not used to all these bugs!
Jun 18th 2010, 7:06 am
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Re: not used to all these bugs!
Yer a bad bad man Ray. I read the wiki on the Brown Recluse, seems that those type of injuries/infections can and do happen but are relatively rare. Mind you Leslie, he could have posted much much worse lol., some of the pics that come up on google are gag producing!! 
Jun 18th 2010, 5:24 pm
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Re: not used to all these bugs!
Hey MandyNi - not long until you join us Stateside - what part of Va are you going to? I am in Vienna,Va. Let me know if I can help you with any info on the area
Jun 19th 2010, 6:57 am
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Jun 19th 2010, 7:02 am
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I react quite badly to skeeter bites, when I am biten I get lumps that swell 1-2 inches across... I got biten by something (still not sure what) on the inside of my leg, just above my knee, it is swollen about 8 inches across, is red, itching and hot to the touch... might be a trip to the doc on monday if it doesn't settle down.
Jun 19th 2010, 9:49 am
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Re: not used to all these bugs!
I react quite badly to skeeter bites, when I am biten I get lumps that swell 1-2 inches across... I got biten by something (still not sure what) on the inside of my leg, just above my knee, it is swollen about 8 inches across, is red, itching and hot to the touch... might be a trip to the doc on monday if it doesn't settle down.
Jun 19th 2010, 1:18 pm
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... might be a trip to the doc on monday if it doesn't settle down.
Ian
Jun 28th 2010, 10:49 pm
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Re: not used to all these bugs!
I react quite badly to skeeter bites, when I am biten I get lumps that swell 1-2 inches across... I got biten by something (still not sure what) on the inside of my leg, just above my knee, it is swollen about 8 inches across, is red, itching and hot to the touch... might be a trip to the doc on monday if it doesn't settle down.
I've been wanting to see what others think about my theory, but I haven't had time to look up the proper names etc.
I think there are two classes of mosquito breeds. While I'm really allergic to all the bites, I'm acclimatised/inoculated to the ones on this side of the pond (incl Central America/Mexico etc).
BUT, the mosquitoes in Greece.. omg, the bites I'd get would react just like you say.. the ones my dad got got *huge* and so painful looking.. really dramatic reaction.
So I guess I want to know.. do any of you find that you react really differently to mosquito bites in the US vs UK/Europe? Are the mosquitoes in the UK another breed again from the A. Egypti? Oh good lord.. there are 50 mosquito species found in Massachusetts?! Maybe I don't want to know...
Jun 28th 2010, 10:55 pm
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Re: not used to all these bugs!
So what happened?!
I've been wanting to see what others think about my theory, but I haven't had time to look up the proper names etc.
I think there are two classes of mosquito breeds. While I'm really allergic to all the bites, I'm acclimatised/inoculated to the ones on this side of the pond (incl Central America/Mexico etc).
BUT, the mosquitoes in Greece.. omg, the bites I'd get would react just like you say.. the ones my dad got got *huge* and so painful looking.. really dramatic reaction.
So I guess I want to know.. do any of you find that you react really differently to mosquito bites in the US vs UK/Europe? Are the mosquitoes in the UK another breed again from the A. Egypti? Oh good lord.. there are 50 mosquito species found in Massachusetts?! Maybe I don't want to know...
I've been wanting to see what others think about my theory, but I haven't had time to look up the proper names etc.
I think there are two classes of mosquito breeds. While I'm really allergic to all the bites, I'm acclimatised/inoculated to the ones on this side of the pond (incl Central America/Mexico etc).
BUT, the mosquitoes in Greece.. omg, the bites I'd get would react just like you say.. the ones my dad got got *huge* and so painful looking.. really dramatic reaction.
So I guess I want to know.. do any of you find that you react really differently to mosquito bites in the US vs UK/Europe? Are the mosquitoes in the UK another breed again from the A. Egypti? Oh good lord.. there are 50 mosquito species found in Massachusetts?! Maybe I don't want to know...
I react about the same to both US and UK mozzies....huge red lumps that take weeks and weeks to disappear. My lifeline is Lentek's Bite Shield.
The worst bug bite IMO is the deer/horse fly...OMG you feel it bite you and it takes forever for the itching and swelling to go. I've never had a problem with them before...maybe it's because we have so many deer around here.
Jun 28th 2010, 11:01 pm
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Re: not used to all these bugs!
I react quite badly to skeeter bites, when I am biten I get lumps that swell 1-2 inches across... I got biten by something (still not sure what) on the inside of my leg, just above my knee, it is swollen about 8 inches across, is red, itching and hot to the touch... might be a trip to the doc on monday if it doesn't settle down.
Jun 28th 2010, 11:10 pm
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I react to wasp stings like that. I once had one get up my trouser leg and sting me on my shin...I put Waspeze on it which helped a lot. Problem was it had stung me on my upper thigh and I hadn't felt it. A few hours later it looked like I had a blood orange strapped to my thigh.
Freakin' things are the size of pterodactyls...
Jun 28th 2010, 11:26 pm
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I hate bugs. I'm always the one they land on. Last week a large dragonfly landed on my leg when I was sunbathing...we were on a cruise ship on the Atlantic Ocean. There were about 3,000 passengers + crew and it had to pick me!
I know it's harmless but I hate anything like that.
Jun 28th 2010, 11:32 pm
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The largest wasp I've seen was a cicada killer wasp that flew into our kitchen...it was about 2" long.
I hate bugs. I'm always the one they land on. Last week a large dragonfly landed on my leg when I was sunbathing...we were on a cruise ship on the Atlantic Ocean. There were about 3,000 passengers + crew and it had to pick me! I know it's harmless but I hate anything like that.
I hate bugs. I'm always the one they land on. Last week a large dragonfly landed on my leg when I was sunbathing...we were on a cruise ship on the Atlantic Ocean. There were about 3,000 passengers + crew and it had to pick me!
I know it's harmless but I hate anything like that.
Jun 29th 2010, 3:12 am
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Joce just got bitten in bed by a scorpion ..she is really pissed
only got her hand
only got her hand
Jun 29th 2010, 4:39 am
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It was red, swollen, hot and itchy for 4 or 5 days then is started to subside. Saturday night I was in the shower shaving my legs and could still see a very slight discolouration in the area. It was really weird. Hubby thought it was maybe a spider, a girl at work said it looked exactly like the reaction she got to wasp stings, but I would have thought I would have felt that or at least had the stinger thing left in my leg. I still don't know for sure I just hope I never get biten/stung by the same thing again.