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Outdoorsmen should be wary of poisonous insects, such as the ones listed here.
 Fire ants are tiny, but they pack a powerful venomous wallop, like that from a wasp. In the U.S., bees, spiders, caterpillars and ants take a frightening and painful toll on humans. Just recently in Louisiana, for example, 13-year old Patrick Dodson was attacked by hundreds of fire ants while working in his yard with his mother Donna. In ten minutes he was in severe pain. In 30 minutes he was swollen and numb, and his mother rushed him to an emergency clinic where he passed out. He was transported to a hospital where an ER team quickly went to work stabilizing him. His heart stopped twice, and he nearly died from massive doses of poison the small fire ants injected. A nurse lost count of the sting marks on Patrick when she reached 210. Nearly 10 million people each year are stung by ants, according to experts. Most are not nearly as life threatening as Patrick Dodson experienced. AdvertisementRelated PhotosSUBMIT YOUR PHOTOSADVERTISEMENT |
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Yikes!! That Brown Recluse is one nasty spider.
Great educational series. Some personal points I have been treated twice this year for deer tick bites that became infected and persisted for almost two weeks. I am presently being treated again. If you are in an area where ticks are prevalent (I live in Va.)use plenty of deet on your clothes especially the shoe and cuff area of the pants leg being sure to spray the inside of the pants leg where it meets your shoes or boots. Also I recommend spraying around your belt line. For for neck and hands etc. use one of the natural biological sprays or lotions that contain lemon oil and eucalypetus extract (hope I spelled that right).
As a retired ER nurse, my perspective on this report, very good. But on Plate # 4, the word is purulent, meaning to contain pus. Pussy is not a medical word and indicative of other things not meant for a family oriented magazine.
Brown recluse are also called fiddlebacks and can cause people loss of a limb, other permanent disability or even death. Many people do not know they have them in their house. If you find one, you will have others. You need a professional exterminator to be sure they are gone. Children and the aged are more severely affected.
I have seen lots of scorpion stings, which are not usually as bad as bee or wasp stings, they hurt, bad.
All of the bee, wasp family are called hymenoptra. People with allergies to hymenoptra envenomation (I am one) can die before your eyes from acute anaphyllactic shock. If they know they are allergic to bees, etc they need to carry a device called an "epi-pen." It can save their life, no epi-pen left at home ever saved anybody.
I used to keep tarantulas, (hey, it kept my apartment safe when I was living in an area with a very high break in rate. Left a tarantula shell in the window, I was left alone when people all around lost almost everything.) Never seen a tarantula bite, You almost have to go out of your way to get them to respond aggressively. I played with them a bunch(when I was single.) Many people have near heart failure when they see them. No one has ever died from an American tarantula bite.
Ticks, Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever are the two big things to worry about, they're both bad.
Black widow bites are again usually only real bad in the very young and the very old. Those in between may have some problems but not usually as bad. I have seen old people die from black widow bites.
It just makes a guy want to go out in the wild, doesn't it. I told my wife the other day, "It's okay, I live with danger every day."
She responded "and occasionally she let's you go hunting." What can I say?
Lyme disease keeps getting further and further north every year. I never used to have to worry about it till about 4-5 years ago.
I have brown recluses in my house
Lyme disease is epedimic across the US. There is a new movie coming out that has been shown to congressmen and medical and other research specialist. The movie titled "Under our skin" from Open Eye Pictures is a very descriptive documentary exposing the damage that chronic Lyme disease can do to its victims when misdiagnosed, untreated and under-treated. OSHA's fact sheet describes Lyme disease "if untreated, can become chronic and disabling." If you have every had a tick bite, you should see this film. An exerpt is available at www.underourskin.com.
Babesiosis, Bartonella, Erlichia are tick transmitted infections that can further complicate treatment of Lyme disease. Cases of Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases are being misdiagnosed daily in every state. Research, Education, Prevention, and proper Treatments are desperately needed. I pray everyday for a cure for these dreadful bacterial diseases.
Help! Please contact your U.S. Representatives in support of H.R. 1179...
Twenty three more of those pictures and I would be permanently hold up in my house with cans of Raid stashed strategically around the place, a pocket full of antihistamines, a bottle of calamine lotion and many cases of red wine. Those bugs could give me a whole new appreciation of cold winters. I'm going to plan the rest of my insect defense arsenal over a glass of that red wine and try not to worry!!
I was shed hunting last year within the first mile I pulled off 25 ticks after that I quit counting becuase I would have turned back if I really thought on how bad it was getting. It seem like on they keep getting on my left shoulder almost evrey time my shoulder brushed a branch you guessed it there was at least 1 or 2 of them on my left shoulder again. All I got to say is good times good times.
No Africanized bees? Centipedes? Figure there is just too many critters to cover here.
A friend was bit by a brown recluse in Michigan - it hitched a ride in some packaging from northern Mexico. His arm swelled as big as his leg and he lost some flesh. He was lucky he didn't lose it.
The deer tick concerns me the most. Most people don't realize how tiny they are. Get in your hair and you might never know. A girl that cut my hair came down with Lyme disease - was improperly diagnosed for years. She quit her career because of the complications. She wasn't even an outdoors person - might have just picked up a tick from a client.
Lyme disease and numerous other dibilitating diseases are transmitted by ticks. Protect yourself. This is an epidemic sweeping across the entire US, not just the Northeast and Midwest. Treat every tick bite as if you are infected with the bacteria. Better to be safe than be disabled for life. Antibiotics immediately!!!!!!!
Lyme disease. Until you get it, you just don't understand. It's like a Chronic Wasting disease. Unbelievers, beware!
I'm surprised Bo, the retired ER Nurse, didn't point out the glaring error in an otherwise good article. Poisonous and venomous are different. Generally, a plant or animal is considered poisonous if your are harmed by touching or consuming it. Venomous refers to bugs and insects that deliver their venom, usually with a sting or bite. There are NO poisonous snakes, but there are venomous snakes, for example.
MIDDLE GEORGIA has ticks that transmit Lyme disease, Babesiosis, Bartonella and/or Erlichia. After almost 30 years of being misdiagnosed and seeing many GEORGIA doctors , specialist and $$$$$$, finally, my pain doctor ordered a CD-57 and then the westernblot blood test. I have always lived and mostly vacationed in GEORGIA and I have all these bacterial diseases. I am now disabled. I have a poor quality of life and I can NOT enjoy the outdoors any longer.
See: www.lymedisease.org for symptoms. Don't hesitate to ask to be tested. A quick checklist is available at: http://cassia.org/checklist.htm.
thanks for showing that video dickieadams
jmquinn72, there was no need to. The definition of poisonous is "having the properties or qualities of a poison, venomous." The definition of venom is "a poison excreted by some animals, such as insect or snakes, and transmitted by bites or stings." these definitions were from my old beat up copy of "Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary." To try to make that a big issue would have been quibbling on a small point that was not that glaring, as venom is by definition a poison. Under accepted definition venomous snakes may be called poisonous, and vice versa particularly by those that are not versed in medical parlance.
I also referred to bee stings as hymenoptra envenomation, which is a true medical diagnosis.
Also do a search on poisonous snakes and you will see many people use the terms interchangeably. I have heard physicians refer to snakes as poisonous or non-poisonous when talking to non-medical people. I try not to be elitist.
I have better things to do than try to pick articles apart, when the info is good and not technically incorrect. If the information had been wrong to the point of potentially causing harm if one were to follow the advice given, I would have said so, and I have, in other posts.
1) Been "attacked" by fire ants NOT FUN !
2) Had a buddy that was bitten by recluse, developed the "ulcer" Yes it looked like that.
3) Smaller the Scorpion the worse it is for you.
4) HATE tick's & chiggers.
5) Don't mess with catipilar's either.
It's good to see people talking about the Lyme issue here. It is so destructive to the person or animal it invades and nothing seems to being done to help those suffering from it. There needs to be more awareness of Lyme and it's co-infections. There is so much needless suffering going on. I am reminded every day that I have to keep searching for a cure, or even a remedy for my 6 year old daughter who is in constant agony. Why can't anyone help her?!?! It is so inhumane!
Ticks have to be the worst. They carry more diseases than any other insect including the mosquito. Ticks seem to be everywhere and are very tough to kill or repel. Defeating Lyme should be a national health priority. This one disease causes untold misery and lost productivity in our country.
I believe that ticks are "drop predators", and that they can sense CO2 rising to them, then they drop on the "prey" below them. An exterminator explained that if you want to rid your property of ticks (within practical limits) you need to spray the underside of bushes, tree limbs/leaves, fences, boat trailers - doorways! I am not sure if it varies by the species of tick, though. MAkes perfect sense that every limb brushing on a shoulder deposited the little beasts! Never had them in my yards on on my dogs until a year ago, but the neighbors started fighting them a couple years before that...
Adult deer ticks or (on the west coast) western black-legged ticks, climb to the tips of vegetation along the edges of trails and "quest." When they sense the CO2 of a mammal approaching, they extend their hooked forelegs and snag a ride as the animal passes by.
Nymphal ticks, thought to be responsible for most human cases of Lyme disease, are found in leaf litter, especially in forests with oak trees (acorns attract tick hosts like mice and deer). Nymphs on the west coast have been found on the tops of downed logs, where they hitch onto lizards, a favored host. They can also climb up to 3 feet on tree trunks, where they sometimes find hunters leaning. Their bite is painless. Gathering firewood has also be linked to higher risk. In California, researchers looking for nymphs in a public picnic area finally found dozens on the underside of the benches and tables.
Only half the people who ultimately are diagnosed with Lyme disease develop any rash at all. Of these, only 9 percent are bull's-eye shape. Most are irregular red areas. Only 14 percent remember being bitten by a tick.
For more information about Lyme, visit www.lymedisease.org and join your local online state support group by going to http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/statenamelyme which will tell you how to find your own group.
I bet you didn't know that Lyme disease epidemics have been quickly and easily ended in towns in three New England states, did you? One town on Cape Cod ended its Lyme disease over twenty years ago. How? No more deer ticks, therefore no more Lyme disease. Simple enough. Why hasn't your health department informed you about this? Visit EradicateLymeDisease.org and learn more. Liberate your town, or your state from Lyme, the "Unnecesary Epidemic."
Did you know the reported Lyme disease cases in dogs are being reported and mapped on a testing equipment company’s website: www.idexx.com? Their reported cases and Lyme disease areas conflict with the CDC information. It will lead you to believe that Lyme disease and other tick-borne infectious diseases are in GEORGIA and other states for man/woman and his/her best friend. Also see: http://www.dogsandticks.com/US-map-lyme-disease-dogs/index.html PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR DOG.
Lyme Disease is very prevalent in CA despite the docotrs opinions or beliefs. Take it seriously - you do not want to mess around with this awful, life changing disease. If you are bit by a tick take it seriously and do not listen to docotrs, other than an LLMD.
Yellowjackets not only sting;they also bite.I'm not sure which one is worse. When I was a kid I walked ontop of a nest and got either stung or bit 18 times. About 25 years ago my girlfriend's mother mowed over a nest and got it 32 times before she could get away. She almost died. They're bad bees.
I was raised in the time before bug dope and on a farm with livestock,My grandfather an old man out of the Ozarks would roll up a cuff on our pants fill it with sulphur and dust our pants up about knee high it worked well.Don't have the ticks chiggers where i am now.We always called em redbugs.The swamps have a lot worse and most you can't even see with a naked eye.Nobody knows your body better than you do.If you don't feel right get it checked.I caught leptosporsis this spring and had never heard of it.
Out of all those deadly insects chiggers are the worse. I think those lil guys are sent from satan. One thing they failed to mention about chiggers is that unlike most of the other insects, they're attracted to your crotch like a heat seeking missile..... Hate em!
In regard to the brown recluse spider: People who use outhouses (as in the days of old) such as backpackers, hikers or others be careful when sitting on the 'toilet seat', that hole in the wood board. Under the planked seat it is dark, "the sun don't shine there" and that is what a recluse spider likes: the dark. You definitely do not want to get bite on your butt. From what I understand the spider can also be found under beds in your home; another dark location.
after a couple hunderd fire ant bites you get emune to em
Great article on naasty critters. I was recently stung by a red wasp and while doin gthe pain dance a friend wet some cigarette tobacco and placed it on the sting site. In just a short time I could feel the pain lessening and next day had no pain at all.
Apparently the tobaco poltis draws out the poison and mitigates the severity.
I wonder if this would work as well on other insect bites? Anybody out there have an opinion?
I hate spiders. Brown Recluse is the worst species that make their way up to South Dakota from time to time. Hell, might even be the worst type of spider period. Hope I never run into one. Had my share of run ins with some of the others though. Great Gallery!!!
Living in the south we have our share of all of the bugs shown in this article. Whenever I go afield I always spray my clothing with Repel's Permanone, which is a permerithin (sp) based product. You can't put it on your skin but it is highly effective on your clothing. I used to get chiggers and ticks but now if they get on my clothing, they die. I use it on my boots, socks, pants and shirt. All of the deet products really don't help with the crawly type bugs. I keep two or three cans at all times, in my truck and 4 wheeler. Believe me it works.
glad i live in the frozen north...just mosquitos to bug us here.
Lyme is beyond an epidemic, and the testing is one of the major problems. They are old, outdated and completely unreliable. The testing used was not even intended for diagnositc use, but for surveillance purposes many years ago. We need a test NOW that actually determines the presence of the lyme bacteria in our bodies 100% of the time. Until we have that, relying on a stand elisa or western blot is as helpfull as tossing a coin.
No bug will keep me out of the woods.
Nasty recluse spiders. I think If that happened I'd tell the doc to take of Appendage. More reasons to hate bugs.
Had a coworker get a recluse bite.Very nasty . No
he didnt develop a "spidey sense ". He caught hell for weeks over it . No one mentioned wasps and bees. They are really agressive this fall. Oven cleaner burns them right up. And chlorinated brake clean. Though its best not to bother them sometimes you have no choice when in auto salvage yards. Its best to be safe than stung.
this was instructional and educational and with this we can watch out for these predators when were out in the outdoors
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As a retired ER nurse, my perspective on this report, very good. But on Plate # 4, the word is purulent, meaning to contain pus. Pussy is not a medical word and indicative of other things not meant for a family oriented magazine.
Brown recluse are also called fiddlebacks and can cause people loss of a limb, other permanent disability or even death. Many people do not know they have them in their house. If you find one, you will have others. You need a professional exterminator to be sure they are gone. Children and the aged are more severely affected.
I have seen lots of scorpion stings, which are not usually as bad as bee or wasp stings, they hurt, bad.
All of the bee, wasp family are called hymenoptra. People with allergies to hymenoptra envenomation (I am one) can die before your eyes from acute anaphyllactic shock. If they know they are allergic to bees, etc they need to carry a device called an "epi-pen." It can save their life, no epi-pen left at home ever saved anybody.
I used to keep tarantulas, (hey, it kept my apartment safe when I was living in an area with a very high break in rate. Left a tarantula shell in the window, I was left alone when people all around lost almost everything.) Never seen a tarantula bite, You almost have to go out of your way to get them to respond aggressively. I played with them a bunch(when I was single.) Many people have near heart failure when they see them. No one has ever died from an American tarantula bite.
Ticks, Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever are the two big things to worry about, they're both bad.
Black widow bites are again usually only real bad in the very young and the very old. Those in between may have some problems but not usually as bad. I have seen old people die from black widow bites.
It just makes a guy want to go out in the wild, doesn't it. I told my wife the other day, "It's okay, I live with danger every day."
She responded "and occasionally she let's you go hunting." What can I say?
jmquinn72, there was no need to. The definition of poisonous is "having the properties or qualities of a poison, venomous." The definition of venom is "a poison excreted by some animals, such as insect or snakes, and transmitted by bites or stings." these definitions were from my old beat up copy of "Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary." To try to make that a big issue would have been quibbling on a small point that was not that glaring, as venom is by definition a poison. Under accepted definition venomous snakes may be called poisonous, and vice versa particularly by those that are not versed in medical parlance.
I also referred to bee stings as hymenoptra envenomation, which is a true medical diagnosis.
Also do a search on poisonous snakes and you will see many people use the terms interchangeably. I have heard physicians refer to snakes as poisonous or non-poisonous when talking to non-medical people. I try not to be elitist.
I have better things to do than try to pick articles apart, when the info is good and not technically incorrect. If the information had been wrong to the point of potentially causing harm if one were to follow the advice given, I would have said so, and I have, in other posts.
Lyme disease. Until you get it, you just don't understand. It's like a Chronic Wasting disease. Unbelievers, beware!
Babesiosis, Bartonella, Erlichia are tick transmitted infections that can further complicate treatment of Lyme disease. Cases of Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases are being misdiagnosed daily in every state. Research, Education, Prevention, and proper Treatments are desperately needed. I pray everyday for a cure for these dreadful bacterial diseases.
Help! Please contact your U.S. Representatives in support of H.R. 1179...
Twenty three more of those pictures and I would be permanently hold up in my house with cans of Raid stashed strategically around the place, a pocket full of antihistamines, a bottle of calamine lotion and many cases of red wine. Those bugs could give me a whole new appreciation of cold winters. I'm going to plan the rest of my insect defense arsenal over a glass of that red wine and try not to worry!!
Yikes!! That Brown Recluse is one nasty spider.
Lyme disease keeps getting further and further north every year. I never used to have to worry about it till about 4-5 years ago.
No Africanized bees? Centipedes? Figure there is just too many critters to cover here.
A friend was bit by a brown recluse in Michigan - it hitched a ride in some packaging from northern Mexico. His arm swelled as big as his leg and he lost some flesh. He was lucky he didn't lose it.
The deer tick concerns me the most. Most people don't realize how tiny they are. Get in your hair and you might never know. A girl that cut my hair came down with Lyme disease - was improperly diagnosed for years. She quit her career because of the complications. She wasn't even an outdoors person - might have just picked up a tick from a client.
Lyme disease and numerous other dibilitating diseases are transmitted by ticks. Protect yourself. This is an epidemic sweeping across the entire US, not just the Northeast and Midwest. Treat every tick bite as if you are infected with the bacteria. Better to be safe than be disabled for life. Antibiotics immediately!!!!!!!
It's good to see people talking about the Lyme issue here. It is so destructive to the person or animal it invades and nothing seems to being done to help those suffering from it. There needs to be more awareness of Lyme and it's co-infections. There is so much needless suffering going on. I am reminded every day that I have to keep searching for a cure, or even a remedy for my 6 year old daughter who is in constant agony. Why can't anyone help her?!?! It is so inhumane!
Great educational series. Some personal points I have been treated twice this year for deer tick bites that became infected and persisted for almost two weeks. I am presently being treated again. If you are in an area where ticks are prevalent (I live in Va.)use plenty of deet on your clothes especially the shoe and cuff area of the pants leg being sure to spray the inside of the pants leg where it meets your shoes or boots. Also I recommend spraying around your belt line. For for neck and hands etc. use one of the natural biological sprays or lotions that contain lemon oil and eucalypetus extract (hope I spelled that right).
Lyme disease is epedimic across the US. There is a new movie coming out that has been shown to congressmen and medical and other research specialist. The movie titled "Under our skin" from Open Eye Pictures is a very descriptive documentary exposing the damage that chronic Lyme disease can do to its victims when misdiagnosed, untreated and under-treated. OSHA's fact sheet describes Lyme disease "if untreated, can become chronic and disabling." If you have every had a tick bite, you should see this film. An exerpt is available at www.underourskin.com.
I was shed hunting last year within the first mile I pulled off 25 ticks after that I quit counting becuase I would have turned back if I really thought on how bad it was getting. It seem like on they keep getting on my left shoulder almost evrey time my shoulder brushed a branch you guessed it there was at least 1 or 2 of them on my left shoulder again. All I got to say is good times good times.
MIDDLE GEORGIA has ticks that transmit Lyme disease, Babesiosis, Bartonella and/or Erlichia. After almost 30 years of being misdiagnosed and seeing many GEORGIA doctors , specialist and $$$$$$, finally, my pain doctor ordered a CD-57 and then the westernblot blood test. I have always lived and mostly vacationed in GEORGIA and I have all these bacterial diseases. I am now disabled. I have a poor quality of life and I can NOT enjoy the outdoors any longer.
See: www.lymedisease.org for symptoms. Don't hesitate to ask to be tested. A quick checklist is available at: http://cassia.org/checklist.htm.
Ticks have to be the worst. They carry more diseases than any other insect including the mosquito. Ticks seem to be everywhere and are very tough to kill or repel. Defeating Lyme should be a national health priority. This one disease causes untold misery and lost productivity in our country.
I have brown recluses in my house
I'm surprised Bo, the retired ER Nurse, didn't point out the glaring error in an otherwise good article. Poisonous and venomous are different. Generally, a plant or animal is considered poisonous if your are harmed by touching or consuming it. Venomous refers to bugs and insects that deliver their venom, usually with a sting or bite. There are NO poisonous snakes, but there are venomous snakes, for example.
thanks for showing that video dickieadams
1) Been "attacked" by fire ants NOT FUN !
2) Had a buddy that was bitten by recluse, developed the "ulcer" Yes it looked like that.
3) Smaller the Scorpion the worse it is for you.
4) HATE tick's & chiggers.
5) Don't mess with catipilar's either.
I believe that ticks are "drop predators", and that they can sense CO2 rising to them, then they drop on the "prey" below them. An exterminator explained that if you want to rid your property of ticks (within practical limits) you need to spray the underside of bushes, tree limbs/leaves, fences, boat trailers - doorways! I am not sure if it varies by the species of tick, though. MAkes perfect sense that every limb brushing on a shoulder deposited the little beasts! Never had them in my yards on on my dogs until a year ago, but the neighbors started fighting them a couple years before that...
Adult deer ticks or (on the west coast) western black-legged ticks, climb to the tips of vegetation along the edges of trails and "quest." When they sense the CO2 of a mammal approaching, they extend their hooked forelegs and snag a ride as the animal passes by.
Nymphal ticks, thought to be responsible for most human cases of Lyme disease, are found in leaf litter, especially in forests with oak trees (acorns attract tick hosts like mice and deer). Nymphs on the west coast have been found on the tops of downed logs, where they hitch onto lizards, a favored host. They can also climb up to 3 feet on tree trunks, where they sometimes find hunters leaning. Their bite is painless. Gathering firewood has also be linked to higher risk. In California, researchers looking for nymphs in a public picnic area finally found dozens on the underside of the benches and tables.
Only half the people who ultimately are diagnosed with Lyme disease develop any rash at all. Of these, only 9 percent are bull's-eye shape. Most are irregular red areas. Only 14 percent remember being bitten by a tick.
For more information about Lyme, visit www.lymedisease.org and join your local online state support group by going to http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/statenamelyme which will tell you how to find your own group.
I bet you didn't know that Lyme disease epidemics have been quickly and easily ended in towns in three New England states, did you? One town on Cape Cod ended its Lyme disease over twenty years ago. How? No more deer ticks, therefore no more Lyme disease. Simple enough. Why hasn't your health department informed you about this? Visit EradicateLymeDisease.org and learn more. Liberate your town, or your state from Lyme, the "Unnecesary Epidemic."
Lyme Disease is very prevalent in CA despite the docotrs opinions or beliefs. Take it seriously - you do not want to mess around with this awful, life changing disease. If you are bit by a tick take it seriously and do not listen to docotrs, other than an LLMD.
In regard to the brown recluse spider: People who use outhouses (as in the days of old) such as backpackers, hikers or others be careful when sitting on the 'toilet seat', that hole in the wood board. Under the planked seat it is dark, "the sun don't shine there" and that is what a recluse spider likes: the dark. You definitely do not want to get bite on your butt. From what I understand the spider can also be found under beds in your home; another dark location.
Great article on naasty critters. I was recently stung by a red wasp and while doin gthe pain dance a friend wet some cigarette tobacco and placed it on the sting site. In just a short time I could feel the pain lessening and next day had no pain at all.
Apparently the tobaco poltis draws out the poison and mitigates the severity.
I wonder if this would work as well on other insect bites? Anybody out there have an opinion?
Living in the south we have our share of all of the bugs shown in this article. Whenever I go afield I always spray my clothing with Repel's Permanone, which is a permerithin (sp) based product. You can't put it on your skin but it is highly effective on your clothing. I used to get chiggers and ticks but now if they get on my clothing, they die. I use it on my boots, socks, pants and shirt. All of the deet products really don't help with the crawly type bugs. I keep two or three cans at all times, in my truck and 4 wheeler. Believe me it works.
glad i live in the frozen north...just mosquitos to bug us here.
Lyme is beyond an epidemic, and the testing is one of the major problems. They are old, outdated and completely unreliable. The testing used was not even intended for diagnositc use, but for surveillance purposes many years ago. We need a test NOW that actually determines the presence of the lyme bacteria in our bodies 100% of the time. Until we have that, relying on a stand elisa or western blot is as helpfull as tossing a coin.
Nasty recluse spiders. I think If that happened I'd tell the doc to take of Appendage. More reasons to hate bugs.
Had a coworker get a recluse bite.Very nasty . No
he didnt develop a "spidey sense ". He caught hell for weeks over it . No one mentioned wasps and bees. They are really agressive this fall. Oven cleaner burns them right up. And chlorinated brake clean. Though its best not to bother them sometimes you have no choice when in auto salvage yards. Its best to be safe than stung.
Did you know the reported Lyme disease cases in dogs are being reported and mapped on a testing equipment company’s website: www.idexx.com? Their reported cases and Lyme disease areas conflict with the CDC information. It will lead you to believe that Lyme disease and other tick-borne infectious diseases are in GEORGIA and other states for man/woman and his/her best friend. Also see: http://www.dogsandticks.com/US-map-lyme-disease-dogs/index.html PROTECT YOURSELF AND YOUR DOG.
Yellowjackets not only sting;they also bite.I'm not sure which one is worse. When I was a kid I walked ontop of a nest and got either stung or bit 18 times. About 25 years ago my girlfriend's mother mowed over a nest and got it 32 times before she could get away. She almost died. They're bad bees.
I was raised in the time before bug dope and on a farm with livestock,My grandfather an old man out of the Ozarks would roll up a cuff on our pants fill it with sulphur and dust our pants up about knee high it worked well.Don't have the ticks chiggers where i am now.We always called em redbugs.The swamps have a lot worse and most you can't even see with a naked eye.Nobody knows your body better than you do.If you don't feel right get it checked.I caught leptosporsis this spring and had never heard of it.
after a couple hunderd fire ant bites you get emune to em
I hate spiders. Brown Recluse is the worst species that make their way up to South Dakota from time to time. Hell, might even be the worst type of spider period. Hope I never run into one. Had my share of run ins with some of the others though. Great Gallery!!!
No bug will keep me out of the woods.
this was instructional and educational and with this we can watch out for these predators when were out in the outdoors
Out of all those deadly insects chiggers are the worse. I think those lil guys are sent from satan. One thing they failed to mention about chiggers is that unlike most of the other insects, they're attracted to your crotch like a heat seeking missile..... Hate em!
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