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It's a bit odd. I have seen many who get bit like crazy, from sand fleas or mosquitos or, god forbid, bed bugs -- but I have never ever been bitten (well, maybe one or two mosquitos in all my trips).
Plus, most of my stays have been at RIU Club -- the bite capital of Negril.
How can we explain how some get bit like crazy while others never get bit at all?
Mosquito bites don't seem to bother me very much. If I resist scratching, they are usually gone in 30 minutes. Maybe this is why I don't remember being plagued by bugs in Negril. There are some bugs (40 legger etc.) there that if you are ever bitten by them, you will remember it.
Respect,
Col. Andy
gerry it could depend if you come in contact with cleaning chemicals or not, back on my first trips i was working as a cleaner to make some extra money, during those trips i never got bit once, others who were staying at same place got bitten lots of time. Its turns out that even though we couldn't smell the chemicals on me the bugs could
I always end up with a few bites, mostly on my legs, from those nasty no-see-ums. Hubby never does, not here at home either. Maybe I'm just too sweet...:)
mi have never understood all dat biting stuff on here over the years........
cause mi have yet to get bit in Jamaica including when mi had the cottage with no screens on the windows....
guess with all mi years I had up in New England with the black flies and mosquito's nuthin bothers mi in Jamaica....lol
FYI mi don't get bit here in Florida either.......only have to watch out for bees etc........
Cool Runnings, Marko
I have never seen a biting insect nor ever been bitten.
The only time I ever notice bites is if you are on the sand during sunset...then I can feel the sand fleas bite..but I know better and don't even get near the sand during that time of day. At night I always wear jeans or capri's when out and just spray my ankles with OFF and that seems to work as I never end up with bites.
Never a bite here.
Is it "never ever" or "maybe one or two Mosquitos in all my trips" Can't have it both ways.Quote:
Originally Posted by gerryg123
I rarely get bit but even once is a long, long way from never ever.
Peace and Guidance
Well, gotta say I have been bitten. However, almost always has occurred on the beach around sunset. Once I started staying pon da cliffs, bites almost non-existent!
Markus didn't get a single bite on our last trip. Not one!
Meanwhile, I was absolutely covered from head to toe. I spent the first night sitting on the balcony and woke up with big spots all over my body.
I should have sprayed on some "OFF", but I didn't....
I guess some people are just lucky and others... aren't;)
I bring it up because so many trip reports, particularly on TA, end with the phrase: "Make sure to bring bug spray!"
I'm in your boat clarity...They seek, search and destroy me those bugs...and being allergic to the bites-well looks like I been beat head-to toe...I hate using chemicals (ie deet,etc) of any kind-but after experimenting with natural stuff(didnt work) have resort to that toxic soup of deet or stay in log shirt/pants at night..
Gerry..guess they don't bite you cuz you aint sweet enough (LOL) but seriously consider yourself lucky...
Never leave the room without a small bottle of deep woods off the bugs love me if i forget, which happened once during this trip! One time I bought a tshirt on the beach and put it on, by the next morning a had a sand flea tshirt on! almost ruined the trip, felt sick for a couple days.
Never had a bug bite in Jamaica. I'm from Northern Ontario (where the hit rate can be up to 200 per minute) if there aren't clouds of them, its a nice day.
Lance always seems to get bittin by the sand flea's. Sometimes worse than others. Me not so much i feel them sometimes but skin does not react.
I have always said me blood to rich for them. But one night I woke up with my leg really burning and and feeling numb. It got so bad I had to get up
and investigate. Woke Lance up and he's like what's going on. I say something bit me. The sheets we're thrown back and a bee flew up and towards
the light. OK Lance kill that sucker. So I say check them sheets before you retire for the night. I guess that little sucker clung to the sheets while
drying on the line.
Something happened this past summer. Again I woke up with myself on fire, a lot stronger feeling than ever before. I felt like I had been branded.
I put a cold cloth on it with no satisfaction. I had to go back to sleep, as I had a Family Reunion the next day... 2hr drive. I got through the day ok
and it was so much fun seeing everyone. Lance cooked up Jerk chicken...that was hit. No one really wanted the dogs and burgs. Well back to this
now very red spot on me. Drove back to where we we're camping and by night fall it turned into a blister. Lance says you must of got too close to the firepit, no man me didn't. Lance came up with another solution I am allergic to different metals. I was wearing a Tshirt with metal rings maybe
that's what did. Ok so he had me convinced that the metal was what did it. A week went by and it just got worse and worse....It looked awful!
Some say it looked like flesh eating disease. I had a friend come by she right away said that's a spider bite. You need to put poltice on it. Well
what the heck is that and she told me. After she left I researched and researched some more. All the evidence points to the Brown Recluse
Spider. I suffered with this for almost 3 months. I really thought I was going to have a gaping hole with the size of the scab. Well no hole thank
god. But I got one nasty scar that I will have to keep out of the sun this Feb. So if you see me on da beach with something unusual stuck to me
you know why. Just don't know what me gonna put there.
I wanted to share this to keep people aware. Nobody thought they're was this spider in Ontario. A week or 2 later someone that was camping
beside us took a picture of this very spider. So they are here! To identify they are brown with a violin shape on there body. Yuck! I always
hated spiders now I am just darn paranoid of them.
my legs used to get covered by sand flea bites.it would ruin my vacation.then i thought about dog flea collers,and tried them.you put them on loosly so they can slide around on your ankles,even where them in the water.now i can walk the beach at night without getting one bite.lot of ppl think it will put poisen in your legs,but it washes of in the water so IF it is poisenious.it comes off.and in the last 20 years of going to jamaica,not one bite.i even took them of the last week i was in jamaica once to see if it was indeed the fleacollers that prevented them from biting me,and i had about 50 bites when i went home,so they DO indeed work for me.many ppl have wrtten to me thanking me for the tip.saying it also worked for them,so try it once and see for your self,it DOES work for many,and we are still alive. now i put them on when i get to my room,and leave them on till i get in the taxie to go home
I had not even ONE....and at home they love me go figure
The wife always gets bit! Me - never - But that's because she's so much sweeter than I am!
Insects are attracted to particular scents
The do not like deet
They do not like lemongrass
They (apparently) do not like rum!
Pick YOUR flavor
Thank Ja! I'll be protected... :DQuote:
They (apparently) do not like rum!
I'll need deet, lemongrass and rum then. Them bugs love me. :(