On Oct 18, 7:23*pm, H the K wrote:
On 10/18/09 7:12 PM, Frogwatch wrote:



On Oct 18, 7:08 pm, H the *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.

You know, you might be fun...

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

I used to hear that indians in FL used to apply lots of mud to their
bodies to protect themselves from bugs. Wonder if this was true? If
it dried and flaked off, it'd still leave enough residue to minimize
exposed bare skin. How did they bear all the bugs? Yes, woodsmoke
does help, some but not enough.