https://www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/body-painting-protects-against-bloodsucking-insects

Now I woulda thought caking on mud, paint whatever would be worth a shot. No stripes, just all over. Maybe some mob do do that.
Dunno about any indigionous insect repellant
lotions but I’d be amazed if they wernt developed. I was actually wondering about traditional tick medicine in Australia a few months ago and looked it up but found zilch.
Was thinking some sort of topical poison and some sort of tweezer tool. And maybe some antihistamine sorta thing.

Whilst searching for the right spot to put this,
an old baseball/softball? match report mentioned Greg covered in paint and I’m including a link for him to reminisce.

https://birdfreak.com/i-and-the-bird-103-take-me-out-to-the-ballgame/

Oddly enough that has only happened once. I’m a herper and my favorite thing to do is to roll over logs looking for snakes so I like to think I have an eye for such things. Nevertheless I had been sitting on a small log in Tennessee for the better part of an hour when I looked between my legs to discover a copperhead with its head cocked so as to best evaluate the infrared signature of my testicles. It had to have been there the whole time just tucked under the edge of the log.

Snakes I can take, but back in Belize what bothers me are the Eurycotis roaches which are the size of a breadbox(thus slightly larger than the ones here in north Florida). Yes, I know they are perfectly harmless, as are the giant katydids, but what does that have to do with anything? I fear them even more than the enormous black scorpions and foot long centipedes. The smell of the Eurycotis is so loathsome that I cannot bear to be in the same room with someone eating liquorice. Their spiny legs are four inches long and I can hear their individual footsteps in the night as they come to clean my teeth while I snore with open mouth. You might think that is the product of a fevered imagination, but one time my ex wife actually pulled one of those huge spiny legs out of her butt! Relative to all that I find the Amblypygiids to be positively cute!

All of this I learned due to my inability to sit cross legged on the ground, but I must be a slow learned cuz I’m headed back to Laos for more fun!

Well, maybe you have a point about leaning on things, but the conversation is not subject to interpretation. This is a person I knew quite well for years, was related to, and who often told the same stories again and again, so I’m pretty sure I got the original message right!

Some people can sit on the ground and some can’t. .. and a log to sit on or lean against.

I’d be careful about the log, there’s probably a snake under it!

Much worse is the situation in Thailand, Laos, and elsewhere where sitting on the floor is considered the norm

Tell me about it. I’m not a big sitter-on-the-floorer either and I had a hard time in that region.

In remote villages you are expected to sit Buddha style for hours during welcoming ceremonies

That would be especially impossible for me now since that time my leg almost fell off.

Clicking now.

An appropriate typo, since some parts of Provence (especially swamp-ish Camargue) get infested with swarms of mosquitoes and midges as soon as summer sets in.