(06-01-2021, 04:38 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: Yeah that would suck. The only thing worse is chigger bites. Good God is that a miserable thing to deal with. I have an allergic reaction to them and it's much worse for me than poison oak. The last time I had those on my torso; back, front and sides. I suffered for about two months with that.

In the fall I'll be out there in full coverage gear to yank those things out of the ground and dispose of them. I'm super lucky I didn't get it worse than I have but the random places its showing up is crazy. Patches on my stomach, both inner forearms, on my left hand, near my right armpit, inner left thigh, around my left ankle and right calf.

Haven't had to deal with chiggers, but every now and then I'll get a tick.  We treat our clothes with permethrin and spray our exposed skin with some deep woods off, but somehow every now and then one will make it onto me or my wife.

The thing we are dealing with right now is yellow flies (aka deer flies, horse flies).  Those things hurt when they bite and are quite annoying.  Thankfully the "season" for them is relatively short.

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