Your method makes me think of my youth, and also, ticks, chiggers, copperheads, wasps, hornets, bumble bees, poison ivy rash, and other things that I got impatient with in Missouri.
I one time went down a ravine to check out a small wooded area like this and walked through about 40 yards of crown vetch to get down to the woods. I checked it out, came back up but then got busy for the rest of the afternoon. That night I had about 75 chigger bites from that crown vetch. Just the worst time for their life cycle and I was in misery for about a week.
Bump for later
Only a week?!
I used my seattle sensibilities when I first moved here. I was in shorts and a t-shirt weedeating the stuff between the field and the woods and two weeks later had to go to the doctor. He looked at my legs and said, “Looks like we got a bug AND plant thing going on here.
I’ve since learned how to manage it, and it’s ok now that I know what to do.
And I spent the whole day yesterday clearing in blistering and humid heat, no problem. Bug spray, sun screen, plenty of water, and of most importance, a head band to keep the sweat out of my face. I actually enjoyed it.
“Your method makes me think of my youth, and also, ticks, chiggers, copperheads, wasps, hornets, bumble bees, poison ivy rash, and other things that I got impatient with in Missouri.”
The Piedmont of the Carolinas is like that ... one reason I moved to Colorado ...