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Those are the bane of my existence. There are several months out of the year I won't go to our camp because they're so thick. No amount of spray will get you by without at least 3-4 bites.
They are evil. I take full precautions. Long pants tucked into my boots, still I find a few that migrated their way to my groin.
Ahh, the forbidden groin pepper.
Permethrin is amazing, massively recommend. You treat your clothes with it and it'll kill most bugs (including all ticks) on contact and it lasts for weeks
I believe permethrin and DEET are the leading chemicals gor tick managment
Pest control guy here.
Yes. Permethrin is very effective and generally safe for humans and animals.
Vitamin B-12 will work. My parents used to shove B-12 tablets down our throats every spring/summer. We lived in the Midwest and were the only kids that never got bitten by ticks, chiggers, fleas, or mosquitos. Once you have built up enough in your system, you sweat it out and that masks the smell of your blood.
Got curious and tried to find any papers on it. The ones I could scrounge up seem to be very (SHRUG) about it so hey, it can't hurt probably!
Oh no, can you show me where thos thicc bugs are? So I can avoid them of course!
Ticks will dry out in cut grass but not in long grass.
Literally the only convincing reason I've ever heard for why to mow the lawn.
My brother told me they are physically impossible to get off without cutting that part of your skin as a child lmao
Anytime I see a video of a person or dog jumping into a big pile of leaves, all I can think of is "Ticks..."
Didn’t use to be that way….
#GlobalWarming
I'm allergic to the most common strains of grass. The idea of relaxing in grass is horrid.
Your rash is grass
The grass itself, not pollen? Do you know what in the grass causes it?
I had allergy testing done and where they do the little scrapes on your back of all the various allergens, they also do one that's pure histamine as a control. You can kinda feel each area based on the reaction, some are a little itchy, but the grass area felt like a heat gun on my skin. It was insanely itchy and painful and explained why my face almost swelled shut when I rolled down a hill as a kid. It's very not fun, especially if you have to be out and about during the summer months with people mowing. Fortunately, I got a treatment of allergy shots and it helped immensely.
Maybe it's the pollen in the grass
A friend of mine has that as well, and I didn't even know it was possible. I also wasn't aware that some people are extremely allergic to mosquito bites, so while I get like a little itchy pinhead welt, I've seen people who get ones the size of a quarter. The grass allergy friend has it so bad that if the bite is on a wrist it's becomes hard to bend it from the swelling.
My wife and son get extreme reactions to mosquito bites sometimes, perhaps it depends on the mosquito type or something like that because it's.not every bite. It swells up, goes red and hard. A few days later turns into a blister (biggest ones I've ever seen) full of clear fluid. Only does that on arms, legs and feet. On the face it does the same but without the blistering.
A blanket will do. They where trendy back then.
You walked out and laid down in their home. What else do you expect?
Yeah the expectation is the same as the second pic
In my youth I went to a bbq camping event and rather than deal with a tent I chucked a futon and blanket on some grass and just went to sleep. I woke up with most of my blood still so turns out the mosquitoes didn't get me much.