Posted on 05/22/2015 3:58:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A hike at Ransom Canyon turned serious for two Lubbock women on Monday when they were attacked by a swarm of mosquitoes.
Carrie Shores and Megan Raden are Texas Tech students who just wanted to enjoy the outdoors with their friends when mosquitoes that "looked like flies" began to bite them.
The mosquitoes continued to bite them even as they were running; including bites on their faces. They were still a distance away from their vehicles, and both said the mosquitoes did not stop chasing them until they reached a residential area where officials spray repellent.
Once Shores and Raden returned to their Lubbock home, they decided to get pens out to circle the bites on their bodies.
Shores had a "very unlucky" amount of 124 bites, mostly on her legs. Raden had 81, mostly on her arms since she wore a tank top that day. The roommates had to purchase Benadryl and cortisone cream to relive their intense itching.
Shores and Raden both admit they did not wear mosquito repellent that day, because Shores had been to Ransom Canyon the week before and did not notice a mosquito problem.
But now the women said they learned their lesson and have a bottle of repellent in their back yard as a precaution.
They’re getting bad in Houston. It’s been raining for weeks with not much relief in sight.
Maybe it’s just me, but reading these responses is making me itch all over....
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The thickest swarm of mosquitoes that I ever saw was on the Texas coast near Angleton. I and a buddy drove a pickup truck to a remote pasture to check on some stray cattle. As we drove through the grass, we stirred up a cloud of pestilence, the likes of which has not been seen since the ten plagues of Egypt. We figured those were newly hatched critters looking for their first meal; they covered the truck entirely, trying to bite it. They seeped in through the smallest cracks of that old truck. I recalled Alfred Hitchcocks movie “The Birds” as we got the hell outta there!
I’m told bats eat mosquitoes. Then what we need is more bats...
Just another reason not to come to Texas, Satan got Hell, we got bats and mosquitoes and killer bees and fire ants. And they’re all bigger in Texas. Have a nice day.
The winters do, in winter. Nobody gets bit by mosquitoes then. You need an early spring with warm temps to hatch them out, then a cold snap for a week and you won't see the skeets again til July.
I've heard of cows dying due to loss of blood to Texas mosquitoes.
BTW, I think with "yellow flies" or "dog flies" you're referring to the "deer fly" (which has a kind of orangey color).
They circle their victim repeatedly, frequently stopping to land on your head. Some professor made a sash for around your hat composed of blue flypaper. 'Said to be very effective.
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