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After four days, this tabano bite is still going strong, deep pain, intense itching, constant weeping of fluid.
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Tabano is what we call them here. Elsewhere these flies are called deer flies, horse flies, and doctor flies. This class of insect appears in various sizes and forms but they all have the same method of biting. Unlike a mosquito that inserts a thin probe to extract blood and does relatively little physical damage, tabanids have serrated knives that they use to slash the skin open so it bleeds. A large horse fly can slash open an area two inches in diameter and do a lot of damage.
Tabanids are easily recognized by their body shape and especially by the shape of the head and eyes. The "head" of the insect looks like one giant eye with little or no visible division between the left and right eyes. The mouth parts are also distinctive and look like a thick sharp pointed wedge projecting downwards.
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On her 20th birthday, I borrowed her Canon and took this picture of her and her cat.
Models are my lovely friend ~sensualDeath @ deviantART.com and the cat Saga.
The Speed river that goes through Riverside Park in Guelph, ON always makes for good pictures no matter the weather.
I've taken hundreds of the same photo over this bridge.
This is for a winter scene project :)
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Rhipicephalus Sanguineus (Brown Dog Tick)
Location - Brisbane Australia
Pictured here is a young Rhipicephalus, or possibly a small adult male... But Im leaning more towards nymph seeing as he was only 2mm (And barely)
I was planning on letting him gorge, and taking progress shots ! But, alas, ticks are slow feeding creatures that can go un-noticed for days or weeks, taking up to 10 days to become fully engorged.
And once noticed, they are quite noticeable !
(Think when you watch a mosquito bite compared to when they sneak one)
Itchiness and a dull pain where the only symptoms i felt, and im not sure how much of it was my own mind's making !
Nevertheless, my experiment plans where thwarted when my partner noticed the little parasite, and quickly and skillfully removed him whilst 'taking a look' !
Vacation aftermath: chigger bites on Xy's back. She had over fifty bites. I had something like 15, mostly on my ankles. Thanks, Indiana!
Update: As of August 2009 this is my most viewed photo. Later that month, this became my first photo to have scored more than 10,000 views.
Update: Since this photo gets so much traffic, I can only assume folks might be interested in the hot water treatment. It works for poison ivy, fire ant stings and — yes chigger bites.
Something crawled into bed with me last night and gave me a souvenir.
This is the first time I have ever gotten a blister from a bug bite. It doesn't itch that much. I just hope it doesn't get bigger or scar.
Freaking Korean bugs...
This is where he was latched on to me. Can you see his head? Me neither but i know its there because it wasn't attached to his own body!
Captured at Mysore Zoo (officially The Sri Chamarajendra Zoological Gardens ).
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it is really hard to take a clear picture of the back of ones arm. There is a faint dot in the middle and a circle around it making it a 'bulls eye" pattern. No itch, and it's not raised up. My mom, stepmom, and dad all pointed this out to me at different times. I didn't even know I had it and no idea what this is from either. Everyone says tick bite or ringworm.
EDIT 7/3/08 : It is definitely a tick bite. I tested positive for lyme disease and went through a 3 week course of Doxycyclin. Supposedly that's all I have to do. If I'd taken a photo sooner, it would have been a clearer bullseye.