OT-Swarmed in the swamp!

Shirley the key to eating raw garlic, is not to wash it down with water, but with vodka.:D :p

Pickled garlic is very tasty as well, and alot of the aftertaste that people dont like in raw garlic is gone, when pickled.
 
Shirley the key to eating raw garlic, is not to wash it down with water, but with vodka.>>

Great; another drunk with garlic breath.




munk
 
Pickled garlic is very tasty as well, and alot of the aftertaste that people dont like in raw garlic is gone, when pickled.
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I don't taste much of anything when pickled. (Comes from washing it down with vodka)
 
Originally posted by munk
Shirley the key to eating raw garlic, is not to wash it down with water, but with vodka.>>

Great; another drunk with garlic breath.




munk
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Hehehehe the things you learn from Nuns:eek: :D :p
 
Hi Shirley! On some of my week long pack trips I've had good luck eating RAW garlic. The pills and cooked haven't worked so good for me. I've had the best luck eating a couple of cloves a day; even try leaving a crushed clove in yur mouth when things are real bad. Problem is it keeps your buddies and spouse away too (especially if they aren't consuming the same monster quantities)! I've had good luck with B vitamins also, gotta start a couple of weeks before the bug season any results though. Stopped using DEET most of the time after it ate the finish off my Winchester's stock :mad: :eek: I've heard good things about the Basic H from Shalee but haven't used it myself.
 
Couldnt you just rub the garlic on yourself so that you can just wash it off, rather than have, ummmm, uncontrolled release for an excessive duration?
 
What bugs don't like the desert? Ants love it and there are others. At least enough to keep some large arachnids (mostly huge black widows) happy. Remember base housing at George AFB, CA. Went to put something in the storage out front and thought I saw a mouse run behind a box. What I thought was a mouse came around the other side and it was a Black Widow Spider! Too big to mess with. Must have been feeding on something. Don't remember too many neighborhood kids disappearing so must not have been dining on humans. Maybe it liked mice. Don't know. Just always thought they liked bugs.
 
Then there was the arrival in Phoenix. The kids (then 3&4) were stretching their legs (OK maybe mom was running off energy of 2 boys couped up in the car for 8 hours)and the red ant hill. The biggest ants I ever saw. One went up Ed's pant leg all the way biting. Poor kid. Fortunately he was still young enough for dad to carry with a blanket wrapped around cause it was a few days befor he wore pants again.:eek:

I think every place has it's own irritating bugs. In Guam you had the 4 inch water bugs (or was that 10 inch???) that loved to fly right down your shirt. Sorry to the neighbors who happened to catch me ripping it off in the lanai.:rolleyes: I still can't believe people actually eat those things!!:footinmou :rolleyes: :D
 
While on Guam had pet Banana Spider in Lanai which did it's bit to control the out of control bug population.
 
Originally posted by mamav
My revenge was a can of raid and size 9 shoe.:D
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Oh My Gawd!!!!! Gin is related to the famous "Mizzuz Peggy Hill" of King of the Hill fame!!!!!! ;) ;) ;) :D
 
Originally posted by Bill Martino
One of the reasons I've always like the desert is because the bugs don't like it.
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Amen!

I've found that different regions' bugs prefer different things.

Avon's Skin-so-Soft is nothing more than BBQ sauce for Belizian mosquitos. I think it may actually encourage them.:(
DEET worked better there, but you had to slather so much on your skin, it felt like sunburn from those nasty chemicals.:(

A lot of the archaeologists I was with smoked, and that seemed to have a little effect, maybe. Even better, though, was to drink heavily at night. The local rum in Belize is called Carribean and is pretty tasty. And once you started sweating out rum in the morning, the bugs seemed to take less of an interest.
YMMV.
Of course none of this is total protection: the first time I went to Belize, the girl I went there with had a bot-fly larva hatch out of her leg after she got back to California.:eek: :barf: She was not pleased.:)
 
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had a bot-fly larva hatch out of her leg after she got back to California.:eek: :barf: She was not pleased.:)
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Would not be able to contain my displeasure either!

Guess it's a matter of which varieties you're more willing to put up with.
Come to think of it, at least Blackflies do not hatch out of one's body, that I know of.


Stevomiller:
I suspect raw may work best also. Just can't do it that way well.
 
Someone told me that the orange cleaner that Billy May sells in those silly TV comercials is good for keeping mosquitos from biting. I tryed it and it does work, at least on the bugs we have in the Everglades. Just spray it on. It doesn't iritate skin or melt plastic.
 
Shirley, You might experiment with this. Copied this from a friend of mine's email. Haven't had a chance to go camping lately to try it out. I have also read something similiar on a camping site, somewhere.
I do know when the 'June Bugs' are out and heavy, leaving a half bucket of water out at night, sure collects a lot of June Bugs.




If someone lives in "skeeter" country, this may be a handy and cheap way to help.


I received this from a friend of mine. Please let me know if it works. Howard

This is a tip from my daughter in law who is an hydrologist for the U,S. Park Service. They ought to know something about bugs. Try it to see if it works

> > Pass this on to anyone who likes sitting out in the
> > evening or when
> > they're having a cook out. So you don't like those
> > pesky mosquitoes,
> > especially now that they have the potential to carry
> > the West-Nile
> > Virus? Here's a tip that was given at a recent
> > gardening forum:
> >
> > Put some water in a white dinner plate and add a
> > couple of drops of
> > Lemon Fresh Joy dish detergent. Set the dish on your
> > porch, patio, or
> > other outdoor area. I'm not sure what attracts them,
> > the lemon smell,
> > the white plate color, or what, but mosquitoes flock
> > to it, and drop
> > dead shortly after drinking the Lemon Fresh
> > Joy/water mixture, and
> > usually within about 10 feet of the plate. Check
> > this out---it works
> > just super!
 
Ics37:

Presently I have wet weather and forecasted for the next few days.
Thereafter, will give it a go. Have to find some nifty way to suspend white dinner plate or use different suspendable white container. Most of my animals are free range. Including one(a goat) possibly dumb enough to think it tastes good!:rolleyes:

Will let you know.:)

Shirley
 
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