Mosquitos and ticks...

Ammo08Ammo08 Missouri, USAPosts: 387MI6 Agent
in Off Topic Chat
Well, it finally got hot here in SwampEast, Missouri. I was working and hunting a little on some property in the delta and I was covered in ticks and mosquito bites...

Do ya'll have ticks and mosquitos in the UK? Do you need some? We have plenty, we'll share...
"I don't know if the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or imbeciles who mean it."-Mark Twain
'Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.'- Benny Hill (1924-1992)

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  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,865Chief of Staff
    No thanks, we have our own version here in Scotland! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_midge -
  • Mr MartiniMr Martini That nice house in the sky.Posts: 2,707MI6 Agent
    Skeeters don't like me. Of course, not many skeeters around here. Or at least not around me. I know they spray to keep the population down and encourage people not to leave standing water. Not many swamp around here in the SF Bay Area either.
    Some people would complain even if you hang them with a new rope
  • Ammo08Ammo08 Missouri, USAPosts: 387MI6 Agent
    Barbel, it sounds like ya'll have flying chiggers....
    "I don't know if the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or imbeciles who mean it."-Mark Twain
    'Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.'- Benny Hill (1924-1992)
  • always shakenalways shaken LondonPosts: 6,287MI6 Agent
    fortunately ,its to cold here in Blighty to get the pests that our state side cousins get ,I havnt seen that many wasps lately
    there seemed to be thousands around when we was kids ,I suppose the worst thing to get stung by in the UK would be a jelly fish ,but that is very rare,
    By the way, did I tell you, I was "Mad"?
  • danjaq_0ffdanjaq_0ff The SwampsPosts: 7,283MI6 Agent
    Im guessing you aint been stung by a hornet as :))
  • Sir MilesSir Miles The Wrong Side Of The WardrobePosts: 27,754Chief of Staff
    danjaq_0ff wrote:
    Im guessing you aint been stung by a hornet as :))

    Oh yea...vicious little beggars X-(
    YNWA 97
  • danjaq_0ffdanjaq_0ff The SwampsPosts: 7,283MI6 Agent
    Its like a red hot poker, to be honest I think id rather be branded than stung by one of those :))
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,865Chief of Staff
    Ammo08 wrote:
    Barbel, it sounds like ya'll have flying chiggers....

    It's just the right time of year for them at the moment. Bride of Barbel got bitten pretty bad by them at the weekend up at Crainlarich. Chiggers was not the word she used...
  • danjaq_0ffdanjaq_0ff The SwampsPosts: 7,283MI6 Agent
    We get big gnats here, but then I live in the fens and it is quite swampy here, and the locals are webbed footed :D
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I remember one summer getting up pulling on my jeans and going
    Down stairs, stopping to brush my hair in the hall mirror. When I heard
    A buzzing, took me a few seconds to figure out where it was coming
    from, " My Jeans !" , I didn't care who was about , the jeans were dropped
    Immediately, :)) , I didn't want the chance of getting stung on the. Willy. :))
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • danjaq_0ffdanjaq_0ff The SwampsPosts: 7,283MI6 Agent
    I had a Bee hit me in the nose and almost take me off my motor bike back in the day :D never rode with the visor up after that :))
  • danjaq_0ffdanjaq_0ff The SwampsPosts: 7,283MI6 Agent
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    I remember one summer getting up pulling on my jeans and going
    Down stairs, stopping to brush my hair in the hall mirror. When I heard
    A buzzing, took me a few seconds to figure out where it was coming
    from, " My Jeans !" , I didn't care who was about , the jeans were dropped
    Immediately, :)) , I didn't want the chance of getting stung on the. Willy. :))

    I bet ya GF at the time would have approved of the swelling TP :D
  • BarbelBarbel ScotlandPosts: 37,865Chief of Staff
    Thunderpussy wrote:
    I didn't want the chance of getting stung on the. Willy. :))

    No problem, it's just a little prick....
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    danjaq_0ff wrote : " I bet ya GF at the time would have approved of the swelling TP "
    But then she'd have been stinging me with Bees every week. :))
    Barbel wrote : " No problem, it's just a little prick.... "
    :))
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Ammo08Ammo08 Missouri, USAPosts: 387MI6 Agent
    When I was in high school, in the Dark Ages, a bee went up our instructors pants and stung him on the nads,,,he grabbed the door frame and said, "Boys, I'm gonna be sick...!" And he was.....poor man was sick for a week.

    We call people that live in the Delta "mudpuppies", it's our word for salamanders. Of course we're "ridgerunners" up here on the plateau.

    Right here where the Ozarks fall off into the Delta we have skeeters, ticks, and many other critters that bite and sting..one of the worst is horseflies...terrible things.

    We haven't started talking about poisonous snakes,,,we have copperheads, rattlers, and cottonmouths...cottonmouths are the worst...very aggressive...

    Hey, maybe Bond could come to the Ozarks...
    "I don't know if the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or imbeciles who mean it."-Mark Twain
    'Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.'- Benny Hill (1924-1992)
  • AlphaOmegaSinAlphaOmegaSin EnglandPosts: 10,926MI6 Agent
    We do have them over here, there called Politicians. :))
    1.On Her Majesties Secret Service 2.The Living Daylights 3.license To Kill 4.The Spy Who Loved Me 5.Goldfinger
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Yea, real blood suckers. :))
    At the local elections, at my door step I told one politician this. He replied
    that he wasn't corrupt. To which I replied ..................
    " Maybe, or you just haven't been caught yet " ;)
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
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