I was told by my friend that his grandma many moons ago moistened snuff and put it on her bites, weighted for it to dry and then flaked it off (repeat as necessary) and it works! was just wondering if anybody else has tried this? or anything else with snuff besides the obvious?
Burdock cures stinging nettle contact. I hate to waste my precious snuff but if there no burdock I will try snuff in a pinch. I use aloe plant for bites, sunburn, and other skin irritants. dandelion stems, plantain herb, wild garlic and onions. are also very available remedies. Cured Tobacco in any medium will work snuff, snus ,dip, chewing, cigarette, cigar and pipe. The biting insects usually stay away because of the smoking and toxicity of the tobacco in my blood. Just another good reason to consume tobacco products.
somne said this about bug bites a while ago and that quite a few people had grandparents or parents that used to do it for them, but now everyone figured it was a myth with only placebo value.
The big secret that companies that make goo to ease mozzie and bug bites dont want you to know is…drumroll…plain old vinegar! Fast and very effective. Dab some on and try it. Note, vinegar is for bug bites; not sunburn or weird rashes that i dont want to know how innocently you got.
Rubbing alcohol does the trick as well.
I’am starting to think that anything put on a bug bite will help anything but clothe it seems.
As does ammonia - ph I suspect being the common factor.
Although I’ve not tried it out on myself since the last time bites got discussed here, I’ve put snuff on a few other people and none were very impressed. It looks like one of those old-people’s myth. Like bumble-bees not stinging, hard work not hurting and virtue, of all things, being its own reward.
And bass players not getting laid that’s an old person myth too.
Snuff goes on bee stings, witch hazel on bug bites. It won’t work the other way around. Bumble bees DO sting. Carpenter bees do not. The carpenters look sorty of bumbly, but bigger, so that might be the confusion. Also drone honey bees do not sting.
@Xander,Carpenter Bee males can sting, they don’t very often as they are much more interested in mating. The females do not have stingers, but can deliver a really painful bite. You can tell them apart because the females are generally going from flowers to the burrow in a hurried straight line and the males are just hanging around waiting to mate. Sorry, 10 years in the pest control biz adds really odd information to ones brain.
The male Carpenter Bee mantra must bee: Make love, not sore.
@bigmick Thanks for the additional info. I have zillions of these here, epecially in spring. I used to whack them with a shovel as a kid. Now I don’t bother any attempt to control or eradicate. They’re quite beneficial to the garden even if they are a bit destructive. @cstokes4 *groan*
@Xander: Were the puns that bad? 8-}
Wtf? how’d you reply so fast? Are you sitting there waiting for me?
Barnabas is always sitting and waiting >:)
he’s also really good at recovery from flubbing his lines.
@Xander, I used a tennis racket on them as a kid. Now was long as they aren’t tearing up anything important I don’t bother them much.
“bzzzzzzzzzzz, whap, sproinnnng!..thunk”
I’m coming a bit late here but males do not sting. The stinger is an evolved ovipositor (organ certain insects use to lay eggs), only females have ovipositors therefore only females have stingers. Ants, bees, wasps ect. only the females workers have stingers, the male drones do not.