This is one thing that has gotten better with age. The skeeter bites dont bother me near as bad as they did when i was a kid. What i remember canadian bugs wasnt the mosquitoes, it was those vicious black flies. Them things were brutal.
This is one thing that has gotten better with age. The skeeter bites dont bother me near as bad as they did when i was a kid. What i remember canadian bugs wasnt the mosquitoes, it was those vicious black flies. Them things were brutal.
My wife and kids get real big bumps from bug bites. They started putting lavender oil on them and the bumps and itch go away almost instantly. Bug bites and stings don't seem to bother me so much, except for spider bites. Those suck. I'm a plumber and crawl around in some nasty places. Good for at least one spider bite a year.
I got a brown recluse bite on my shoulder a couple months ago. That sucked.
not so much a bite story.. but a trying not to get bit story.
This summer I was out riding my Mountain bike in one of the local state forests. Staying on the smooth fireroads as I ride through what used to be a munitions factory for WW1.
I feel hard bite on my arm and swat a deer fly... then I made the mistake of looking behind me.. I had a swarm of the buggers following me.. I quickly hightailed it out of the forest
Grow some more hair ya pansy. The only place they bite me is on my ankles and feet where the hair has been worn off by my socks.
Dr. Hess wrote: Sickle Cell Trait (one defective (kinda) gene, one normal gene) somewhere around 1 in 10 black people, 1 in 100 Hispanic and 1 in 10,000 white, probably more in southern Europeans. Also present in Arabs. Provides pretty good resistance to malaria. Basically the red blood cells (RBC's) are fully functional, but somewhat unstable, and when the "bug" invades the RBC, the RBC disintegrates, ending that bug's ability to hide out and multiply. Two sickle genes and the RBC is unstable to the point that when stressed (low oxygen), it will mis-shape into a sickle, which won't go through the little vessels and thus cause "bad things to happen." One sickle gene and it will still work OK. An interesting genetics phenomenon and perhaps one of the very few examples of evolution as it is taught. Thalasemias likewise will provide a resistance to malaria and a carrier could not have any symptoms. Besides not getting malaria. Maybe. The thalasemias are more common in Europeans, certain Jews and Asians. You know that the southern US used to be just loaded with malaria? Then it all went away. Before pesticides. Why? No one knows. It just did.
The E36 M3 I learn on this forum. And to think my wife thinks I come here for the car stuff!
So now I have med school syndrome and feel that I should get checked out for these two.
Kenny_McCormic wrote: Spray every plant (grass included) in the yard with permethrin until it's not longer an issue.
That's funny - in Canada??? I think we would run you out of the chemical to do that!!
Besides use of pesticides is illegal by non-professionals (as in the 16 year old that got a 2 minute training session from his boss!) in illegal in Ontario.
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