The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #37960   Message #532088
Posted By: Mudlark
20-Aug-01 - 07:12 PM
Thread Name: BS: Insects in tents
Subject: RE: BS: Insects in tents
Not a pretty sight, the camel spider/wind scorpion. I don't have those (I HOPE) but I do have tarantulas all over the place, black widows and recluse spiders. But the worst bite I've ever had, am just getting over, in fact, was from an assassin bug, member of the cone nose family (NOT related to my own tribe, the big nose family). Very nasty bite, arm swelled alarmingly, ran a fever, the works....was glad I didn't hear until it had somewhat subsided, that it often puts people in intensive care.... Makes DLLs seem pretty tame, in comarison. Think the short broom idea the best...years ago when we did a lot of camping seems we found a broom scaled to tent size in a camping store....or maybe a toy store....

Happy camping!