As do I, along with no-see-umsLet’s talk chiggers. Now there is something I really despise.
Just seeing that makes me itchy LOL. I'd burn that along with the wood it's sitting on!
Years ago when I cleared the land to build a house I burned enormous piles of brush that contained plenty of poison ivy. The smoke hung low in the air and drifted back over the hill. The next day in church a neighbor from over the hill came in and was covered with red hives, he asked me what I was burning. If you burn it, stay far away from the smoke.As do I, along with no-see-ums
Just seeing that makes me itchy LOL. I'd burn that along with the wood it's sitting on!
I had two berry bushes fall victim to poison ivy last year. They'll actually break an older bush right in half from the weight if you don't catch it.
Lit them both up right where they were....Just went and tended to some others opposite side of the field to avoid the hospital trip.
alphagal disease. Never know you have it until one day you eat a burger and a few hours later you're breaking out in rash, etc, and for no apparent reason. Write it off as some kind of unknown allergy, and next time you have a steak, same thing.I have several friends that have had, and Still have issues with tick borne diseases. One guy is now allergic to eating red meat.
Years ago when I cleared the land to build a house I burned enormous piles of brush that contained plenty of poison ivy. The smoke hung low in the air and drifted back over the hill. The next day in church a neighbor from over the hill came in and was covered with red hives, he asked me what I was burning. If you burn it, stay far away from the smoke.
I'd avoid the alcohol, because it will actually dissolve the urushiol oil and spread it around. If you use cold water and soap when you wash, virtually all of the oil will be washed off....and post wash I wipe down with some 90% rubbing alcohol on my hands and arms.
Man, that thing looks 15 years old! I've cut some that large before. I typically leave the 'aerial' part just hang in the tree until it dries and falls off by itself. [When I was a kid, I got a nasty case of poison ivy rash from swinging on dead poison ivy vines - in the dead of winter! In Iowa!I missed a vine so i cut it today. Here is a sample just for you:
If you count the rings it appears to be at least 25 years old. This wasn't the largest that I cut, it was just one that I missed when making an effort to eliminate or reduce the inventory. One thing that helped was to cut the vines and wait till they grew about six feet since it was impossible to spray to the top, then soak them with Roundup to kill the roots and all.Man, that thing looks 15 years old! I've cut some that large before. I typically leave the 'aerial' part just hang in the tree until it dries and falls off by itself.
I never heard of oak mites. That sounds like chiggers. They are awful and itch like crazy. They sell a product called chiggarid that helps some.During summer months we keep a large bowl of sliced tomatoes, onions and cucumbers soaking in vinegar. I consume some every day. I put mustard on sandwiches, I take 1000mg odorless garlic tablets almost daily.
I can be working laying on the grass getting wire out of a mower, or walking through brush under trees and I might find a tick crawling on my arm, but I don't find them attached. A week ago I got into something I'm not familiar with and was told they are Oak mites. A little dot that itches and swells a bit. The vinegar did not chase them off. I ended up putting liquid band-aid on them!
Those critters are new to me, but they fit the description. I use to have a bottle of Chigger-aid but couldn't find it so the bottle of liquid band aid caught my eye. The next day I was setting and my wife began chipping away at the liquid band aid and asked my why it was there. Then she discovered three black dots I had captured! That actually worked pretty good.I never heard of oak mites. That sounds like chiggers. They are awful and itch like crazy. They sell a product called chiggarid that helps some.