all you cowboy campers, tarp people, need to google “kissing bugs”. I have found several this year. " I sleep enclosed. The critters are far more common than you realize.
deadman
Kissing bugs - Pacific Crest Trail
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I hiked from Morino to hwy 74 this year.(section hiker PCT) I saw two bugs different locations at the entrance of my tent. My wife and I also did a green rivertrip in Utah and encounterd on on tent netting. I have sen thembefor but never made the connection.
deadman
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I hadn’t heard that term in a very long time, since I was a kid in California. Perhaps they’re not as common in the South as out West (not that the South needs another bug!).
I don’t remember ever seeing one, because they’d ‘kiss’ at night and the next morning the victim woke up with a red, swollen, & very itchy eyelid. The inflammation made it slightly painful, but we didn’t get to stay out of school or anything because of it :oh
Wild Hare
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I was wondering if any one on here has heard of the police looking for a guy who is wanted for murder in another state and they believe he is on or near the at in erwinn tennessee. I saw this bulletin at the local Mount Rogers outfitters in Damascus Va and just wanted to know if any one else had heard about this.
Tigger
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I don’t want to alarm anyone but kissing bugs are carriers of chagas disease, which can be very serious, even deadly! I don’t know if this is common knowledge on the west coast or not but most of us here in the east have never encountered them.
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