I walked across my wife's university campus the other day, carrying my 3 year old daughter on my shoulders. Passing a garden bed near a car park, my daughter says "Look, Daddy, a yucky crepe myrtle!". And she was spot on.
My Grandparents lived in Mossy Head, near Crestview and have quite a bit of acreage left untouched. We still have about 40 acres in the family. I remember playing in the ravines and finding springs, swimming in Long creek and sunning on the dunes and hiking up the creek and finding little shallow wet areas in these openings that looked like you entered another world. I also loved finding really cool sand “canyons” we would play for hours in. Northwest Florida is so so so magical. The ravines are really special.
Sitting alone in my home (for the time-being), watching this video, marvelling at the LENGTH of the needles on those pine trees, when suddenly - _A VOICE_ suddenly said, & rather loudly, *"HOW BEAUTIFUL!"* I actually jumped a little, then realized that it was *_MY_** voice,* & I'd just laid eyes on the *_Erythrina herbacea_* plant. *_WOW,_** SUCH BEAUTIFUL, RED, TUBULAR FLOWERS!* Thank you for your lovely, informative, and stunning videos, Tony! Each time I watch another video I'm even _MORE_ impressed by your knowledge than I was the previous time I watched. I hope you will keep making these for a long, long time, at least until either I "drop off this mortal coil," or descend into the indifference of senility! (As senility doesn't appear to be too rampant in my lineage - after all, my paternal grandmother, Nana, "only" made it to 97.5 years before opting to pass away rather than undergo a life-saving abdominal surgery - I'll probably end up with that "dropping off the mortal coil" option. Whatever a "coil" may be...? 🤪) (((Hugs))) from (STILL intermittently sunny) Northern California (Redding)! 🖖 LL&P!
@@wingdingdmetrius8025 Most normal people have no idea what that means. I'm a white male veteran who's unfortunately exposed to a lot of those groups tangentially based on some of my hobbies, and I had no idea what it was for years. Nothing like being in a gun shop and the owner looking around before starting to dog whistle.
Florida keeps getting warmer and hotter. 40 years ago our winters were so much cooler. Many more high 20s to freezing Temps. Now u might get 1 or 2 days in the high 30s. Central to east.
Love these Florida vids. Death cult just cleared out some of the last woods near me, no doubt for some development. But there's a lot of sandy shits I can walk now, thinking about all the wildlife that previously inhabited the area and looking for cool plants. Thanks Joey.
The death cult is increasing their feeding frenzy all over the southeast. Why no one connects having too many kids and just mowing yards and commuter communities is beyond me...I was a die hard capitalist earlier in my life now I'm the opposite...take utilitarian and then ecology and you get what I am...very upset with what homo "colossus" has done to the world.
I moved into my house 8 years ago and in that time span they cleared several acres for a gigantic Flying J truck stop, a dollar store, 4 apt complexes, and a neighborhood. I'm trying to get neighbors to at least plant some native stuff to offset the destruction by about 1%.
Fascinating! I live in coastal Queensland, Australia - and if I squint my eyes, the landscape here reminds me of home. Our equivalent of this pine-oak association is _Callitris_ and _Banksia._ No wonder our _Casuarina_ have become such an environmental weed problem in Florida, it looks like they'd feel right at home. Even the forb layer in this pine-oak forest has parallels in our local vegetation.
PS: our chiggers are sandflies. Parallel evolution at the species level is interesting enough, but parallel evolution at the ecosystem level is mind-blowing.
@@Ice_Karma But evolution is built on _random events_ shaped by selection pressure, and I'd have thought "there's more than one way to climb a tree". Clearly there are optimal solutions even at the ecological level. I'm genuinely curious as to what sandy scrub has to do with a preponderance of blood-sucking insects?
Gonna need "Smokey the Bear is an Asshole" shirts asap 💯 thanks for being real and making ecology interesting! Science community does need to loosen up and enjoy the role they're in. Glad to see I'm not the only one trying to change the "boring" science narrative. This shit is too much fun to be so serious. Appreciate you 🙏
Calamine lotion for the chiggers. Unlike mosquitos calamine works for these. I've gotten hit so bad my feat swelled and couldn't wear shoes. You've got some mature bites there. Maybe a soak and then try the calamine. You should see if you can get it by the gallon. I've applied coconut oil as well. They love me. My routine is shower asap with tea tree castile. Scrub that in. Rinse. After drying skin calamine. Maybe coconut spot application and apply calamine. Reply if itchy. Antihistamines.
As someone in the Midwest who used to drive for a literal hour with basically all corn and the occasional town. It's terrible. There was a refinery for ethanol that added it to gas along the way. Wasn't all bad tho. There were a few bald eagles along the way and hundreds of wind turbines
The scrub Clinopodium are bangers, really need to find a source for C. dentatum but I've been growing the near endemic C. coccineum in a 3 gal for years with no care over a garden bed (my water table is too high for in-ground) with their tiny leaves they're like natural bonsai that don't need watering. They're really adaptable like you said. I think in habitat it's mostly a yellow sand specialist but it does fine in draining potting mix or mine I just used local gray sandy loam. So many cool plants in the scrub habitats here, thanks for sharing them!
Nice! When I went down to Florida I saw that milkweed down there; didn't even know it was different from normal milkweed back then I also recall seeing some super spiky seed pods that punctured through the bottom of my sandals with surprising ease and latched onto my socks too like burs
I hear that savannah appeals to us - like we make our parks look like that with lawns dotted with trees - because that’s a collective memory out-of-Africa thing. Believe it? Thorax. Forget all the other bee parts. Thorax.
That sandhill rosemary has a fantastic looking flower on it. Florida people are lucky to have it We don't really have poison ivy down here in shitsville, but the mango family overall isn't a real easy one to live with. Even the regular orchard mango trees have a nasty 'sap surprise' for the unwary
I've noticed your editing style is kinda like an 80's vhs recording trying to cut mouthy Uncle Herman out before he says something not appropriate for the kids. Also a bit like the Mr. Plinckett bits on Red Letter Media...some of the most perfect editing and comedic timing. Your comedic timing is so natural. Thanks for spending a healthy amount of time at the panhandle. I found st George island to be so otherworldly with the false rosemary and all kinds of cool polygala right next to the clear waters of the slow moving gulf. And for camping the night sky is so clear out there.
A dilemma i experienced quite often when i would collect monarch eggs and caterpillars from milkweeds about to be mowed, trying to tell the difference between an egg and a dried drop of sap...
Here, we have a bad way of thinking fires, too much fear of the people ( i think) with this videos of Joey i became aware of the importance of the fires, thanks🙂...the ticks are awful😱... when i go to Florida, after i have to think how to "escape" the ticks😅
Up here on the North East coast we have a landscape feature like that ravine that we call a Frost Bottom. So called because the temperature differential between the bottom and the surrounding landscape is extreme. Some only have a few frost free mornings per year. I wonder if there's a similar temperature differential in those ones down there.
Lmao the Hercules beetle made me think of how those that dwell in the hell on earth called Florida will say a palomino bug isn't a roach..........lol.......right.....
Ahhh, the chiggers... I REALLY HATE those little buggers... Since you've tried everything, I'm assuming you've already crossed the "sulfer in a sock" off your list? If not, maybe give this a try: ▪︎1st - you'll need a sock that has a good length of "leg" portion on it. So, no footies! 2nd - you'll need sulfer powder. Just straight sulfer powder. Nothing fancy. ▪︎Pour between 1 cup & ½ cup of sulfer powder into an old sock so you end up with a nice size ball shape of sulfer powder in there. ▪︎At the very least, a ping ping ball size amount, and less than a tennis ball size amount. ▪︎AND- the sulfer HAS to be powder. ▪︎The amount in the sock doesn't really matter. ▪︎Just put however much fits in half the foot part of the sock, and you can still tie a knot in the leg part. ▪︎Filling half of the foot with powder, and having a longer leg portion, allows for better motion of "the bouncing" of the sulfer ball along your person. ▪︎Tie a knot in the sock, just around the ankle spot I guess. ▪︎The bouncing makes the powder poof out in a fine mist, and evenly distrubutes it over yourself. Which is another reason for doing this outside, or at least in the garage. Plus, you're not wasting the sulfer powder, or more importantly, it's just much better coverage than trying to pour the powder on yourself. ▪︎Refill the sock when necessary. To apply- ▪︎When fully dressed, & hopefully when you're entering tick & chigger territory, your pants are tucked into the socks you're wearing, which does help keep them off your skin a little bit. I mean, you WILL look dumb! No doubt about THAT!! But who cares if it keeps the chiggers off ya! (hashtag - chiggers are THE WORST!) ▪︎ If you're wearing boots- apply the sulfer power to your lower pant leg, & socks, ▪︎then put your boots on, ▪︎again tucking your pants inside the boots! ▪︎ Apply the sulfer powder to all outer surfaces of the boots. ▪︎ Continue to bounce the sulfer sock up your legs. I've never known anyone to need it applied higher than what pants cover. But then, I've still not seen everything - yet. To recap: Go outside & holding the sock above the knot, bounce the sulfer sock all over your shoes, socks, and up your pant legs. Make SURE to cover each and every square inch of yourself!! Even when wearing shorts, bounce the sulfer all over your bare legs, and up & over your shorts. (Altho, I do not advise wearing shorts...) When wearing long pants, we usually stopped applying sulfer just over the knee, but you can go higher, it all depends on the terrain you're exploring. I used to do this for my young kids when they wanted to go exploring in the fields behind our house. (In Texas = most wild places have chiggers) And it worked every time. This method DID keep all chiggers off of them. (The ONLY thing worse than chiggers on me, is chiggers on my small children!!) Heaven help us if that step was forgotten!! I even had a friend (a grown man) who didn't do the sulfer bounce when he went out exploring behind our house. (He just wouldn't listen.) That night he ended up in the hospital because of the enormous amounts of chigger bites on, & around, his balls!! He said not only were his balls VERY swollen, but they were bruised - black n blue, from the high number of bites! I just took his word for it. That was a learning experience he'll NEVER forget!! And apparently I'm not forgetting it either! I felt really bad for him...
It's more than that. Golds Head SP. Clermont area as well. Black creek ravines. Ravines SP in Palatka. Also there's a high elevation spot of SFL near Jupiter and Jensen.
Apologies for my ignorance, but what is the "death cult"? I love your videos: you're incredibly knowledgeable, and I hope this doesn't offend you, but it's so much fun, listening to you talk botany in your Chicago accent! (I'm not going to guess which part, but I'd like to know... and I kinda noticed in your previous video that it comes and goes...) [Edited: wrong accent.]
Wow, everything really is bigger in Texas! Maybe not, but everything does tend to grow smaller in Florida, culminating in island dwarfism like the Key deer is known for.
my man, youve gotta use gaiters and long pants when you go out in the swamp! the picaridin and deet can only do so much, nothing beats a physical barrier to protect your ankles
I heard (on Clints Reptiles spider phylogeny vid) there there is an enormous number of mites(and I'm guessing therefore chiggers) that remain undescribed. This made me think, ah ha that is why I can't find very much information on them. Chiggers keep me from going to certain otherwise nice wildlife areas and I wish there was more research on them.
Against chiggers I wear gaiters than come down well over my boot laces, held down with an elastic that goes under my instep. They look like elongated spats. Your ankle looked so painful. Hope it healed up fast.
Try a 60% Olive oil, 40% THC Oil ( I used decarbed Diamonds and sauce) rub, not many bugs seemed to like that, had a swarm of mosquitos around me and had none land on me. Found this out by accident, i use it as a muscle rub
I grewup in Sarasota/Paradise and Kiss that goodbye. They have any ground left that isnt houses now? Pasture,Oranges ,celery but i think now just houses. I say visit but dont stay long. Minnesnowda is better for beauty than there. I don't think I would get in water after dumping.
Did I say this before? Can’t remember. Anyway, did you know milkweed such as grows in Upper Canada where I was raised is edible? Yes, of course Monarch butterfly larva thrive on the foliage, but I’m talking the immature clusters of flower buds. Yes, that’s right: steamed and served with butter, salt and pepper it’s divine, simply divine. Check it out!
Joey! Your ankles dude! Spray all my plowing-around insect bites with 70% isopropyl then coat with Benadryl cream. If not I scratch until they become sores. Especially my fingers. Please don't let that $&
I walked across my wife's university campus the other day, carrying my 3 year old daughter on my shoulders. Passing a garden bed near a car park, my daughter says "Look, Daddy, a yucky crepe myrtle!". And she was spot on.
You sir, are a phenomenal father.
Nice, Kids are amazing sponges for information if you actually provide it to them. Hopefully she didn't follow with "what the ** ** is it doing?"
Nice.
@@mrln247 until she’s an adult then she can also say with us all “how TF are you doing that..???”🤣😭
I had a distinct image in my head of the "f"+!king goat" kid, children are funny.
Rip Joey's ankles. All gave some, some gave all
Saw you and Al on the news. Nice job infiltrating the squares.
No kidding? Chicago station?
@@katiekane5247 WGN
Shhh. They dont know how good a job they just did. Dont jinx it.
Lilly has a cool job! At least until she calls her boss "cock boy" 😂
I'm sure having you along has spiced up a usually quiet survey.
"I'm going to walk the sandy sheets, cawk boy" I was 💀
My boss is a petite and sassy British woman with a great sense of humor, so I don’t think she’ll mind. 🤗
My Grandparents lived in Mossy Head, near Crestview and have quite a bit of acreage left untouched. We still have about 40 acres in the family. I remember playing in the ravines and finding springs, swimming in Long creek and sunning on the dunes and hiking up the creek and finding little shallow wet areas in these openings that looked like you entered another world. I also loved finding really cool sand “canyons” we would play for hours in. Northwest Florida is so so so magical. The ravines are really special.
Sitting alone in my home (for the time-being), watching this video, marvelling at the LENGTH of the needles on those pine trees, when suddenly - _A VOICE_ suddenly said, & rather loudly, *"HOW BEAUTIFUL!"* I actually jumped a little, then realized that it was *_MY_** voice,* & I'd just laid eyes on the *_Erythrina herbacea_* plant. *_WOW,_** SUCH BEAUTIFUL, RED, TUBULAR FLOWERS!*
Thank you for your lovely, informative, and stunning videos, Tony! Each time I watch another video I'm even _MORE_ impressed by your knowledge than I was the previous time I watched. I hope you will keep making these for a long, long time, at least until either I "drop off this mortal coil," or descend into the indifference of senility! (As senility doesn't appear to be too rampant in my lineage - after all, my paternal grandmother, Nana, "only" made it to 97.5 years before opting to pass away rather than undergo a life-saving abdominal surgery - I'll probably end up with that "dropping off the mortal coil" option. Whatever a "coil" may be...? 🤪)
(((Hugs))) from (STILL intermittently sunny) Northern California (Redding)! 🖖 LL&P!
triple parentheses oops
@@wingdingdmetrius8025 Most normal people have no idea what that means. I'm a white male veteran who's unfortunately exposed to a lot of those groups tangentially based on some of my hobbies, and I had no idea what it was for years.
Nothing like being in a gun shop and the owner looking around before starting to dog whistle.
@@steventatlock5443 Im aware. it's a funny feaux pax. clearly didn't mean it
Florida keeps getting warmer and hotter. 40 years ago our winters were so much cooler. Many more high 20s to freezing Temps. Now u might get 1 or 2 days in the high 30s. Central to east.
You shamed the nectar robbing bee into pollinating. Nice job. I never noticed the channel master has an inch scale on the left hand second finger.
Love these Florida vids. Death cult just cleared out some of the last woods near me, no doubt for some development. But there's a lot of sandy shits I can walk now, thinking about all the wildlife that previously inhabited the area and looking for cool plants. Thanks Joey.
The death cult is increasing their feeding frenzy all over the southeast.
Why no one connects having too many kids and just mowing yards and commuter communities is beyond me...I was a die hard capitalist earlier in my life now I'm the opposite...take utilitarian and then ecology and you get what I am...very upset with what homo "colossus" has done to the world.
Tony
@@ooee8088 Ooh, stirrin' the shit, huh? 🤣
I moved into my house 8 years ago and in that time span they cleared several acres for a gigantic Flying J truck stop, a dollar store, 4 apt complexes, and a neighborhood. I'm trying to get neighbors to at least plant some native stuff to offset the destruction by about 1%.
Nice bit in the “News!” Shared it with my folks!
Chonkasaurus merch, Joey, Chonkasaurus merch
👍👍
Loved your segment on WGN!
Just searched for this 😂❤. So funny.
@@Zeebez on my way to find it!
Fascinating! I live in coastal Queensland, Australia - and if I squint my eyes, the landscape here reminds me of home. Our equivalent of this pine-oak association is _Callitris_ and _Banksia._ No wonder our _Casuarina_ have become such an environmental weed problem in Florida, it looks like they'd feel right at home. Even the forb layer in this pine-oak forest has parallels in our local vegetation.
PS: our chiggers are sandflies. Parallel evolution at the species level is interesting enough, but parallel evolution at the ecosystem level is mind-blowing.
@@damonroberts7372 Genuine question: How so? Isn't it the same? A niche exists, something will come along to fill it...
@@Ice_Karma But evolution is built on _random events_ shaped by selection pressure, and I'd have thought "there's more than one way to climb a tree". Clearly there are optimal solutions even at the ecological level. I'm genuinely curious as to what sandy scrub has to do with a preponderance of blood-sucking insects?
Thanks for posting right after I sold my soul for 300$ to greedy education monopoly
Gonna need "Smokey the Bear is an Asshole" shirts asap 💯 thanks for being real and making ecology interesting! Science community does need to loosen up and enjoy the role they're in. Glad to see I'm not the only one trying to change the "boring" science narrative. This shit is too much fun to be so serious. Appreciate you 🙏
Dang chiggers! Those bites last at least 3 weeks on me. Already pulled 3 ticks this spring. Bad year for buggers...
Always grateful to get shown what I should Always be Grateful For!!
Awesome Upload as Usual!!
why is it that being fully human feels like being an 👽
idk but you're not alone with that feeling
We were probably planted here by "aliens". Take me to your leader.
Space is fake. Aliens come fr below. Giant eyes. Cheese and rice..gfys
@@richardp6461 he went a ....that a way..↩
"One of those Brazilian teens living in the subway huffing paint!" 😆🤣☠️
Milkweed flowers are erotic AF, with a smell to match.
Thanks, as always, for the lesson brother! You're an awesome teacher. (You too Lily!) ✌🇦🇺
He said motility scooter! (And she laughed.)
Calamine lotion for the chiggers. Unlike mosquitos calamine works for these. I've gotten hit so bad my feat swelled and couldn't wear shoes. You've got some mature bites there. Maybe a soak and then try the calamine. You should see if you can get it by the gallon. I've applied coconut oil as well. They love me.
My routine is shower asap with tea tree castile. Scrub that in. Rinse. After drying skin calamine. Maybe coconut spot application and apply calamine. Reply if itchy. Antihistamines.
As someone in the Midwest who used to drive for a literal hour with basically all corn and the occasional town. It's terrible. There was a refinery for ethanol that added it to gas along the way.
Wasn't all bad tho. There were a few bald eagles along the way and hundreds of wind turbines
I really never appreciated milkweeds until I started watching this channel, now I always get excited when I see one of those weirdos 😊
They can also be very aromatic
Love this guy
Love your videos, I watch them almost every morning, learning about plants on the other side of the world, while enjoying my coffee☕️
Great tour of Florida nature! That Metroid larva was a big sucker.
Just saw your interview on WGN!!! That's awsome man! You are F'in awsome keep it up
I wonder . invent the chigger boot.
A rainboot design that breath's but chiggers can't climb,like a slippery surface. Idk wtf im talking about
Krylon gold and a paper bag keeps the chiggers off! Loves ya Tone. For sure holler at me next time your are in the Tally vicinity.
My favorite ecosystem in the south-east. Wonderful video.
They were talking about this 80ft drop and the dog was walking in that direction
Praying for him 🙏
The scrub Clinopodium are bangers, really need to find a source for C. dentatum but I've been growing the near endemic C. coccineum in a 3 gal for years with no care over a garden bed (my water table is too high for in-ground) with their tiny leaves they're like natural bonsai that don't need watering. They're really adaptable like you said. I think in habitat it's mostly a yellow sand specialist but it does fine in draining potting mix or mine I just used local gray sandy loam. So many cool plants in the scrub habitats here, thanks for sharing them!
😂😂😂 i love when UA-cam just randomly throws up a brilliant channel!
Thanks for visiting the area!! You've just answered so many of my long-standing plant id questions! 😂
"Had to stop at the Liberty County Knights of Columbus and check out the trough urinal." That's funny.
Nice! When I went down to Florida I saw that milkweed down there; didn't even know it was different from normal milkweed back then I also recall seeing some super spiky seed pods that punctured through the bottom of my sandals with surprising ease and latched onto my socks too like burs
Those long leaf pines are doooooooope
Oh wow. I live in Jackson County not far away. Thanks for this!!!!!!
I hear that savannah appeals to us - like we make our parks look like that with lawns dotted with trees - because that’s a collective memory out-of-Africa thing. Believe it?
Thorax. Forget all the other bee parts. Thorax.
That sandhill rosemary has a fantastic looking flower on it. Florida people are lucky to have it
We don't really have poison ivy down here in shitsville, but the mango family overall isn't a real easy one to live with. Even the regular orchard mango trees have a nasty 'sap surprise' for the unwary
I've noticed your editing style is kinda like an 80's vhs recording trying to cut mouthy Uncle Herman out before he says something not appropriate for the kids. Also a bit like the Mr. Plinckett bits on Red Letter Media...some of the most perfect editing and comedic timing.
Your comedic timing is so natural.
Thanks for spending a healthy amount of time at the panhandle.
I found st George island to be so otherworldly with the false rosemary and all kinds of cool polygala right next to the clear waters of the slow moving gulf.
And for camping the night sky is so clear out there.
You rock T!
Come on up to Jamaica bay we gotta getta guy up dehr
A dilemma i experienced quite often when i would collect monarch eggs and caterpillars from milkweeds about to be mowed, trying to tell the difference between an egg and a dried drop of sap...
Quotes metroid. Legendary.
Here, we have a bad way of thinking fires, too much fear of the people ( i think) with this videos of Joey i became aware of the importance of the fires, thanks🙂...the ticks are awful😱... when i go to Florida, after i have to think how to "escape" the ticks😅
His name is Jeff
In Minecraft.
@@ooee8088 What's wid dat? 🤣
@@Ice_Karma aka Tony Santoro
You ever gunna come up to Canada der guy? Will we let you in? I know a guy who knows a place, we could get you in. Lol
Up here on the North East coast we have a landscape feature like that ravine that we call a Frost Bottom.
So called because the temperature differential between the bottom and the surrounding landscape is extreme. Some only have a few frost free mornings per year.
I wonder if there's a similar temperature differential in those ones down there.
Lmao the Hercules beetle made me think of how those that dwell in the hell on earth called Florida will say a palomino bug isn't a roach..........lol.......right.....
You should visit the Marion County garbage mountain. Lots of comotose bald eagles. The once proud and majestic symbol of our country can hardly fly.
Ahhh, the chiggers...
I REALLY HATE those little buggers...
Since you've tried everything,
I'm assuming you've already crossed the "sulfer in a sock" off your list?
If not, maybe give this a try:
▪︎1st - you'll need a sock that has a good length of "leg" portion on it.
So, no footies!
2nd - you'll need sulfer powder.
Just straight sulfer powder.
Nothing fancy.
▪︎Pour between 1 cup & ½ cup of sulfer powder into an old sock so you end up with a nice size ball shape of sulfer powder in there.
▪︎At the very least,
a ping ping ball size amount,
and less than a tennis ball size amount.
▪︎AND- the sulfer HAS to be powder.
▪︎The amount in the sock doesn't really matter.
▪︎Just put however much fits in half the foot part of the sock, and you can still tie a knot in the leg part.
▪︎Filling half of the foot with powder,
and having a longer leg portion,
allows for better motion of "the bouncing" of the sulfer ball along your person.
▪︎Tie a knot in the sock, just around the ankle spot I guess.
▪︎The bouncing makes the powder poof out in a fine mist, and evenly distrubutes it over yourself.
Which is another reason for doing this outside, or at least in the garage.
Plus, you're not wasting the sulfer powder, or more importantly, it's just much better coverage than trying to pour the powder on yourself.
▪︎Refill the sock when necessary.
To apply-
▪︎When fully dressed,
& hopefully when you're entering tick & chigger territory, your pants are tucked into the socks you're wearing, which does help keep them off your skin a little bit.
I mean, you WILL look dumb!
No doubt about THAT!!
But who cares if it keeps the chiggers off ya!
(hashtag -
chiggers are THE WORST!)
▪︎ If you're wearing boots- apply the sulfer power to your lower pant leg, & socks,
▪︎then put your boots on,
▪︎again tucking your pants inside the boots!
▪︎ Apply the sulfer powder to all outer surfaces of the boots.
▪︎ Continue to bounce the sulfer sock up your legs.
I've never known anyone to need it applied higher than what pants cover.
But then,
I've still not seen everything - yet.
To recap:
Go outside & holding the sock above the knot, bounce the sulfer sock all over your shoes, socks, and up your pant legs.
Make SURE to cover each and every square inch of yourself!!
Even when wearing shorts, bounce the sulfer all over your bare legs, and up & over your shorts.
(Altho, I do not advise wearing shorts...)
When wearing long pants, we usually stopped applying sulfer just over the knee, but you can go higher, it all depends on the terrain you're exploring.
I used to do this for my young kids when they wanted to go exploring in the fields behind our house.
(In Texas = most wild places have chiggers)
And it worked every time.
This method DID keep all chiggers off of them.
(The ONLY thing worse than chiggers on me,
is chiggers on my small children!!)
Heaven help us if that step was forgotten!!
I even had a friend (a grown man) who didn't do the sulfer bounce when he went out exploring behind our house.
(He just wouldn't listen.)
That night he ended up in the hospital because of the enormous amounts of chigger bites on,
& around, his balls!!
He said not only were his balls VERY swollen, but they were bruised - black n blue, from the high number of bites!
I just took his word for it.
That was a learning experience he'll NEVER forget!!
And apparently I'm not forgetting it either!
I felt really bad for him...
It’s so weird to see elevation change in Florida 😂, I guess those ravines only exist in the north of Florida.
The highest point in Florida keeps getting higher. We can't bury our garbage so we build mountains.
It's more than that. Golds Head SP. Clermont area as well. Black creek ravines. Ravines SP in Palatka. Also there's a high elevation spot of SFL near Jupiter and Jensen.
@@donaldavery4667 dang...good point...and those limestone radioactive hills...freaking ignorant deathcult and they keep breeding...greedy
Apologies for my ignorance, but what is the "death cult"? I love your videos: you're incredibly knowledgeable, and I hope this doesn't offend you, but it's so much fun, listening to you talk botany in your Chicago accent! (I'm not going to guess which part, but I'd like to know... and I kinda noticed in your previous video that it comes and goes...) [Edited: wrong accent.]
Chicago accent.
@@sammygirl6910 Oh, crap. Thank you! *edits*
Was the "beautiful voluptuous creature" comment directed towards you or the milkweed?
heck yes... Love it..
Damn thats some juicy metroid you got there
That bee's got male pattern baldness.
Lol, know i am imagining bald guys with heaps of hair on their back, except for a little bald spot just below the shoulder blades. 😂
Wow, everything really is bigger in Texas! Maybe not, but everything does tend to grow smaller in Florida, culminating in island dwarfism like the Key deer is known for.
Steephead ravines are really neat ecosystems.
Again, I recommend coming South into Middle Florida, in Lake Wales Ridge State Park Areas. The Ridge of Florida.
my man, youve gotta use gaiters and long pants when you go out in the swamp! the picaridin and deet can only do so much, nothing beats a physical barrier to protect your ankles
I heard (on Clints Reptiles spider phylogeny vid) there there is an enormous number of mites(and I'm guessing therefore chiggers) that remain undescribed. This made me think, ah ha that is why I can't find very much information on them. Chiggers keep me from going to certain otherwise nice wildlife areas and I wish there was more research on them.
Ive always enjoyed those Eastern Fence Lizards. I remember seeing them in SW Mississippi when i was a kid. I called them Horny Toads i knew different.
Against chiggers I wear gaiters than come down well over my boot laces, held down with an elastic that goes under my instep. They look like elongated spats. Your ankle looked so painful. Hope it healed up fast.
Try a 60% Olive oil, 40% THC Oil ( I used decarbed Diamonds and sauce) rub, not many bugs seemed to like that, had a swarm of mosquitos around me and had none land on me. Found this out by accident, i use it as a muscle rub
Love those milkweeds
Is there any evidence that the eastern barrier islands had Fire adapted savanna? I can’t find any literature on it.
@Crimes Pay But Butanist Doesn't needs to make those "Como se dice" t-shirt design 👕
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Sorry about your chigger bites! Try dusting your ankles with sulfur powder. 💚
I grewup in Sarasota/Paradise and Kiss that goodbye. They have any ground left that isnt houses now? Pasture,Oranges ,celery but i think now just houses. I say visit but dont stay long. Minnesnowda is better for beauty than there. I don't think I would get in water after dumping.
Did I say this before? Can’t remember. Anyway, did you know milkweed such as grows in Upper Canada where I was raised is edible? Yes, of course Monarch butterfly larva thrive on the foliage, but I’m talking the immature clusters of flower buds. Yes, that’s right: steamed and served with butter, salt and pepper it’s divine, simply divine. Check it out!
Are dogs bothered by chiggers?
Those ankles...😢😢😢
I'm sure if you worked your way down that ravine, you would've ran into rhapidophyllum hystrix.
Joey! Your ankles dude!
Spray all my plowing-around insect bites with 70% isopropyl then coat with Benadryl cream. If not I scratch until they become sores. Especially my fingers.
Please don't let that $&![ get infected.
Aside, are those centimeter ticks tattooed on your middle finger?
FU2
How is Conradina not a Nepeta???
Pure Neem cold pressed seed oil, mixed with Vaseline.
Keeps mites off.
3rd edit: + you get to smell like soup stock for panhandle weddings.
I've done a lot of burning in that area.
Hit those bug bites with screaming hot water
Powder sulfur in a sock and tapped against shoes and pants will keep ticks and chiggers of.
How would you go about learning this sort of info about somewhere as completely void of hope as Long Island? Lived here all my life but know nothing about it.
If you want to come up here to hell that’d be cool too 😅
Many woodlands need fire, and need periodic prescribed burns. You now what? I'm thinking civilization needs some focused infernos. "Burn it all down!" Oh, sorry, got carried away with vitriol.
Fabaceae is the king 👑 of the south
Your not missing the BayArea yet! Go figure that later!🤧👍❤️! Who needs the A’s for sprouts In Oakland, Let’s all move to the dessert and depend on others for water while gambling on paradise? 😏🤞👍
Agriculture for the death cult 😂
Damn Joey you need some Deet or somethin brother 😢
Time to burn off da ankles
"you're not afraid it's gonna bite ya?"
"no"
Tony pokes it with a stick
edit: "Smokey the bear is a asshole" shirt with a pine forest burning and Smokey running away on fire, when? Featuring lots of plants that require fire.
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Yeah liberty county needs liberated
hE SAid 5 minutes before his hand fell off 11:48
A little side track, if you please: Do dogs not get preyed upon by chiggers? Is there a repellant against chiggers for dogs? For primates?🐕🐒🦍🐜🪳🕷🪰🦟😬😱😵💫😖😫👣
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Tony
Since you are using promethium on your clothes
You need Sawyer picaridin on you
spray your legs with hairspray before and after going into the woods and never get chiggers again.
Does this really work?
Dey gotta Dis ol House on this shit they don't like an
.. a dagum unicorn ..
Why dont you introduce us to your friends? You are in the south. Manners matter!