. I have been bitten many times by them I just don't have as bad an allergic reaction I guess We also have fire ants step on a mound of those things and you will wish you hadn't LOL. The only critters we don't have down here are scorpians you have to go about 100 miles north to get to them. Do you have them up there Sans?

Fire Ants! Keep em!
We have tree ants, lots of them too. The appear to live in the tree that sits right outside the house.

I did find a Garter Snake lurking under the porch two days ago. We only have two types of rattler here and I suspect its much to wet for them where I am?

I HATE SCORPIONS! Dang. Anything that bites or has the ability to cause pain, Why us and people like us then?

J-HALEY wrote:We have horse flies too. I have been bitten many times by them I just don't have as bad an allergic reaction I guess We also have fire ants step on a mound of those things and you will wish you hadn't LOL. The only critters we don't have down here are scorpians you have to go about 100 miles north to get to them. Do you have them up there Sans?

We can thank Adam and Eve for taking a bite out of that damn apple. thats funny Chippy yesterday I was mowing my lawn but before I can start I have to walk the lawn and make sure all the puppy toys are picked up and as I reached down to pick up the last one out of my peripheral vision saw something move. It was what I call a garter snake green and yellow kind of like a ribbon it was about 40 inches long and about 3 feet from me. It saw that I saw it and we both freaked. I jumped back and he took off so I gave chase. I wanted to get him out of the yard as I was getting ready to mow and did not want to run over him. He ran under the condensor unit and that was the last I saw of him. I live in a sudivision in a rural neighborhood all around me used to be cow pasture. Hell our neighborhood was once cow pasture. Thats what the builders around here are doing buying up land from the farmers and turning them into subdivisions. There is still alot of wildlife around here. Everytime the developer starts a new site it stirs up the wildlife and it gets kind of crazy. The Saturday before Memorial Day I got up early to start a brisket 4:am and was drinking coffee in my back yard and just as dawn was breaking the coyote's went crazy howling and yelping and of coarse that got all the dogs going. I had never heard that here before.
We don,t have rattlesnakes around here but we do have lots of cottonmouths, copperheads, and of coarse gators. Alot of people are finding the gator populations have increased further inland due to Ike's storm surge and because salt water was pushed further north and gators can't live in salt water. It causes them to not be able to digest food and they die. We lost a huge portion of the gator population as a result of Ike there were gator carcases all over Galveston, Brazoria, Liberty and Chambers Counties.

Yep, we got scorpins.
Dont see em as often as we used to. I think the fire ants have cut down the population quite a bit.
Damn ticks have been fearce this year too. I guess with the bloodsuckers running the congress and white house they think they all have diplomatic immunity.

Can we merge this thread with gothicrockers threads? Is there a horsefly meeting or practice anytime soon?

He he he...just kidding you.

I guess with the bloodsuckers running the congress and white house

I think I'll start a band called "The Ticks" We'll all dress up as politicians ( suits and ties and every hair sprayed in place) and the song lyrics will resemble political speeches.
ps- yeh I'm a biting/stinging insect magnet too.. argh.. <:B--
Last year I got stung by a wasp on my arm and the wife concockted a remedy that works great for stings. You take a tea-bag (lousinne etc) rip it open, tear a cigarette open, mix the tea with tobacco while wetting them into a mush with warm tap water, put the mixture in a paper towel and press it on to the bite- it draws the venom out (I usually use masking tape to tape it on so I don't have to hold it in place) Works Great!
-oh and if you don't have tobacco, just the tea works good too.

OOOOOOH, Do you really think you could write a lyrics that say nothing for an hour and a half.

Yeah and call the song "Seinfeld". It's a song about absolutely nothing.

Oh, and to keep the thread alive, here in Arkansas, we have buffalo gnats, and they bite the hell out of you.

My grandma used to tell me that back in the old days, after the crops were in, they'd burn off the fields. That got rid of most of the ticks and fleas. But nowadays, the law won't let you do that and so the insects are more prevalent than they used to be. One more case of bloodsuckers protecting their own.