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We aint got these in the NORTH!!! - 5/13/2004 8:58:58 PM    tazmainiendigger Posts: 973 Joined: 11/21/2003 From: State O Maine Status: offline I just got back from a few days stay in Georgia... I thought the black flies & ticks were bad here! These little bugger's and big ole snakes are just a crawling down there lol... I gave this little fellow a ride back home to Maine on the plane! Happy Digging! Taz Attachment (1) Post #: 1

RE: We aint got these in the NORTH!!! - 5/13/2004 9:32:02 PM    IRISH   Posts: 1238 Joined: 11/23/2002 From: cockatoo Australia Status: offline We get a few of them (lot's in some places) here but that one looks a fair bit bigger than our ones, nice of you to give him (or her) a free trip to Maine . That is a good looking ink it's sitting on there. (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 2

RE: We aint got these in the NORTH!!! - 5/13/2004 9:34:38 PM    tazmainiendigger Posts: 973 Joined: 11/21/2003 From: State O Maine Status: offline Yes it is and thanks! Some chap sent that to me for down under! (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 3

RE: We aint got these in the NORTH!!! - 5/13/2004 9:35:43 PM    tazmainiendigger Posts: 973 Joined: 11/21/2003 From: State O Maine Status: offline From down under.... (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 4

RE: We aint got these in the NORTH!!! - 5/13/2004 11:39:36 PM    diginit   Posts: 662 Joined: 4/7/2004 From: California Status: offline We have those in California,But ours are orange or golden in color.Great pets. Just don't make them mad. (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 5

RE: We aint got these in the NORTH!!! - 5/14/2004 7:11:45 AM    Maine Digger   Posts: 823 Joined: 2/4/2004 From: Augusta, Maine Status: offline What Taz didn't tell you all is that creature is just one of Maine's Black Flies in it's larva stage, you should see the adults!!!! _____________________________ Norm Miller (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 6

RE: We aint got these in the NORTH!!! - 5/14/2004 7:26:00 AM    luvtodig   Posts: 88 Joined: 4/30/2004 From: Southern Illinois Status: offline LOL Norm!! We had those in Arizona, they kept trying to swim in the pool..that is the only ones I saw..thank goodness I am told that the black flies here will take out a chunk of skin..yikes! I can hardly wait for that.. _____________________________ Susanne (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 7

RE: We aint got these in the NORTH!!! - 5/15/2004 5:57:57 AM    Kim   Posts: 199 Joined: 2/25/2004 Status: offline Hi all Well, thank goodness I don't unearth such beastly creatures here in Oz, I saw a snake skin today and the scales were huge (King Brown I'd say) so I was very careful. When you are wearing headphones you tend to see before you hear. Norm, I can't wait to see a pick of one with wings. Hmm! you didn't send a box of black flies, did you? lol. For everybody else: Norm has sent a package to me with unknown contents, can't wait to see what is in it. Kim (in reply to luvtodig) Post #: 8

RE: We aint got these in the NORTH!!! - 5/16/2004 6:00:03 AM    leebran20 Posts: 84 Joined: 2/18/2004 From: Honolulu, Hawaii Status: offline What exactly are these black flies like? They bite or just swarm you without end? We have mosquitoes here that do both -- and two years back we had a dengue outbreak which greatly limited the places I was willing to go dig -- but at least the 100 percent Deet works on them, which I heard it doesn't with the flies. We don't have snakes either -- at least we're not supposed to -- but we do have centipedes, and quite a bit of them when I dig the types of mountain dumps I usually do. Can usually count on having to try to catch about five or six of them during a reg. dig and throwing them as far as possible with the shovel. A digger friend I met over the Net -- some of you may know him from Scott's Privy Page, a great site -- came to vacation and dig over on Kauai a couple years back, and though he has to deal with snakes at home in Michigan, I couldn't tell him enough to come anywhere near easing his mind about the 'pedes. I do hate them too. Brandon < Message edited by leebran20 -- 5/16/2004 6:00:33 AM > (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 9

RE: We aint got these in the NORTH!!! - 5/16/2004 6:44:44 PM    tazmainiendigger Posts: 973 Joined: 11/21/2003 From: State O Maine Status: offline This scorpion's bark is worse then his bite, lol it is only like a bee sting. From what I saw of the behavior in the wild they would rather run away... The problem is they come in the house and hide in dark places like shoes or slippers! Ahhhhh thats when they get ya! Happy digg'n Taz (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 10

RE: We aint got these in the NORTH!!! - 5/17/2004 10:29:43 PM    scduckett   Posts: 21 Joined: 5/15/2004 From: Montgomery, AL Status: offline Taz, that's just one of our "littler" pests down here in the South. Did you meet the skeeters too? What I'm worried about meeting are the rattlers. Opp, AL home of the rattlesnake rodeo is about 80 miles from here, but those rattlers come from all over middle Alabama. And alot of the homesteads I want to explore look like home for these guys! Didn't even think about the scorpions. Oh, and the cow ants. BIG furry red and black ants that they say can kill a cow!!. Mmmm...let's think about this diggin' business...maybe winter would be a good time to start?? (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 11

RE: We aint got these in the NORTH!!! - 5/17/2004 11:26:23 PM    okiedog   Posts: 11 Joined: 3/8/2004 From: madill,okla. Status: offline i'll tell you one thing from repeated experience scropian bites do hurt!! i would take a bee sting any day over these little monsters. after the swelling goes down and the pain medicine kicks in it is tolerable however!! you better kill that thing and search for more, i moved a pile of bricks to our new home and started a new batch of these darlings where there had never been a problem before. good luck with your new pet (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 12

RE: We aint got these in the NORTH!!! - 5/23/2004 7:54:42 AM    tazmainiendigger Posts: 973 Joined: 11/21/2003 From: State O Maine Status: offline Okiedog, this little guy never made it on the plane alive! It is bad enough flying never mind worrying if that thing is gonna excape from the overhead luggage comparment lol. That creature now resides in a better place! Good Digg'n Taz Attachment (1) (in reply to tazmainiendigger) Post #: 13

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