Just look at this disgusting motherfucker. I don't care much about ticks, flies, even skeetos I tend to cope okay. But these slimy disgusting little foreskins make me wretch.
>>2717129and to make it all worse, I flicked 4 of them off me but didn't notice one had gotten into my sock. Bled like a motherfucker and 3 weeks later it's itchy as fuck.
>>2717129is that a wild garloid?
>>2717131it's a leech anon and they're fucking everywhere this year because of all the rain we've had
>>2717132Where? I have never seen one my whole life.
>>2717138NSW Australia.there are probably a hundred of them in this photo. they blend in amongst all the twigs and needles and hang onto low vegetation, literally just probing and waving until something passes by and they just latch on tenaciously. and they're so fucking gross.
Permithrin kills them on contact. Spray your footwear, headwear and outer garments.My friend failed to use permithrin when we backpacked Madagascar. We were trekking a forest when it started "raining." Turned out not to be water and instead it was hundreds of leeches dropping down from the trees seeking us. They annhilated themselves on me. My friend was covered with leeches including under his baseball cap where one had taken up residence and was had grown to the size of a large deli dill pickle. My friend fainted from the stress.Good times.
>>2717147fucking horrifying. I will have to pick up permethrin but I also think I should get a flammenwerfer
>>2717144I have only gotten them by playing in a creek in america. And they didn't bleed for two weeks or itch they just pulled off from between my toes.
>>2717154in the US they're aquatic, in Australia they're primarily land based. they live near water though and if it's wet, humid, murky, lush, there are leeches all over, at least in summer.
>>2717144I've never seen them as bad as this year. Flicked 24 of the cunts off boots, legs and arms over the course of a single <2h hike earlier this year. Twenty-fucking-four.And, like you, I missed one. Bloodstains all over my socks when I got home. Itching was gone so within 24h though, yours must've got infected or something.
>>2717157>24jesus christ that's a proper plague. and yeah it definitely got infected and I had to lance and drain it. it's fine now though, just a scar that's going away very slowly
>>2717156Fuck that I'm staying in NZ even if the wages are shit. I just be chilling in my comfy mossy never ending beech forest with literally nothing trying to bother me.
>>2717167lucky :<
>>2717168You can come just don't stack rocks
>>2717171>>2717173god fucking dammit anon>>2717175oh good that's one thing I don't do
>>2717144was just camping at jenolan state forest a few weeks ago, leeches everywhere. is it getting worse in NSW?
>>2717147Fuuuuuuuck that
>>2717167Is NZ as awesome as it sounds for going /out/?
>>2717147>including under his baseball cap where one had taken up residence and was had grown to the size of a large deli dill pickleYea the rainforest leeches in Madagascar are far smaller than the aquatic ones you see on TV/films. They wouldn't get anywhere near that big. Why lie?
>>2717292Ok we'll say it got as big as your dick then
>>2717302>seethes and proceeds to make his larp even less believablehave you even been to Madagascar?
>>2717132our water garloids are thick and juicy
>>2717129>>2717171>>2717405awww look at all those future engineers/doctors/astronautsthey dindu nuffin
>>2717144Yeah I fucking hate them, ticks are still worse but the itchiness you get from leaches does hang around for a while and they do somehow find ways onto your body you wouldn't expect after heavy rain.I use salt from pic related to get them off, this brand is good because it has the big hole in the cap that lets you dump a massive amount of salt on them instantly, they let go almost straight away when you do that vs little amounts.
>>2717405If you didnnt grow up putting theese guys on your calf, forearms as a child, did you ever even grow up?
>>2717962I use the same salt of course, although I've never used it against a leech. In my case I caught the bugger while I was still outside and popped it off recklessly instead :\
if you guys were lost and starving would you go for a walk through thick brush and harvest these little guys for protein? Remember you would be REALLY hungry.
>>2718423They are absolutely riddled with parasites and poisonous.
>>2718423>eating leeches What the fuck is wrong with you?
>>2717287American here. Yes, it is.
>>2718031The benefit of the salt is the leach will shrivel up and unclamp itself from you, when you remove them by force and rip them off from your skin their teeth or whatever it is they use to bite you can remain in the bite area and encourage infection.Although if you catch them early and they easily flick off it's probably alright.
Okay, i guess i don't need to leave Finland. I never want to encounter these creatures
>>2717416kek
>>2718633youse don't even have aquatic leeches in Finlan'? fuck that shit I'm moving there
>>2717209I think we just got too much rain this year and they flourished
Mantibe area.
>>2719895Jesus Christ that’s nightmare material. Also where is Mantibe exactly?
>>2719963Northeast Madagascar north of Antananarivo in the jungles where the lemurs prosper.Arrogant dude above notes the jungle leeches are tiny. True in some instances, but there are multiple types, and the big boys can engorge to the size of a deli pickle no joke. Been there, saw that you prick.
>>2719895Nooooo
>>2717287It's the best of both worlds, plenty of untouched nature but no dangerous animals.
BONUS POST:I was sweeping up my garden today and near my garden hose hook there was a dead huntsman hanging from a redback web º-º
>>2720634I was sweeping dead debris from my political gallery today and there was a live Huntsman hanging onto redneck webz. I let out a shriek and it scampered away.
>>2717987I've done a lot of wade fishing in rivers and creeks in the middle of nowhere and never seen leeches here :(
>>2720824they hang around in stagnant water and slow bends, you won't see them in running or proper open
>>2720906I did get a couple leeches on me the one time I went wade fishing around of Phoenix. it was in the middle of summer and the water was ice cold. I just assumed it was the water temperature. the water never gets that cold around here during the summer. water was moving about the same.
>>2721022well they are tenacious little fucks. in NH I never got one in the rivers but when you go downstream and find a slow moving little bend in the river with lots of silt and grass, leech city
>>2717130> Bled like a motherfucker and 3 weeks later it's itchy as fuck.he pozzed u
>>2717129B-But /pol/ and /x/ said that vaxxed blood killed leeches!!!1! Is Q wrong?1!!!
>>2721452now now anon, put on your critical thinking cap>leech bites healthy virile vaxxed man>leech invariably dies for its sin>leech bites weak, scurvy sickly unvaxxed boy>leech grows to the size of a walrusmakes sense to me
