I have two defences against mosquitos.
Thick body hair they tangle in, and my body acclimates to regional mosquitos so I don’t get itchy.
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shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Unless you’re going all out with clothing-as-armor, naked is better.
Chiggers can’t directly get a grip on your flesh, mouth parts too weak. They gotta back that ass into something to get started. Like your clothes.
Ticks are instantly observable because without clothes you can feel them tickle. In any case, you can see them before they lock on.
Mosquitoes? I got nothing.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Acclimating happened when I moved here! I’d get eaten alive at sunset, itchy for 20 minutes. Now? I can’t remember an itchy bite, not for 20 years.
t_berium@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Hairy leg people might not be that safe.
guynamedzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Every time I read or hear “chigger” it always sounds like a slur
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I don’t dislike all bugs but those damn chiggers, man
pipe01@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Woah, it’s chigga for you
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Chigga please.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Ironically, people in the South call them “red bugs”. Felt like I was speaking slurs when I moved here.
Anyway, chiggers got no place in decent society. Just sayin’.
LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Idk, long sleeves, pants and socks seem to work fine for me. But maybe I am just genetically lucky or something, it’s been a while since I had one bite. Oh, and obviously taking a bath in icaridin.
RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Well you put your pants into your boots so the ticks have to climb all the way to somewhere where they can get on your skin. At that point you might be at home already and can strip away your clothes and yeet them to the washer
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I strip, scrub in the shower, yeet everything in into the washer on full hot.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I have had many ticks but never could I feel one of them walk around on me.
remon@ani.social 3 weeks ago
Most people seem to have a pretty bad sense of touch.
During certain times of years you get a lot of single spider-silk threads flying around and I constantly walk into them. But almost no one else seems to notice them.
Eq0@literature.cafe 2 weeks ago
People don’t notice them? I usually don’t see them and my brain immediately starts telling me ~something is weird~ on my arms.
Always takes me way too long to figure it out because the first thoughts are always incredibly rational “what if i got bitten by a giant snake i didn’t notice?” And “where is the crawling bug?” Only then “oh, yeah, the thin spider web…”
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
I recently have been bitten by quite a few ticks and can never seem to find them until days later. They are so fucking tiny, smaller than a grain of sand! Oh yeah just feel my legs? How do you tell the difference between a tiny scab from a thorn scratch or a tick then? Usually only find them once they have been there for a while and got bigger. Which isn’t exactly ideal.
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
If you are outside you need to just check for them.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
you’d probably notice if you woke up with one crawling up your arm
source: trust me bro (I have dogs)
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If I woke up and saw it sure. But I would jot wake up because of it crawling.
Source: trust me bro I had one 3 weeks ago almost bite my cock.