In the last 2 years I’ve been stung by a paper wasp, a couple of honey bees, and a bumblebee. They honeybee stings didn’t hurt too much, but my foot swelled up so bad I missed about a week of work because I couldn’t put a shoe on. I was changing a light bulb when the paper wasp hit me. I honestly thought I touched a live electrical wire and had shocked myself. Worst out of the 3. Last summer I heard my 9 year old son screaming bloody murder and when I ran outside I found a paper wasp had flown up under his shirt and kept hitting him over and over on his back. Anyway, that’s about as bad as we have it in Ohio. Been lucky enough to stay away from hornets.
I was bitten by a psycho Rottweiler as it attempted to attack my huge Siberian Husky / Shepherd x.
I got ankle-tapped by it, before putting my ceramic-toed safety boot in to its jaw.
That was a bad day.
I mowed over a nest of those damn bees/hornets or what ever they are that burrow into the ground. They sting multiple times each and I found about 11 of them in me. I let them go back into the hole and then poured about a half gallon of gas it, let it vaporize and then threw in a match… They looked like flaming popcorn! It felt good to get revenge. Later I dug into it, did not realize that they dug so deep or had so many in the nest… And, they are huge!
Allergic to bee stings. Not anaphylactic, but bad enough to be hospitalized when it happens.
I was bitten by the flashlight bug. Talk about hurt!
Got bitten by a cotton mouth years ago. Luckily it only got me with 1 fang in the side of my index finger. Made me super sick (I wont get graphic on that part) and my arm and hand were swollen to the point my fingers were totally swollen together and my arm was as big, if not bigger than my thigh and turned almost black before it was all said and done all the way past my shoulder joint.
I was told I had gotten off “EASY” by the doctors as I didn’t have to get any anti-venom and got by with only antibiotics, pain killers and ice packs for the first 3 days, then things kind of started slowly going back to normal. Left a huge blister looking sore and open yucky wound for a few months then finally all but disappeared.
my one buddy had me mow his lawn one time, and i kept getting “stingy feelings”… took me not long to figure out i was running over some kind of small ground bees in a hole in the lawn, lol… mainly when they started coming out and “flying sorties” looking for the bad guy, which was me…
when i complained, he said “why do you think i didnt want to cut the grass?”
Some type of wasp when I was at school over thirty year’s ago, I was sorting through this hessian rope for sport’s day and this wasp must’ve been sitting there waiting for me.
Most creature’s in the UK are friendly.
Once had a wasp up the sleeve while riding and I got many stings while I stopped and removed Jacket and shirt.
I have fortunately missed getting bitten by any Australia’s nastier inhabitants.
Got a baby red fox after the den was destroyed accidentally by a bulldozer. Kept as a pet in an outdoor cage for several months. Was totally wild but I decided I was going to tame him by trying to gradually get him accustomed to people touching him. Big mistake, he chewed up my arm from my hand to my elbow in about 3 seconds. Also with with my cousin when he was bitten by a Cotton Mouth Moccasin, probably 8 or 9 years old. We were in a rural area playing around a pond about 40 miles from the nearest hospital.We did everything wrong. Wrapped a belt around his arm and ran about 2 miles to the nearest house. He spent a couple of days in the hospital and doctors said his worst damage was caused by having a tourniquet on his arm for so long.
Fire ants.
But the scariest bite that I ever got was when I was about 6 years old. There was an old tin can that seemed to be moving. Curious, I turned it over. Out leapt a young mongoose that bit me on the thumb before bounding off into the bushes.
When I was a kid, maybe eight years old, we had a wasp's nest in my family's backyard.
I thought it would be a good idea to throw rocks at the nest...
I got at least half a dozen wasp stings to the face.
Luckily I didn't get any on my eyes, but it still definitely sucked!
I marvel at the idea that someone in Australia got bitten by an Australian creature and survived to tell it, i thought everything was deadly there.
My most painfull/lasting stings are by far jelly fish.
I get bitten/stung a lot. My wife used to joke that I had a list of critters that I was “trying” to check off.
-Jack-jumper ant is probably the most painful. 1st time I was bitten/stung wasn’t that bad but the 2nd time about a year later I had intense pain and my arm went red from wrist to elbow.
-Bullants up the shorts are probably the second most painful.
-Flathead, a gill spine in the toe. Vomiting and headache for 48hrs, it turned out the spine had lodged in the first joint of one of my toes, it was there for over a year before I found it and cut it out. It’s now in a specimen jar.
-Mosquitoes, on one occasion I was bitten so many times the bites couldn’t be distinguished from one and another. Fever and vomiting for close to 72hrs.
-Whitetail spider. Abscess 40-50mm in diameter on right leg.
-Spider, suspected brown house or whitetail. Abscess 20mm diameter left foot.
Then there are the mildly to non-painful and comedy bites. They include kangaroo, emu, brush tail possum,cows, red deer, goat, black rat, goose, cormorant, blue-tongued lizard and don’t worry I won’t list all the breeds of dogs and cats :laughing:
Hey I didn’t know mosquitoes could give u vomiting! I never have been bitten or stung yet heh
As a child, I thought a wasp nest was a half of orange someone threw in a tree. Decided to poke it with a stick. Got two stings on my eyes (I assume eyelids)… I remember doing a bit of wailing. lol. Most recently, cycling, a yellow thing (not bee) stung me in the upper thigh (normal for bugs to sting the instant it hits my body). It hurt and continue hurting for a good hour. Normal stings hurt for 2-4 minutes. It left a dark bump and I started wondering if it laid eggs in me!! lol. Three months later, there still is a little mark. (no I didn’t have any babies ) Been stung by wasps on my forehead and bees in my helmet already while cycling. Got a small sting on my left tear gland too… lol.
I went to the Dr for that one, after some blood tests they said it was either a reaction to so many bites or something else had bitten me along with the mosquitos. I wouldn’t be close to exaggerating if I said I was bitten 300 times. We were hiking through some mangroves when they appeared, it looked like a black cloud that after about an hour disappeared as quickly as it had appeared.
A huge Bell Hornet about this size. Felt like being hit with a nail gun
Stingray .
Worst pain I’ve ever experienced .
Stayed sore for about a year until all of the scales in the wound dissolved …
A brown recluse spider bite, on my ankle. The thing is that the area becomes necrotic (flesh dies) so doctor had to cut the entire area out. He did it in his office, and it was painful and by the time it was done, there was blood all over the place ;(!