Environment Bites, stings and other niceties..

[muttweed]

HOLY ****ING SHIT, is it a coincidence that as I was reading this thread, this ad popped up

heart stopped for a few.

 

[carn tigez]

I've only ever been stung by a bee before, thankfully wasn't allergic to it.

I am allergic, been stung 3 times all when I was 8 or under. Last time I got stung on the tip of my index finger after trying to brush off what I thought was a fly on my head. My arm right up to my elbow was blown up for a week. I now have phenergan and an epipen in case I get stung again, because each time I get stung the reaction gets worse. If I was to get stung on my upper body/head now without treatment it could be fatal.

 

[IceNine]

I remember when I was about six I went to a farm for a bonfire in a pair of trackies with the elastic around the ankles. Mid-way through the night I was watching the fire and saw something dart out of the flames straight towards me. It was a huntsman, half-burnt and angry, doing that jittery dance-run that spiders do when they are in pain. It ran straight onto my foot and wormed its way into my pants. I started throwing my legs around in fear and panic, screaming all the while as I felt that hairy freak scuttling all over my legs. It wasn't until my mum ran over and yanked me into the air by my arm and pulled my daks off in front of the party that I could start to calm down, and luckily it didn't bite me. I hate huntsmen.

Wasps are ten times more painful than bees, and harder to kill. Hornets are the most frightening, and can take repeated hits with a shovel without taking damage. You have to cut them.

 

[Jackfrost]

I stood on a Cobbler in Mandurah and what followed was a red line running up my vein and excruciating pain beyond belief. All the while Dad was berating me for "ruining the day at the beach and being a sook after stepping on a rock". The only relief is immersing your foot in hot, hot water and you don't care that you are burning your foot.

My son was bitten by a White Tip at 18 months old but only really suffered bad swelling. Their reputation proceeds them.

We also recently had the air con tubing rip in the roof and redbacks nested in there and were descending from the vents when fully grown. That was the purest of evil!