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09-21-2008, 10:08 AM
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mosquitos
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my leg is swollen, my cankles look like golf balls and one has even bitten behind my ear.not even the deet repellant (which makes my asthma abit funny) stops them from having a munch. and i didnt walk anywhere today - just going from the car and back 
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09-23-2008, 02:38 AM
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what aaaasssholes...got bitten again today. i wasnt even doing anything, i was indoors and one snuck in 
it seems that the caution on the DEET spray is true too, all 4 times ive used it ive noticed my asthma getting worse...so no more DEET spray. how the hell am i meant to block the little batards? answers on a postcard please...
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09-23-2008, 07:07 AM
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Either I dont 'taste' good anymore, or mosquitos have left Indiana. But I haven't gotten bitten what seems like 2 summers now.
DEET is dangerous stuff, but can be a life saver. I'm sure if you hit up a decent sized natural foods/general store, you'll find alternatives.
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09-24-2008, 03:40 AM
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will have to hunt one down - sadly they are overpriced in london and hard to come by in my end of town but at least im assured its vegan!
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09-25-2008, 11:21 AM
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Haha. Poor thing...Check out these natural tips to repel mosquitos:
http://www.thefrugallife.com/mosquitoes.html
Who knows...they might work!
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09-25-2008, 12:16 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by buzzingtalk
are SCUM!
thatisallfornow.
my leg is swollen, my cankles look like golf balls and one has even bitten behind my ear.not even the deet repellant (which makes my asthma abit funny) stops them from having a munch. and i didnt walk anywhere today - just going from the car and back |
HOLY CRAP YOU ARE RIGHT ABOUT THAT.
When me and my girlfriend went to Cuba for a week, we stayed that this resort that was (stupidly) built right over a swamp. I've never seen a place so infested with mosquitos!!! On the first night, she got 89 bites!! No joke! The next few days, the reaction was so bad, that she had to get this huge anti-allergy shot on her butt (which was kinda funny), but damn those mosquitos!!!
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Trips (only counting recreational travel):
FIRST TRIP (2005): FIRST EUROTRIP EVER! UK, France, Spain, Italy, Germany, Holland
SECOND TRIP (2007): First Solo Trip! Greece, Turkey, Syria, Spain
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2009: Japan & HK, Southern Spain
[size=1]2010: All over Lebanon, Ibiza (Spain), Oktoberfest (Germany), Thailand.
2011: India (Goa), Jordan, Jerusalem, San Sebastian (Spain), Amsterdam (again), London, Driving from Vancouver to L.A. (stopping in Portland, Seattle, San Fran and all the little stops), Montpellier (France), Geneva and Lausanne (Switzerland)
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09-25-2008, 02:29 PM
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So glad that mosquitoes don't like me....
(nor does poison oak/ivy/sumac)
All I have to do is be with a traveling partner - the bugs avoid me and head straight for my buddy...
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09-27-2008, 11:57 PM
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They shredded us on the Inca Trail this past week. The whole group got bitten like crazy...I´m still scratching, and we´ve been off the trail for almost 5 days now! Now, I remember why I´m not the biggest camping fan...
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09-28-2008, 01:27 AM
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Move to Austin...we have a few million bats living under the Congress Street bridge. Every night they all fly out in a huge black cloud (a tourist attraction actually) and eat all the insects!
You barely even need screens, except then the geckos would get in :D
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