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at140

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14. I under-estimated those tiny ants in the beginning
Sat Sep 3, 2022, 01:51 PM
Sep 2022

when moved to FLorida. I like doing yard work and landscaping the yard. I was on my hands and knees doing work on ground. Therse ants are tiny but as soon as their nest is disturbed, they swarm out of the mound, and bite on the exposed skin quickly. Before one realizes, there are already dozens of stings. Now I will not work in grass without long rubber boots and gloves, which is torture in hot and humid Florida for 8 months during the year, but the bites are far worse. I have been using hydrogen peroxide on ant bites and it works better than anything else like that triple anti-biotic ointment.

If you saw pictures of my infected ant bites on legs, it looked worse than monkeypox!

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One of my nightmares Bayard Sep 2022 #1
Oh my, please take special care and stay safe! appalachiablue Sep 2022 #3
Holy Mother of God.... Historic NY Sep 2022 #2
For real, and why wouldn't the fire dept. truck have & use a water hose I wonder.. appalachiablue Sep 2022 #4
My dad used to tell us about african bees coming up from South America. applegrove Sep 2022 #5
Movies sensationalized the threat. Some people don't even know they arrived years ago. Grokenstein Sep 2022 #9
Hopefully people will be more careful now that we know they have arrived. applegrove Sep 2022 #10
Thanks & the Trumpnik analogy fits. appalachiablue Sep 2022 #13
Good on your dad for ending the stories. Glad this man will survive & appalachiablue Sep 2022 #11
Yes. I stepped in a bush of hornets. I was only stung a dozen times or less. My mom had applegrove Sep 2022 #16
I have survived 300 stings by at140 Sep 2022 #6
Holy moly, good for you, that's resilience. appalachiablue Sep 2022 #8
I under-estimated those tiny ants in the beginning at140 Sep 2022 #14
Tx, I'm going to remember this, when younger I did a lot of appalachiablue Sep 2022 #17
"even ingested some of the insects" Grokenstein Sep 2022 #7
Yep, aim for the face openings, likely the case w my ancestor, # 11. appalachiablue Sep 2022 #12
The wasp went for my ear lobe when I was at140 Sep 2022 #15
Poor thing, like a tomato! appalachiablue Sep 2022 #18
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