07-27-2007, 04:53 AM
Noel,
I went on a super-jungle-hike this week and thought I just had mosquito bites my legs but they didn't go away. Turns out I went through a bunch of thimbleberry (and also some cane grass) which left some irritating thorns and scratches. Not that you wouldn't know the difference...but it itched and was irritating just the way a bug bite is - so it took me a while to figure it out. One other thought...the stinging nettle caterpillar loves to eat monocots like grasses and honohono and there are more of them in the summer. Maybe you came in contact with one of those awful buggahs when you were weeding - check out this link.
http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/haraa/docume...dfold1.pdf
Hope you feel better!
Mitzi
Uluhe Design
Native Landscape Design
uluhedesign@yahoo.com
I went on a super-jungle-hike this week and thought I just had mosquito bites my legs but they didn't go away. Turns out I went through a bunch of thimbleberry (and also some cane grass) which left some irritating thorns and scratches. Not that you wouldn't know the difference...but it itched and was irritating just the way a bug bite is - so it took me a while to figure it out. One other thought...the stinging nettle caterpillar loves to eat monocots like grasses and honohono and there are more of them in the summer. Maybe you came in contact with one of those awful buggahs when you were weeding - check out this link.
http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/haraa/docume...dfold1.pdf
Hope you feel better!
Mitzi
Uluhe Design
Native Landscape Design
uluhedesign@yahoo.com
Uluhe Design
Native Landscape Design
uluhedesign@yahoo.com
Native Landscape Design
uluhedesign@yahoo.com