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Rman
·It's not that I am uncomfortable with women's bodies. It's that many have been uncomfortable with me.
Just kiddin around amigo.
Spider bites
Just kiddin around amigo.
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BlackTalon
··This Space for RentJust kiddin around amigo.
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Walrus
·Seriously my wife almost died of a spider bite. She grew up in China and they apparently have a few deadly ones. She got bit as a kid. Very bad. Her mother had a similar experience with a snake, also in China. So my wife freaks over spiders to this day. My mother in law freaks out over snakes to this day. On occasion my mother in law will stay with us. We have harmless snakes and spiders all over here but they are all marked for death with these two running around. My mother in law hates cats. One day my cat hairy killed a snake and brought it home. All the sudden my mother in law thought she was the best animal in the world. I try to explain with pictures and what not the spiders and snakes in our area are 99% of the time harmless but I guess that 1% is too big a risk. I hope the OP recovered well. I got bit by something one time and my whole neck swelled up. I thought it was an allergic reaction and in a few minutes my throat would close, I’d turn blue and die a horrible death but the swelling resolved itself and as you can see I am still alive.
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Muddlerminnow
·Don't mites typically leave an array of bites rather than just a single bite?
It can go either way--I've been bitten by plenty of mites in the past, some solo, some en masse. Many different kinds of mites too--dust mites, bird mites, and so on. And there's bedbugs.... the bedbugs in the house in Bordeaux that hadn't been slept in or cleaned for ages--that was apocalyptic. People like to blame spiders because spiders are pretty easy to blame, and you can SEE spiders--mites, no so easily.
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cicindela
··Steve @ ΩFLooks like chigger bites. Your a little far North, but still quite possible. They usually don't show up until 12-24 hours later.
And yes I do know about such things
Research Associate
Florida Dept of Agriculture
Insect section
And yes I know that mites (chiggers) are not insects.
You are luck just a few bites. When numerous they can be unbearable-itchy
https://www.healthline.com/health/chigger-bites#pictures
And yes I do know about such things
Research Associate
Florida Dept of Agriculture
Insect section
And yes I know that mites (chiggers) are not insects.
You are luck just a few bites. When numerous they can be unbearable-itchy
https://www.healthline.com/health/chigger-bites#pictures
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janice&fred
·And yes I do know about such things
You know...just the other morning I was sitting at our breakfast table and said to my wife "Gee I wonder if Steve knows about such things" 😁
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cicindela
··Steve @ ΩFYou know...just the other morning I was sitting at our breakfast table and said to my wife "Gee I wonder if Steve knows about such things" 😁
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64Wing
·Looks like chigger bites. Your a little far North, but still quite possible. They usually don't show up until 12-24 hours later.
And yes I do know about such things
Research Associate
Florida Dept of Agriculture
Insect section
And yes I know that mites (chiggers) are not insects.
You are luck just a few bites. When numerous they can be unbearable-itchy
https://www.healthline.com/health/chigger-bites#pictures
Anyway, the swelling went down in about 36 hours but there is a small mark remaining at each location more akin to a mosquito bite in dimensions at this point.
I wasn't concerned really other than the bugger (whatever it is) coming back up for more another day. But that's just a gamble we deal with as humans on the earth.
This thread turned out to be very amusing to me, which I fully expected of you all
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janice&fred
·I take pride in an extensive vocabulary. Words are meant to be used!
Yea that and bug spray there Shakespeare 😁
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BlackTalon
··This Space for RentHave the eggs hatched yet????
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64Wing
·Have the eggs hatched yet????
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Archer
··Omega Qualified Watchmaker
Years ago whilst visiting my wife’s family down under, we had found a white tail in our bedroom one night, and killed it. I was getting up the next morning and about to put my jeans on, and being the spider paranoid person I am, I shook my jeans and sure enough another one came out of the leg of the jeans....
At that very moment my wife was in the kitchen talking to her father about the one we found the night before, and that’s when he mentioned we shouldn’t leave any clothes on the floor, as these things love to crawl inside them. They hadn’t told us that before...
Tough living out of a suitcase but I made sure nothing else was left on the floor no matter how exhausted I was when I took it off...
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riimar
·It's all good. You're not Australian 👍
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Professor
·Worst bite I got was when lifting a bucket by its turned over rim. The bite was right in the inside crease of a left index finger joint. It looked like the flesh had been nipped by the point of wire cutters. Fairly large, over 1/8" and through all layers of skin. No blood though there should have been.
The pain was massive and immediate, like an electric shock all the way up my arm.
I grabbed my arm tight above the bicep with my thumb digging deep in the armpit to close off the veins before the venom got to my heart.
I barely made it to the house and laid down on the couch. By that time my arm was ruddy and beginning to turn black. I may have blacked out for awhile.
I was sick for several days but there were no lasting effects.
If it was a spider it would have had to be huge. I later read of the bite of the Coral snake resembling the bite I received. The coral snake has no fangs and can only break the skin if it catches loose flesh at a joint, an ear lobe or the bridge of the nose or similar areas. I'd hate to have one crawl up my pants leg that's for sure.
Whatever it was I'm certain that if I hadn't cut off circulation so quickly and the venom had reached my heart I'd have been as dead as Disco in minutes.
The pain was massive and immediate, like an electric shock all the way up my arm.
I grabbed my arm tight above the bicep with my thumb digging deep in the armpit to close off the veins before the venom got to my heart.
I barely made it to the house and laid down on the couch. By that time my arm was ruddy and beginning to turn black. I may have blacked out for awhile.
I was sick for several days but there were no lasting effects.
If it was a spider it would have had to be huge. I later read of the bite of the Coral snake resembling the bite I received. The coral snake has no fangs and can only break the skin if it catches loose flesh at a joint, an ear lobe or the bridge of the nose or similar areas. I'd hate to have one crawl up my pants leg that's for sure.
Whatever it was I'm certain that if I hadn't cut off circulation so quickly and the venom had reached my heart I'd have been as dead as Disco in minutes.
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lindo
·Years ago whilst visiting my wife’s family down under, we had found a white tail in our bedroom one night, and killed it. I was getting up the next morning and about to put my jeans on, and being the spider paranoid person I am, I shook my jeans and sure enough another one came out of the leg of the jeans....
At that very moment my wife was in the kitchen talking to her father about the one we found the night before, and that’s when he mentioned we shouldn’t leave any clothes on the floor, as these things love to crawl inside them. They hadn’t told us that before...
Tough living out of a suitcase but I made sure nothing else was left on the floor no matter how exhausted I was when I took it off...
Allow me to tell you my story of another Australian icon - the bull ant. They are typically at least an inch long, with a fearsome sting.
I was on a three day long distance hike with a couple of mates. We had been going hard all day, but did not reach our camping spot until well after dark. Exhausted, I put up my little hiking tent and laid out the sleeping bag, then had something to eat before collapsing into bed.
A couple of minutes after climbing into the bag I was stung in the legs by something vicious, then several more stings hit so hard I scrambled out of the bag yelping.
After stripping everything I discovered I had pitched the little tent on top of a bull ant nest. My mates of course were helpless with laughter.
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