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yesterday morning i had a little itch on my knee. last night it was a bit swollen and starting to scab/weep a bit
This is how it's doing this morning. Never saw/felt the culprit. possibly a sleep bite, or something when I had to run outside for a minute at 11pm to take care of something

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Audit at work starts tomorrow, so this will be great timing if i suddenly develop an infection ad my temperature goes up, since we prescreen everybody.

For reference, mosquito bites usually swell and disappear in about 30 minutes.
 
Fire ant burns like hell and then a blister forms.
If you break the blister it can get infected.
Then, it itches.
 
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If you wake up tomorrow with a big oozing hole in your knee get some maggots to start eating the dead flesh.
 
The crab spiders bite, I don’t feel it, then it itches and has a scab that falls off & weeps almost daily for a week. The buggers always seem to make a web ~chest height, face height when mowing trails. Chiggers (they’re in the spider family) do the same. It keeps weeping and itching because their saliva is dissolving flesh. The longhorn tick bite does the same.
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Mirac said:
Fire ant burns like hell and then a blister forms.
If you break the blister it can get infected.
Then, it itches.
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yard is packed with them little red biting ants. I'm quite familiar with them, and that's why i always wear boots and long socks when doing yard work now... i started here last summer just wearing mesh sneakers and no socks. that was a stupid.
 
Mike Overlay said:
MRSA?

Better wear a mask and wait two weeks to be sure
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unless it develops into a full lyme disease bullseye rash, i should make it through okay.
I rubbed an alcohol prep pad on it, smeared some triple antibiotic ointment on it, and slapped on a bandaid when i got out of the shower. That could cure darn near everything when i was growing up.
 
DrScaryGuy said:
yesterday morning i had a little itch on my knee. last night it was a bit swollen and starting to scab/weep a bit
This is how it's doing this morning. Never saw/felt the culprit. possibly a sleep bite, or something when I had to run outside for a minute at 11pm to take care of something

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Audit at work starts tomorrow, so this will be great timing if i suddenly develop an infection ad my temperature goes up, since we prescreen everybody.

For reference, mosquito bites usually swell and disappear in about 30 minutes.
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From the description of the bite, it sounds a lot like a "deer fly" bite. We have squadrons of them out here in the tules.
 
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It's hard to say. That looks like one of about 20 different types of insect bites.

Make sure it stays clean, you can apply some triple antibiotic ointment to it or some cortisone cream if it itches. If it really blows up, take zantac or Benadryl.
 
Pink_Vapor said:
The crab spiders bite, I don’t feel it, then it itches and has a scab that falls off & weeps almost daily for a week. The buggers always seem to make a web ~chest height, face height when mowing trails. Chiggers (they’re in the spider family) do the same. It keeps weeping and itching because their saliva is dissolving flesh. The longhorn tick bite does the same.
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HOLY CRAP!!!
 
DrScaryGuy said:
yesterday morning i had a little itch on my knee. last night it was a bit swollen and starting to scab/weep a bit
This is how it's doing this morning. Never saw/felt the culprit. possibly a sleep bite, or something when I had to run outside for a minute at 11pm to take care of something

View attachment 216245

Audit at work starts tomorrow, so this will be great timing if i suddenly develop an infection ad my temperature goes up, since we prescreen everybody.

For reference, mosquito bites usually swell and disappear in about 30 minutes.
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Any symptoms other than swelling and weeping? Pain or mild to intense itch?
 
REELDOC said:
If you wake up tomorrow with a big oozing hole in your knee get some maggots to start eating the dead flesh.
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You know, that's a thing. ;)
 
yes. i died.
i was just looking at it last night and thinking that it cleared up pretty well. just a little red scab with a 1/3" bit of discoloration around it now. I haven't started feeling any neuro effects yet, so i think i'm in the clear.

Though this morning I did find an interesting little patch of bug eggs and tiny black bugs on a cardboard box i intended to re-use... after i tracked it all over and put it on the couch, rug, desk, floor, my backpack, etc.. so this will be exciting.
I flipped it over to do one final layer of tape around to hold everything in and said "wtf is that? ... crap..." and then picked up all the nastiness with packaging tape, then vacuumed a bunch of surfaces.
 
never seen these before, but they can't fight those layers of packaging tape! slow, tiny, don't jump, don't run, don't look bitey, aren't spiders roaches ticks or chiggers... so that covers the main concerns.
the fun of new seasons in a new house in a new area is finding what lived there before you.

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J R Green said:
I find that quickly washing those bites with an antibacterial soap will lessen the spread of the welt.
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If you know anyone who smokes, get a cigarette, soak in water, and put the leaves on it. It will suck that weeping stuff right out. I am all the time scavenging butts off the driveway of my neighbor for that precise purpose. Yeah, I know. Not exactly antiseptic in my germ awareness.

I do plan to visit a tobacco field up the street and get a few leaves once the field is picked. That stuff is amazing for skin wounds/bug bites.
 
DrScaryGuy said:
never seen these before, but they can't fight those layers of packaging tape! slow, tiny, don't jump, don't run, don't look bitey, aren't spiders roaches ticks or chiggers... so that covers the main concerns.
the fun of new seasons in a new house in a new area is finding what lived there before you.

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Eeww... I hope they dont crawl into your ears while you are sleeping tonight.... :eek:
















:D
 
rdinatal said:
Fire ant?
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I got my first fire ant bite ever in 60 yrs about 2 weeks ago. I had on socks and Crocs (the ones with the holes) shooting skeet. Felt a sting on my instep. Itched a little bit. Really started to itch 24hrs later. Look up with google for picture. I did. Damn. Fire ant bite. This is just one and it's still there 2 weeks later. I cant imagine getting wrapped up in them which I have heard of and usually put you in the hospital. They are particularly bad this year at our range. We are directly applying Ortho product that looks like flour. I have been told once you get them you cant get rid of them all you can do is try and control. Gasoline and a match works well too. Their mounds are popping up everywhere.
 
jimmyjames8 said:
I got my first fire ant bite ever in 60 yrs about 2 weeks ago. I had on socks and Crocs (the ones with the holes) shooting skeet. Felt a sting on my instep. Itched a little bit. Really started to itch 24hrs later. Look up with google for picture. I did. Damn. Fire ant bite. This is just one and it's still there 2 weeks later. I cant imagine getting wrapped up in them which I have heard of and usually put you in the hospital. They are particularly bad this year at our range. We are directly applying Ortho product that looks like flour. I have been told once you get them you cant get rid of them all you can do is try and control. Gasoline and a match works well too. Their mounds are popping up everywhere.
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Careful with the gas and match thing. We just had a guy a few weeks ago who had a hill at the corner of his woodworking shop. Poured gas on it a lit it up and then poured water on it. Thought it was out and guess what happened next. Yep, burned his shop to the ground.
 
I have found just pouring kerosene or diesel fuel on the mound and leaving it alone works ok without lighting.

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pikepole20 said:
I have found just pouring kerosene or diesel fuel on the mound and leaving it alone works ok without lighting.

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*may not be ideal for people with shallow wells
 
Fire ants just showed up here last year. Mounds all over my fields. I tried befrin? liquid but must have not applied enough because they pretty much just moved over about 10 yards or so. I believe Orthene Fire Ant Killer is what I finally used and now there aren't any hills at all. It is a bait which the workers carry back to the queen. If you don't get all the way down to the bottom of the nest and get her you aren't accomplishing anything except moving the queen over a bit and she starts all over again. I like a good dose of diesel fuel with a little gas mixed in for ground hornets though.
 
I get up ate up with fire ants daily. It's slightly painful, but you would have to be mighty allergic to need hospitalization. One of the things we do is use a sharpshooter to dig up a big mound and dump it on another mound and watch chaos ensue. Those little bastards will kill the hell out of each other.
 
pikepole20 said:
I have found just pouring kerosene or diesel fuel on the mound and leaving it alone works ok without lighting.

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I just take a shovel and pick up a slice of the nest, pour about a cup of gas into the hole and drop the dirt back down on top. The fumes fill all the underground passages and wipes out the nest. Never thought about setting them on fire, but it's not like the little bastards don't deserve it.
 
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