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Suzie-Q Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3330 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1 |
The Ferocious Bug That Sucks Prey Dry and Wears Their Corpses http://www.wired.com/2014/06/absurd-creature-of-the-week-assassin-bug/ ~Sue~ |
Angela Send message Joined: 16 Oct 07 Posts: 13131 Credit: 39,854,104 RAC: 31 |
Hey bug people. All the tips of my snap pea shoots got eaten off this year. My first thought was earwigs. Am I right to suspect them or is it more likely slugs/snails. |
anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
Hey bug people. All the tips of my snap pea shoots got eaten off this year. My first thought was earwigs. Am I right to suspect them or is it more likely slugs/snails. Finches? Found this on the internet - seems they'd exhausted all other possibilities. Long read but it may help discount them as culprits... http://forums.gardenweb.com/forums/load/rmgard/msg101615573316.html Suzie - hope your bites are healing well and that THAT picture you last posted is NOT your way of telling us something about how you're covering them up :) |
Suzie-Q Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3330 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1 |
My bites are healing well, thank God. They don't even itch anymore. One of the bites became a huge blister before it broke open. It got a bit larger than it was in this photo. That's the inside of my left calf, slightly above my ankle. The other bites I got became very small blisters. I sure would like to know what kind of mosquitoes they were to cause blisters like that. ~Sue~ |
Suzie-Q Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3330 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1 |
~Sue~ |
anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
Glad to hear they're healing - does look painful though :( |
rob smith Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 22227 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 |
Probably a combination of the mosquito bite and the existing inflammation causing your skin to "delaminate" (I'm sure there's a medical term for it..." Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
Suzie-Q Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3330 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1 |
Glad to hear they're healing - does look painful though :( Thanks. They weren't painful. They were very itchy, which can be worse than pain, sometimes.! ~Sue~ |
anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
Glad to hear they're healing - does look painful though :( Just got off the phone to my sister and she's had exactly the same problem today - with midges though (whilst gardening) and is covered with VERY itchy blisters :( She's trying calomine lotion and antihistamine - with no relief. |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
They were very itchy Really, you should try monosodium glutamate... |
Suzie-Q Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3330 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1 |
Glad to hear they're healing - does look painful though :( I've never heard of midges biting. I always thought they just annoyed you by flying around your head. ~Sue~ |
Suzie-Q Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3330 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1 |
They were very itchy Do you mean as a supplement, or something I'd rub on the itch? ~Sue~ |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
As soon as you can after the bite. Just a caution, perhaps do a small test first to make sure you are not going to have a bad reaction. We always sort of patted it on the affected area. It is also good for stinging nettles etc..... |
Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 8240 Credit: 14,654,533 RAC: 20 |
When I found a centipede in my boot the hard way, the corpsman made a paste of meat tenderizer to draw out the venom and help reduce swelling and infection. Just laid it on and covered it with gauze. Worked great. Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired |
Suzie-Q Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3330 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1 |
Ammonia is good for itches/bites if you get it on there pretty quickly. I had something called "After Bite" (brand name) that is just a small container of ammonia, but it was empty. I've put it on my shopping list. ~Sue~ |
Suzie-Q Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3330 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1 |
When I found a centipede in my boot the hard way, the corpsman made a paste of meat tenderizer to draw out the venom and help reduce swelling and infection. Just laid it on and covered it with gauze. Worked great. The corpsman carried around meat tenderizer? ~Sue~ |
Donald L. Johnson Send message Joined: 5 Aug 02 Posts: 8240 Credit: 14,654,533 RAC: 20 |
When I found a centipede in my boot the hard way, the corpsman made a paste of meat tenderizer to draw out the venom and help reduce swelling and infection. Just laid it on and covered it with gauze. Worked great. Yep. Accent, if I remember correctly. His office was right across the passage from the Galley on that boat, cooks alwaays had a big jar. Donald Infernal Optimist / Submariner, retired |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
I use it to help the kids forget that they just had an encounter with nature..... (Bugs, stinging nettles, and other such things.) |
Suzie-Q Send message Joined: 9 Mar 07 Posts: 3330 Credit: 4,746,812 RAC: 1 |
I was out mowing my back yard today. I pissed off a lot of grasshoppers! I saw a small toad trying to escape from the path of the blades, so I stopped, picked it up, and relocated it to a safe place. But the best thing for me was getting to see this beauty. It's a wolf spider carrying an egg sack. I've seen a lot of wolf spiders, including a couple with babies on her back, but I never thought about how the babies got there. Now I realize that she constructs an egg sac and carries it around with her until the little creatures emerge and climb up onto her back. I was afraid I'd lose her between the time I first saw her and the time I got out there with my phone/camera. I almost did. But while I was looking for her I saw yet another, smaller wolf spider with an egg sac. I didn't photograph that one. I was after the big prize! Isn't she marvelous?! . ~Sue~ |
anniet Send message Joined: 2 Feb 14 Posts: 7105 Credit: 1,577,368 RAC: 75 |
She is gorgeous Suzi!! So glad you managed to relocate her to take the pictures :) |
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