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Ben, have you ever taken a hot epsom salt bath to get rid of chiggers?Fill the tub with water as hot as you can possibly stand it.then pour in a gallon of epsom salts and stir it in,maybe even pour it while the tub is still filling to disolve it.then get in.the hot water will make the bites...

Ben, Yes the chiggers are out but it's hard to tell in what force because were all doped up.Occasionally one gets thru my defenses and leave a bite or two on my ankles.I'm afraid to go out unprotected to be a guinea pig to give a good report. Paddler, I was in church the other day and they...

I've seen maybe ha;f a dozen widows in my life.one was wrapping up a bug and another lived in an old hippies teepeee that I used to hangout with in the 80"s.he let the thing live with him and raise an eggsack up in his teepee.he lived in the woods on a friends property.he was a vietnam vet that...

Ben, Actually the flies were non existent today,no skeeters either.The ticks are bad if you forget your permethrin but both of us were walking chemical factories.The ticks and chiggers get on you,then start a drunken stagger,then fall off.Peremethrin is bad stuff. Al

Chris, Their are no trails to the graves and their is no man sign,plants or otherwise that people ever lived there.Their only shown on one map that i know of and that map isn't detailed enough to really be a help.I found them through a friend who found them hunting.The one stone with the...

yes it was a good day.not too hot and still stones to search for.The pics turned out real good even with the contrast. What do we do when we find the last stone?I wonder if all the eastern states have these real old stones lurking in their woods?Come winter I think the stones in hiding because...

rough greens are different from smooth greens due to the fact they have keeled scales which makes them feel rough to the touch.a keeled scale has a ridge down the center.Look closely at his hognose pics and you can see the keels.the racer on the other hand is a smooth scales snake.a black rat...

Grendel. water moccasins as far as the experts can tell extend no further north then Richmond city park where the northernmost colony currently resides.Their definitely a flatwater lowland type snake.The rappahannock at fredricksburg is at the fall line an is quite fast water for what their...

Jim, that orange flowering plant is called butterfly weed.It generally grows by itself and not in a bunch and is common to disturbed sandy soil and loves hot barrens and old fields. Al

Chris, how did you know he was a conservation officer?You know him personally?Honacheski? Jersyman, I just noticed on the hartman map it says resurveyed in 1831 by david Kinsey.Don't know when the original survey was and don't know if he surveyed every line on the map or just select...

Dragon, We were in the manumuskin swamp when we found that painted box turtle.we were east of the creek and west of port cumberland road in the swamp and upstream from fries mill.we were about a half mile from the nearest house through some pretty thick woods by our standards.not a turtles of...

Did I take that picture oh barrens buddy?I know you went there once with the family and once with me.i can't remember snapping it but maybe I did? Al

I've never been a fan of the drug culture even when I was a kid.I knew how to say no before they made it into a commercial but today I admit I did get stoned and astonishingly it was by a HIGH society stone.It was under a morass of black huckleberry and it stoned me at kneecap level.Then later...

coy dogs? I just finished readin Paul Rezendes's book "Tracking and the Art of Seeing" and he states that according to biological studies that pups from coyote and dog breeding are always not viable(Their sterile and can't continue the line) where as coyote and wolf breedings do happen and the...

you should see what they were doing in some vernal ponds along the track back by batona camp.thats all they see is a big muddin hole and it's not just out of staters.some of the biggest idiots are the locals.belive me they don't even have a clue what they're doing.i got in my brothers gear...

Billy don't know,never been in da plains in da rain.knows they aggervates me sunshine or rain so eyes only see da plains on sunday.hates them nasty plains don't we precoius. Alfie

Yes daragon that was the stone next to the trail we walked that day the scott line markers are not far from that one and we believe their connected though the stone is probably much older.\ I didn't fare near as badly as Guy and jessica.I had hastily sprayed peremethrin on before i left.This...