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Naked Hiking Day!!! (mander.xyz)
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[–] 45 points 1 year ago (18 children)

Unless you're going all out with clothing-as-armor, naked is better.

Chiggers can't directly get a grip on your flesh, mouth parts too weak. They gotta back that ass into something to get started. Like your clothes.

Ticks are instantly observable because without clothes you can feel them tickle. In any case, you can see them before they lock on.

Mosquitoes? I got nothing.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I have had many ticks but never could I feel one of them walk around on me.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Most people seem to have a pretty bad sense of touch.

    During certain times of years you get a lot of single spider-silk threads flying in the air and I constantly walk into them. But almost no one else seems to notice them.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    People don’t notice them? I usually don’t see them and my brain immediately starts telling me something is weird on my arms.

    Always takes me way too long to figure it out because the first thoughts are always incredibly rational “what if i got bitten by a giant snake i didn’t notice?” And “where is the crawling bug?” Only then “oh, yeah, the thin spider web…”

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I recently have been bitten by quite a few ticks and can never seem to find them until days later. They are so fucking tiny, smaller than a grain of sand! Oh yeah just feel my legs? How do you tell the difference between a tiny scab from a thorn scratch or a tick then? Usually only find them once they have been there for a while and got bigger. Which isn't exactly ideal.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Every time I read or hear “chigger” it always sounds like a slur

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Well you put your pants into your boots so the ticks have to climb all the way to somewhere where they can get on your skin. At that point you might be at home already and can strip away your clothes and yeet them to the washer

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