Freakin' Mosquitos

[Spurfect]

Watch out for them bugs! Hopefully what happened to me won't happen to you guys!

look if you dare, lol

My BITE FROM !!

[TheSanityAnnex]

Watch out for them bugs! Hopefully what happened to me won't happen to you guys!

look if you dare, lol

My BITE FROM !!

Holy !!!!!!


That was all from a mesquito?

[Bob Lanier]

Sounds like my day. At least it's not monsoon season yet, when all breaks loose on the airborne disease-ridden biting ers front. Of course, "not monsoon season" is a relative term when it's been in the mid-80s with thunderstorms for the last week.

But, in the long run, you can't win, no matter what you try to use against them. I stay indoors and up-to-date on my vaccinations.

[Spurfect]

Holy !!!!!!


That was all from a mesquito?

i just updated that site with some story to it, i forgot to add it earlier. anyway the doctor didn't know, he said it could have been any bug even a mosquito and that it got really infected! so WATCH OUT!

[jman3000]

i just updated that site with some story to it, i forgot to add it earlier. anyway the doctor didn't know, he said it could have been any bug even a mosquito and that it got really infected! so WATCH OUT!

that looks like a spider bite ... you sure it was a mosquito?



before I forget ...

[Spurfect]

that looks like a spider bite ... you sure it was a mosquito?



before I forget ...

I was thinking a spider but then some people told me if it was a spider then there would be two puncture wounds and not one. I just had one. so I don't know...
I guess I should have warned y'all that the pictures were gross

[jman3000]

I was thinking a spider but then some people told me if it was a spider then there would be two puncture wounds and not one. I just had one. so I don't know...
I guess I should have warned y'all that the pictures were gross

That's not necessarily 100% true though.

I've never seen a mosquito bite get that big ... but I have seen spider bites get ugly like that.

not saying you're ugly or nothing

[Spurfect]

That's not necessarily 100% true though.

I've never seen a mosquito bite get that big ... but I have seen spider bites get ugly like that.

not saying you're ugly or nothing

maybe this particular spider wasn't much of a man and could only get one fang in, you know.. he did a half-assed job. I know lots of men like that

not too long ago before this one, something bit me while I was asleep and I woke up with one eyelid swollen, and shut. boy did i look ugly then

[jman3000]

maybe this particular spider wasn't much of a man and could only get one fang in, you know.. he did a half-assed job. I know lots of men like that

[rayray2k8]

I swear, the ing off actually ATTRACTS mosquitos then really repelling them.
But I love a good scratch.

[Hook Dem]

yeah my mom forwarded me an email the USPS sent out to their carriers about it. i have a half acre lawn and make sure to use a sheet when i mow the lawn. no bites the last 6 weeks (while mowing the lawn).

Don't forget to put one in your bottom pocket to keep skeeter off peter!

[boutons_]

Very strange, Kori. I have essentially no mosquitoes over here 410 @ Starcrest, and have done nothing to prevent them.

It's been about 3 years since I've been bothered my mozzies, like waking up with new bites on the face, or molested in the back yard. Even very wet spring '05 didn't bring them out.

OTOH, I was in Beaumont last weekend, and they were horrendously bad. DEET to the rescue.

[2Blonde]

Watch out for them bugs! Hopefully what happened to me won't happen to you guys!

look if you dare, lol

My BITE FROM !!

OMG!!!! That is exactly what my daughter's spider bite looked like in April. She also had just one puncture wound. They suspected it was a black widow and it just got one fang in. The only difference from you is that her lump ruptured on it's own while we were at the hospital before the doctor had to cut it open and drain it. But she had already been on antibiotics for 24 hours then. She got bit on a Wednesday and we took her to the doc on Thursday and then she kept getting worse so we went to the ER on Friday. That's when the thing finally burst open. After that it started healing. She started feeling better almost immediately after that crap drained out of her.

[pache100]

I never have problems with mosquitos biting me, but this year they are out of control. I have about 15 bites on my ankles.

They have never bothered me, either. When I was a kid, we lived in the swamp outside Charleston SC; they used to tear my little brother and my Mom up, but they never bothered me nor my Dad. I guess we were just too mean. After I moved near Lake McQueeney, they bother all my neighbors and anyone who comes to my house. But, I have never had over 10 bites in my whole life. I have had a few this year. They swarm up out of my grass when I cut it. There's no water standing anywhere on my property (but I only live a couple thousand feet from the lake edge) except my AC overflow, but, it seems like the bury down in the grass during the heat of the day. I frickin' HATE insect bites. I bought my first bottle of Cutter a couple of weeks ago; my Mom and sister live with it in their hand all summer; they live close to Cibolo Creek, which is stagnant this time of year (although probably not after the 4 1/2 inches of rain they have had in the past two days!) but not that close.

Another thing I can recommend is some little spring-looking things that are treated with citronella that you can put around your wrists and ankles when you go outside. We used them when we went to Colorado and my friend that I camp with is highly allergic to chemical pesticides, but she can tolerate citronella. I bought a set for both of us before we went, but the mosquitoes didn't bother me, so she wore both sets when we were in camp (there is usually some kind of water around the campgrounds up there). They worked pretty well. I don't remember what they were called, but I got them at Walmart in the Sporting Goods section; they look like those little coil wristband things you can put on your key ring. You might try to find some of those.

[jman3000]

OMG!!!! That is exactly what my daughter's spider bite looked like in April. She also had just one puncture wound. They suspected it was a black widow and it just got one fang in. The only difference from you is that her lump ruptured on it's own while we were at the hospital before the doctor had to cut it open and drain it. But she had already been on antibiotics for 24 hours then. She got bit on a Wednesday and we took her to the doc on Thursday and then she kept getting worse so we went to the ER on Friday. That's when the thing finally burst open. After that it started healing. She started feeling better almost immediately after that crap drained out of her.

hmmm... do you live in SA? i haven't heard of black widow's being very common down here. I could be wrong though.

but yeah, it definately looks like a spider bite.

[2Blonde]

hmmm... do you live in SA? i haven't heard of black widow's being very common down here. I could be wrong though.

but yeah, it definately looks like a spider bite.

Yes, we live in SA. But they thought it might be a black widow because she also have trouble with her vision and nausea.