The thing I'm most 'scared' of in the woods....

[SAR 6114]

The thing I’m most afraid of in the woods is running into my ex-wife as she’s feeding on a fresh kill.

 

[BIKER13]

sulfur powder in your drawers,keeps chiggers away

 

[lokidogg]

Not to give you any more nightmare fuel but seed ticks are something I had never heard of before this spring. Wife & I had been hiking & anytime we went thru vegetation checked for ticks

After getting home & showering she asked me to look at some spots she had on her hip. They looked almost like little moles or flecks that wouldn't come off. Got some magnifying glasses & saw they were ticks.

Apparently when they just hatch they are tiny & look like seeds or just spots of dirt. Had to take tweezers & wear the glasses & pulled off over 70 of the little bastards then wiped the area with alcohol.

https://www.countryliving.com/life/news/a43076/seed-ticks-bites-kids/

I filled the lid of a coke bottle with one from off of my arm I stuck into some blkbery bushes. I wear briar guard duck hunting shirt even in the heat now. Itches for days.
DON’T get me started on the chiggers!

 

[Glorfindel]

Get you some Military grade DEET. Sure it might give you cancer but the bugs will leave you alone

 

[ChimChim]

Centipedes are my Kryptonite, they freak me out more than anything

 

[jeep78]

Rabbit fever as a other tick borne disease that is in Ga. The Rocky Mt Spotted Tick is the carrier.

Drs in Ga don't have a clue about this one. It kills 1 in 10 healthy adults

 

[Allsmiles]

Smear ticks in vasoline and give them about 5-10 minutes to back out. Put it on thick so they can't breath and have to come up for air. Ticks and chiggars are some of my favorite woodland creatures..or so you would thing as many I have have brought home.

 

[4ssss]

sulfur powder in your drawers,keeps chiggers away

I didn't know what a chiggar was until I started cutting back some brush, in shorts no less. Two days later and I was covered with welts from my legs to my belt line. I actually thought I had chicken pox, as I couldn't remember if I did when I was young. I read an article in Insider that had pics of bite marks on skin from different bugs and found out then. Here's the article if anyone wants to see it.

https://www.insider.com/bug-bites

 

[moosensquirrel]

let's talk hornets...real hornets, not wasps.

 

[lokidogg]

For you guys that say “I’d never heard of____”. I don’t think I would admit that on a forum specifically about outdoors and adventure. how old/backwards are you guys. Buncha city slickers.