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Old Jun 20, 2008 | 01:27 PM
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Herpes. Easily.
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Old Jun 20, 2008 | 04:30 PM
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this was at Lake Tahoe Nevada/California....fresh water(she didnt get in the water at all)
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Old Jun 21, 2008 | 12:57 PM
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Sand fleas it is.
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Old Jun 21, 2008 | 01:11 PM
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Originally Posted by sillyboybmxer,Jun 20 2008, 04:30 PM
this was at Lake Tahoe Nevada/California....fresh water(she didnt get in the water at all)
There are no sand fleas there or house spiders. It could have been a horse fly, or deer fly, but I can't think of anything else but black widows up there, and they like cover.

Doesn't look like a BW regardless. It looks diffuse, and chance she was in the poison oak? Are there smallish blisters/
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Old Jun 21, 2008 | 07:04 PM
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If it was either of those Flies, she would have known when it bit her. Not only do Horsefly/ Deerfly bites hurt, but there is an agent in the Flies saliva, which causes the blood not to coagulate.

Like I said, Sand Fleas.
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Old Jun 21, 2008 | 08:29 PM
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kinda looks like a hickey...you just posted this to show off, didn't you??

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Old Jun 21, 2008 | 09:34 PM
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we are still in the dark about what it was,....no initial sting, just the bite appearing afterwards,..kinda weird, but its healing up so i guess she gets to keep the leg
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Old Jun 22, 2008 | 07:41 AM
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Come to think about it, it may not be a bite at all. It may just be the skin reacting to something it touched.
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Old Jun 22, 2008 | 01:40 PM
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Originally Posted by Terror,Jun 21 2008, 07:04 PM
If it was either of those Flies, she would have known when it bit her. Not only do Horsefly/ Deerfly bites hurt, but there is an agent in the Flies saliva, which causes the blood not to coagulate.

Like I said, Sand Fleas.
OK wise guy, which genus of sand fleas lives at Tahoe? Oh yea.
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Old Jun 22, 2008 | 03:31 PM
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Originally Posted by INTJ,Jun 22 2008, 03:40 PM
OK wise guy, which genus of sand fleas lives at Tahoe? Oh yea.
I guess I missed the part where it said it was in Tahoe (My bad). This bite, was not caused by a Sand Flea or Mole Crab. It looks nothing like the bites I have seen.

That's why I later stated, this is probably just a rash.
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