If you let them come and go on their own it wont be a problem. Just try not to pull them away from your body. It leaves its suckers behind which may cause infection. Make long socks of jeans clothes and wear it inside your show. Leeches cant cross these. They can cross pores of normal socks very easily. Pankaj
On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 6:00 PM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote: > You are reminding us of some thing we almost forgot. In our trip to Chakrata > in September on first day of our outing, when we stopped for lunch, Nidhan > ji and Balkar ji found blood spots and remnants of leeches on their feet > when they opened their shoes. My wife was worried and asked me to open my > shoes. There were three spots on one sock and two on another, and when I > opened the socks atleast 5-6 had sucked my blood. Next day Balkar ji and > Nidhan ji prepared themselves in army way, tying socks over their shoes with > tightly running laces, but in the afternoon they were the attacked the most. > After than we took care not to stand long in a marshy place, but there were > occasional leech suckings. > Shikant ji who had seen the worst of leeches in Western Ghats was always > there to reassure us and not to worry about these small leeches. > -- > Dr. Gurcharan Singh > Retired Associate Professor > SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007 > Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018. > Phone: 011-25518297 Mob: 9810359089 > http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ > > On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Madhuri Raut <itii...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Thank you Pankaj ji and Satish ji. I have had a dreadful experience of >> Plasmodium falciparum malaria in the past. I only would say please take >> care. >> Regards >> Bhagyashri >> >> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 2:45 PM, Satish Phadke <drsmpha...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >>> Madhuri ji >>> These are side effects of some good sightings in Nature. >>> Had been to Mahabaleshwar on 1st Oct 2011 with Shrikant ji in wild in >>> search of some epiphytic orchids. We could find Dendrobium mabelae and >>> Oberonia recurva and few other plants other than orchids. On returnig home I >>> happened to notice some Tick bites on my legs.They are worse than mosquito >>> bites One of the wound is still healing; but the joy of catching a good >>> orchid is much more than that....... >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Madhuri Raut <itii...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> Neha ji and Satish ji how do you protect yourselves from mosquitoes when >>>> you visit these areas of wild plants in Warje and Vetal tekdi?Sometime back >>>> I visited Kalyani nagar area and there were many mosquitoes on the wild >>>> plants . Many cases of Malaria and Dengue have been reported from Pune. >>>> Regards >>>> Bhagyashri >>>> >>>> On Fri, Oct 21, 2011 at 4:22 AM, Dr Pankaj Kumar >>>> <sahanipan...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Dear Neha >>>>> Its good that many people dont know about these plants. Otherwise they >>>>> wont be found so easily. Withania is getting rare these days because >>>>> of its medicinal properties. >>>>> Thanks for sharing these beautiful pics... >>>>> Regards >>>>> Pankaj >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Oct 20, 11:45 pm, Neha Singh <neha.vind...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> > Yes Satish Ji , on that Warje internal road, there are ashwagandha >>>>> > plants, I >>>>> > photographed them too. >>>>> > And now we are waiting for " lot of Indigoferas; crotolarias and >>>>> > Cullen etc >>>>> > ". >>>>> > >>>>> > Neha S >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Dr Satish Phadke >> > > > > -- ********************************************************************** "Taxonomists getting Extinct and Species Data Deficient !!" Pankaj Kumar Ph.D. (Orchidaceae) Conservation Officer Office: Flora Conservation Department Kadoorie Farm and Botanic Garden (KFBG) Corporation Lam Kam Road, Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong. Residence: 36c, Ng Tung Chai, Lam Tseun Tai Po, New Territories, Hong Kong. email: pku...@kbfg.org sahanipan...@gmail.com pankajsah...@rediffmail.com Phone: +852 2483 7128 (office - 8:30am to 5:30pm) +852 9436 6251 (mobile)
