Not My Face!
The mosquitos in East Nashville are ruthless. You cannot go outside for 15 minutes without protective gear on. Think beekeeper.
I don't know what happens to those mosquitos as they cross the Cumberland River, but holy fuck, are they hungry. I went outside to play with my dog this morning, and she was interested in playing catch for maybe ten minutes. I came back inside to discover a giant mosquito bite right on my face. On my right cheek. And it itches like crazy. It looks like an enormous whitehead with a red ring around it.
I also got one on the top of my foot and on the back of my arm.
In related news, West Nile virus was discovered in more mosquitos near the Cumberland River.
UPDATE: There are three more bites on my ankles that I didn't know about at the time I wrote this post. They itch.
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[this is teh suck], just put a big blob of calamine lotion on the bite on your face, then there's no denying it's a bug bite.
I'm so cool now. Thanks Brittney.
I've got one of thos "Buzz Off" hats that has pyrethrine embeded in the fabric in some weird nanotech way. Dunno if it actually works that well as there are hardly any mosquitos this side of the Cascades.
hey isn't this (http://www.girlsrockcamp.org/) something you wrote about a long time ago? saw it on mefi.
Yeah, there is one here in Nashville. It's about 4 years old now. I wrote about it the first year it started. The lead singer of Be Your Own Pet went to the rock camp when I covered it.
I live in Nashvegas too and Mosquitoes have started their campaign to destroy my sanity over the last 2 weeks.
Chiggers have allied with them.
Bastards they are!! All of them!!