A co-worker and I got to host an interview candidate for dinner tonight. That's a really fun part of working, sharing a free meal and good stories. I also went to the library and back before meeting them. I LOVE HAVING A LIBRARY CLOSE BY. I had to take back a book that I couldn't finish reading. I always feel dissapointed in books like those.
I'm going to vote mosquitos. They bite. I itch. they swell and inflame even if I don't scratch or rub them. And the mosquitos down here are particularly brawny. I'm glad I don't live in lake Jackson anymore, where the mosquitos will bite you through 3 layers of closing at 6 am in the morning. Fire ants I can avoid for the most part. The bites may itch like the dickens, but the radius of itch doesn't expand ilke it does for mosquito bites.
Today's Question of the day? is:
what is your worst insect sting experience?
love,
The Asker
6 comments:
Well, I need to tell you about my worst experience with a bug. My mother, sister and I were cleaning out our very deep hall closet in Pt. Arthur, Tx one afternoon. I was a pre-teen. I felt something crawling on my leg...I quickly pulled down my jeans, and a very large, black roach crawled out of my pants leg. We all screamed! I still shiver just thinking about it!
Well, the time I found a leech stuck to the top of my hand in Wisconsin was pretty icky, but it didn't hurt. I thought it was a wet leaf on my hand, but it wouldn't flick off, so at that moment of realization I was none too thrilled.
The bugs in Venezuela were pretty serious creatures. I would imagine that the same is true in Brasil. We had the leaf-cutter ants and they were cool to watch, but harmless if you are a non-leaf creature.
So I will go back to the mosquitoes. They were relentless in Venezuela. I can remember mornings where it looked like I had hives, as I was covered in quarter-sized swellings of mosquito bites.
Jeannie, that story gives me the shivers! I would like to think that the moral of that story is to not clean out closets!!
As an adult, I have been stung by bees while working in the yard. Several places on my arm and 1 close to my eye. Made my eye swell...almost shut. That was pretty traumatic.
When I was a teen, I was stung by a scorpion. I was cleaning/picking up things in our
'wash house' on the farm. That was very traumatic. Wait, I guess that is not an insect, is it?
Roaches, leeches, ants, mosquitoes, bees, scorpions...all...undesireable.
Ohhhhhhhh...it feels like something
is crawling on my back.........
When I was a little kid, I sat on a wasp at a Brazilian outdoor party. Ouch!! I was also stung by a wasp on my arm when I was 14. That one I deserved...I had been smacking an innocuous looking bush for no reason.
Usually mosquito repellent and a fan work pretty well for me in keeping away mosquitos.
I'm not sure if it was the WORST- but on "bid day" for my failed attempt at being in a sorority we had Lei's that were shipped in from Hawaii. When the sorority sister greeting me went to give me a hug a bee stung me on my eye lid. It had been sitting in the lei.
It wasn't incredibly painful, I thought she had an eyebrow ring or something that poked me hard, but my eye swelled up really awfully, and it hurt after the sting.
Thankgully I'm not allergic to bee stings (at least not badly) because the swelling wasn't awful, and my eye didn't close up.
My other traumatic one was a scorpion sting. Also not allergic to it, so it wasn't more than a pin prick, but I was riding a horse, so I couldn't fling it, and risk scaring the horse. I finally flicked it off me but there was another that was stinging the horse, and the horses reaction was to jump and roll. Thankfully, I was able to jump off the horse myself before he rolled! (Why do horses roll when being stung? Do they think it makes the scorpion go away?)
When I was little I was on a seesaw with my cousin with a beehive underneath. Someone once told me when a bee comes near, stay still and they won't sting you. So I stayed still, my cousin took off running and screaming, and I was covered in bee stings. Ouch.
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