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It helps to know your area you are working/stalking in and what to avoid.

Nothing will give away your position faster then a crawl over a red ant hill or hornets nest (many are under ground....I found out the hard way by stepping in one once). As far as many spider and bugs they don't tend to sting/bite unless provoked and many times will just crawl over your hand and keep going.

 

Jump up and down really fast screaming "IT'S IN MY HAIR!!! IT'S IN MY HAIR!!!". The enemy will be laughing so hard it gives you time to call for extraction and get to proper medical facilities. Or just silently swear and use the bite kit.

 

I hope you are not_that_allergic to bug bites.....if you are...I would try to look for another profession.

 

Nah, not me. I just flick it off of me and move on. No matter how much it hurts, no matter, how much it stings, cause I ain't got time to... DAMN THAT'S SWELLING!!!

 

Bleh bug bites... who cares... If you are in the military and you have played out in the field you have been bitten alot and should be use to it by now. There are tics, ants, fleas, chiggers, spiders, snakes, scorpions, bees and "and last but the one I hate the worse" mesquitos etc. If you have done a little bit of crawling you have problably been bitten buy just about all of these minus anything venemous. There are things you can do to stop chiggers, mesquitos from biting you by simply eating a sulferized match head 3 days before you go to the field "it works".

 

There are things you can do to stop chiggers, mesquitos from biting you by simply eating a sulferized match head 3 days before you go to the field "it works".

Is it safe to do this everyday of the summer???? :lol:


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I very rarely get bitten by bugs fortunately. I did once get the willies though when I walked through a large spiders web in the dark, to hear a loud thud followed by scuttling. I'm none too keen on spiders.

One of the most common things to be bit by are mossies, but the army has a cunning way of dealing with the issue, in handing out mossie repellant cream. Whoever is naive enough to put it on finds himself coated in the buggers while everyone else is safe.

 

so they have a bite kit i wasn't worried about burning feeling from getting bit i was thinking more about the ones that they tell us civilians to get to the hostpital as soon as possible not that worried about bites that sting

 

Jump up and down really fast screaming "IT'S IN MY HAIR!!! IT'S IN MY HAIR!!!".

LMFAO! :lol:

Anyway, if you get bit, you just have to crack on with it, unless you were bit by something poisonous, and that case you would need a casevac.

 

i recently dealt with a spider bite, boy do they suck, swollen red pain puss and it was right on my knee yea talk about pain when u walk, i tried to wait it out with some meds i had that didnt work, so i was cleanin it one night and it had a puss pocket so im like yea let me squeeze that out well nothing it seemed hard so i pulled on it and it was pretty solid so off to find the tweezers, no luck, mini pair of pliars did the job pulled out something the size of a m&m(i have pics of it) so theres now a big hole in my knee so im like holy $*!t what now, talked to my nurse friend she doctored it up next day went to the dr, she wasnt sure of what it was but with proper meds and some bactroban its doin alot better,so the whole story of this dont wait go to the freakin dr haha

 

i recently dealt with a spider bite, boy do they suck, swollen red pain puss and it was right on my knee yea talk about pain when u walk, i tried to wait it out with some meds i had that didnt work, so i was cleanin it one night and it had a puss pocket so im like yea let me squeeze that out well nothing it seemed hard so i pulled on it and it was pretty solid so off to find the tweezers, no luck, mini pair of pliars did the job pulled out something the size of a m&m(i have pics of it) so theres now a big hole in my knee so im like holy $*!t what now, talked to my nurse friend she doctored it up next day went to the dr, she wasnt sure of what it was but with proper meds and some bactroban its doin alot better,so the whole story of this dont wait go to the freakin dr haha

1) I appreciate your discriptiveness! :? psyche!
2) The mental image does not allow the desire to see pictures

 

Pictures? Whitecustomboy go and fetch it but be sure to post it in the GALLERY named "Spidyah is my friend"

 

Hey Whiteboycustom, where were you when this happened (part of the country, etc.)? I'm an entomologist (bug expert) and would really like to hear more about this. Can you email the pics to me so you don't have to post them?

I have an idea about what it was, but I'd rather not go into it before I know more of the facts.

 

im in southeast texas, i belive it was when i kneeled down to look under a trailor i was standing on some roofing shingles that had been blown off during hurricane rita, i can email u some pics send me a good email addy or tell me how i can email them to u ill do that when i get home and access to them

 

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