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Skriven 2009-03-21 16:38:57 av Roy Witt (1:397/22)
  Kommentar till text 29872 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
Ärende: Chgiggers (was: Stealing land)
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19 Mar 09 16:17, Robert Bashe wrote to Roy Witt:

 RW>> anywhere else. California ticks (chiggers) can be seen head first in
 RW>> your skin, ass end sticking out. All you do is light a cigarette and
 RW>> touch his ass with it, he then backs out of his hole.

 RB> Big difference between chiggers and ticks, Roy.

I recall what they are now. The name slips my mind but it implies that
they're invisible. They're like small 'skeeters' but you can't see them.

 RB> A tick you can see and pull out if necessary. Chiggers you generally
 RB> only detect when you get bit and the welt starts itching. A tick
 RB> sucks blood, a chigger uses it's saliva to actually _dissolve_ the
 RB> skin and then sucks the mess until satiated. That's why it takes so
 RB> long to recover from the bite. A mosquito bite is gone in a couple of
 RB> days, a chigger bite takes a couple of weeks before it stops itching.

I've got mosquito bite lumps on my calves that have been there since 2005.
Some days they itch, others they don't. Those were the bites in got before
I found a remedy to stop the swelling and curb the itching.

 RB> Chiggers can be repelled with flowers of sulfur (which unfortunately
 RB> was unknown when I was a boy). I don't know about ticks.

I told you how we treated ticks in another message. I think that's the
best way, which is prevention rather than an after bite cure.

 RB> Cheers, Bob

 RB> P.S. Go up to north Texas (near the Oklahoma border) sometime and ask
 RB> the locals about chiggers. They'll tell you "Boy, they'll eat your
 RB> crotch out if you go into that field". Unfortunately, they're not
 RB> joking.

 RB> P.P.S. Ever sen a "horny toad"? They used to be common in north
 RB> Texas, but meanwhile are rare. I caught a lot of them as a boy, and
 RB> was always a bit scared about their fearsome appearance, but they are
 RB> quite harmless (eat flies, as I remember).

They are harmless, to humans. Flying insects are another ball game. We had
those up north too, when I was a kid. Probably still do. In California it
was Bull frogs, as big as a basketball. the canals in the Imperial valley
were so populated with them, they became a nuisance.

                R\%/itt




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