On Oct 18, 7:08*pm, H the K wrote:
On 10/18/09 6:59 PM, Wayne.B wrote:



On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:08:51 -0700 (PDT), Frogwatch
*wrote:

On Oct 18, 5:28 pm, *wrote:
On Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:04:32 -0700, Frogwatch wrote:
Had my daughter at her crew practice so I took a walk an the nature
trail. *By the time I got outta the woods my legs were itching and by
Thur night I had obvious bites all over. *Now, I am covered with itchy
welts. *YIKES, redbugs. *I used to be immune to them what's going on
here. *I'd only get a few but this is major. *Now I see why people hated
them so much. *Oddly, my entire family was immune to them but now I am
not.

What are red bugs? *Chiggers?

Chiggers, yup

Try rubbing the bites with ammonia. *It's amazingly effective on
mosquito bites.

And it will improve froggy's natural body aroma.

--
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are
conservatives. - John Stuart Mill

I take two baths a year if'n I need em or not. Ya gotta build up an
external crust to repel the skeeters and chiggers, thas what happed,
my crust was too thin.