steppinthrax
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I've been stung by a bee twice in a month (two different locations on my property). I've seen some serious spiders (the type you usually see on nat geo). Plenty of silverfish, centipedes and beetles.
Insects very active here
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NorthBeachPerso
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Wait until you see the chupacabra.
desertrat
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Won't happen. I caught him last night using feral cat for bait. Gonna sell to the highest bidder or maybe domesticate him. As far as bugs, though, I've had a bunch more spiders than usual.
We've lived here 4 years now and I'm used to all these bugs around this time of year here. But I have to agree that this is the worst I've seen the spiders since living here. They seem to be bigger than ever and most of them are hairy in all sorts of colors I've never seen before.
BOP
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Train him to hunt Emus.
ArkRescue
Adopt me please !
desertrat
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Chiggers..I've never seen the chiggers so bad.
Kinda hard to see aren't they? I've seen some pretty small reddish looking mite type things crawling on our outside workbench, but I don't know if they are chiggers or not.
ArkRescue
Adopt me please !
desertrat
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Already did that. I know they are small, reddish and about the size of the o in "in god we trust" on a dime.
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Very easy to see where they've been though. I look like somebody went crazy on me with the point of a red Sharpie pen...
you can see them with the naked eye when they are on white/light clothing. Barely visible little specks that move..and move surprisingly fast too.
desertrat
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I'll bet it's the adults I'm seeing.
GopherM
Darwin was right
Those are probably spider mites. I have had the sunny end of my house almost completely covered with them before. The bad thing is, they are so small than can crawl through the mesh on most screens.
GopherM
Darwin was right
I would bet so too. Chiggers live in loose leaves and the like; in and around the edges of a wooded area. They will climb up low-lying bushes and taller grasses to jump on ya when you brush by..but that's about as far 'away from home' that they'll travel as far asI understand the nasty little buggers.
I got 'em whilst cleaning up some junk along the edge of my woods.
desertrat
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That looks like them. That and the fact that no one here has gotten chigger bites means these probably aren't chiggers I'm seeing.
nomoney
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We've lived here 4 years now and I'm used to all these bugs around this time of year here. But I have to agree that this is the worst I've seen the spiders since living here. They seem to be bigger than ever and most of them are hairy in all sorts of colors I've never seen before.
I've been noticing the spider infestation since early August.