Get the Bug Spray Out!!!
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Posted: Apr/26/2008 7:39 PM PST
It's tick and gnat season here in the Tidewater of VA This evening the kids and I went for a short walk in the woods across the street. Spent most of the time swatting at the gnats biting us. When we got back home I spent over an hour picking ticks of of us and our clothes. Thankfully all were still crawling and none had bit yet. Soon it'll be skeeter season The only thing about spring and summer I don't like- the biting bugs. At least the green flies aren't out yet, they HURT! |
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Posted: Apr/26/2008 8:27 PM PST
This time last year we were fighting Buffalo gnats and I certainly hope they dont appear again this year when things warm up! They would attack your face and head and leave welps and huge red spots and swelling. Many people had to go to the hospital last year for treatment. Are those the kind of gnats you have? If so.. I feel bad for you and hope we never have them here again 
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Posted: Apr/27/2008 12:08 AM PST
Living in the middle of the woods, we are infested with ticks too! The kids can't even go out to catch the bus without getting one on them and I get them on me everytime I work in the yard! The ticks around here just live in the tree tops and fall out of the trees. I don't want to resort to a pesticide but for the safety of my family's health I'm going to have to! Does anyone have any suggestions? |
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Posted: Apr/27/2008 2:03 AM PST
Ticks just plain give me the creeps!! My daughter in Indiana has already pulled two off my 6 year old grandson, a few off her hubby and some off her dog already and they have barely spent anytime outdoors this spring! She lives in a subdivision and no trees or woods nearby either!! |
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Posted: Apr/27/2008 5:45 AM PST
Yuck!Yuck!Yuck!!!!! They are my worst enemy I even like snakes better than ticks!!!!   I had seed ticks over most of my chest and back when I was young and they were biting and I just stood paralyzed screaming (not when they were taking them off..I stood in shock)until my mom and sis helped me!! scarrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey!At a youth camp I worked at the kids (and me) used socks with sulfer in them and hit them on our legs etc. and this repelled the bugs when we went hiking. Sounds weird but it works. |
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Posted: Apr/27/2008 5:55 AM PST
Get you some loud, screeching guinea fowl. They LOVE ticks. Or chickens! Personally, I keep Deep Woods OFF! at my front door and my back door in the summer. You spray your feet and ankles if you're just going for a walk, and you rub it in all over if you're going out to work! I have a bite on my ankle from my seed planting the other day. A chigger bite? Surely not if it were just one, but it's still there after a day or two, so I suspect that I just got the one. Time to shake up that leftover bottle of deet. I haven't started using it yet, but I will now, and I'll buy new this week. Thanks for the heads-up. |
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Posted: Apr/27/2008 6:20 AM PST
We don't have a lot of ticks here. Skeeters on the other hand? They have been out in full force for more than a week. I am hoping for cold weather just to kill some of them off! |
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Posted: Apr/27/2008 12:24 PM PST
Oh yes Witt, it could be just one chigger and if you don't put some nail polish on it then it can stick around for months! TX, we used sulfur in a sock at girls' camp too but we did it b/c the chiggers were so bad. I didn't know it helped for ticks too. I can't send my kids to school smelling like sulfur though. They'd get run out of the school! LOL! We have thought about getting some guineas b/c they are suppose to kill snakes too. I don't know if my dogs would appreciate them around though! |
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Posted: Apr/27/2008 3:31 PM PST
 yeah I knew that , lol, stinky kids people don't like to be aroung..lolskin so soft original by Avon maybe? guineas are so cool when I get a fence I will get a couple
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Posted: Apr/27/2008 5:12 PM PST
Avon SSS works wonders for me for mosquitos. Luckily I have never gotten a tick from my yard. The skitters are out in full force already this year though. Everyone take care while in the great outdoors. LB |
