Mosquitos

[nrshida]

No not the wooden ones.

Apparently I'm one of the tiny percentage of people that Mosquitos find delicious. Conversely I seem to have a very bad reaction to their bites, I get blisters which look like burns. Only now with full horror do I realize the error of my ways. The correct criteria for choosing one's life partner has nothing to do with attraction, compatibility, respect or admiration. The correct thing to have done would have been to find someone who the Mosquitos find more tasty. 

Any other delicious people in the AH community?

[scott66]

  lol nah if they bite me I bite them back

[MrRiplEy[H]]

No not the wooden ones.

Apparently I'm one of the tiny percentage of people that Mosquitos find delicious. Conversely I seem to have a very bad reaction to their bites, I get blisters which look like burns. Only now with full horror do I realize the error of my ways. The correct criteria for choosing one's life partner has nothing to do with attraction, compatibility, respect or admiration. The correct thing to have done would have been to find someone who the Mosquitos find more tasty. 

Any other delicious people in the AH community?

Me. Luckily I don't get blisters though. I can sit in a company of 5 outdoors and I'm the only one constantly getting bit.

[nrshida]

lol nah if they bite me I bite them back

I chase them round in the daytime and clap them out of the air. Their ACM sucks they only know how to flat scissor. Too late then though, they've already vulched me sixteen times.

[branch37]

Me.  Find a friend that smokes, or sit next to a camp fire.  They don't like the smoke.

[cpxxx]

I was always ignored by them until recently even out in countries where they were prevalent. But last year I woke up one morning to find my feet covered in bites and had the same bad reaction. My feet swelled up. Scratching made it worse. Last week I was targeted again only this time on the back of my arms. But a quick application of baking soda eased the irritation.

The thing is that I live in the west of Ireland and I've never been conscious of them before. I've never been bitten before either. Apparently among the many things that attract them is the smell of beer. Dammit there's another reason to give up drinking!

[Scherf]

Apparently my ankles are delicious.

Right over the bone.

They must be delicious, as I get bitten regularly through socks on my ankles, but hardly ever on my unprotected hands.

[bustr]

As you age and your body changes, things you were never bothered by in your youth, which you were never aware of. Can suddenly become life threatening or at the least a gigantic bother.

Until last year after 57 years I was never bothered by water cress. About 2% of Caucasians have severe dermatological reactions to touching it. Eating it will swell up the throat. From the waist down I had a reaction like poison Ivy without the blisters. Fortunately I was part of the small percentage that 2000mg of vitamin C stopped all of the reactions in 15 minutes.

Wonder if you gents will have bad reactions to black fly's and all the relatives of the Horse and Deer fly. At least you don't have the Texas tick in the UK which can cause a severe allergy to red meat.

     

[Bizman]

You seem to like talking about mosquitoes! It wasn't too long ago since you started another thread about them: http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,351444.0.html

As for you being deliciously irresistible to them, your previous thread also contained information about how food and hygiene products may either repel or tempt mosquitoes.

cpxxx, thanks for the baking soda trick! bustr, I supposee people don't actually react to black flies or horse flies since they don't inject any blood thinner like mosquitoes do. Instead they bite a bit off and especially the tiniest eschars seem to itch like hell! And the smallest black flies are not only inaudible, they're invisible for aging eyes like mine... Gotta stop for testing the baking soda!

[bozon]

lol nah if they bite me I bite them back

Careful! there is nothing more dangerous than a wounded mosquito!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHBbJAIcnBI

[nrshida]

You seem to like talking about mosquitoes! It wasn't too long ago since you started another thread about them: http://bbs.hitechcreations.com/smf/index.php/topic,351444.0.html

As for you being deliciously irresistible to them, your previous thread also contained information about how food and hygiene products may either repel or tempt mosquitoes.

cpxxx, thanks for the baking soda trick! bustr, I supposee people don't actually react to black flies or horse flies since they don't inject any blood thinner like mosquitoes do. Instead they bite a bit off and especially the tiniest eschars seem to itch like hell! And the smallest black flies are not only inaudible, they're invisible for aging eyes like mine... Gotta stop for testing the baking soda!

Crikey you're right! What a memory you have! Every winter I forget about them and then every summer when I get bitten I remember them again. Only happens a couple of nights every summer.

Tiny Shida doesn't seem to interest them. Perhaps I am being employed by others as a solution 

This time I found this interesting article:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/are-you-a-mosquito-magnet/

[Slate]

   My wife never gets bit when I am around. 

   Must be my tasty blood.     I am not allergic though just the normal itchy. 

[guncrasher]

No not the wooden ones.

Apparently I'm one of the tiny percentage of people that Mosquitos find delicious. Conversely I seem to have a very bad reaction to their bites, I get blisters which look like burns. Only now with full horror do I realize the error of my ways. The correct criteria for choosing one's life partner has nothing to do with attraction, compatibility, respect or admiration. The correct thing to have done would have been to find someone who the Mosquitos find more tasty. 

Any other delicious people in the AH community?

I am one of those also.  It could be 200 below zero covered from head to toe and a fricking mosquito will come and bite me.  so I fight back.  I do my part by eating as many bugs that can be eaten as I can .


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[scott66]

Careful! there is nothing more dangerous than a wounded mosquito!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHBbJAIcnBI

love Monty python

[RotBaron]

They always seem to pick me over almost anybody else. Garlic pills to no avail. Never found anything that works well other than covering head to toe.

To many's surprise, Phoenix/valley is loaded with them even with our low humidity 

Odd thing though; in Alaska where they swarmed everything they left me alone.

I do have an electric tennis racquet looking device that fries them up rather effectively     nasty buggers.