On my topic about bees and wasps, @snakesrcool suggested that [image] Stung by a bee or wasp We need a thread on "what animals have injured/stung/bitten you? So here it is. What animals have injured/stung/bitten you?

I don’t think you have to worry. People generally get what they ask for- hey, if you are wading about with no shirt through a leech infested swamp, you shouldn’t be surprised if you end up with blood loss😂 In my case, I was feeding an eel, and grabbed a snake, picked up the spiders and decided snor…

Sadly I got stung by a hornet when I rescued it from a pool. It hurt

You can post it with 2 photos, the first mostly masked, the second showing the observation in full. Explain what the photo is in the text. This makes sure that if someone is grossed out, they chose to be by scrolling to the second photo. (I definitely think you should post it.)

I stepped on a bumblebee, decades ago. I still remember it well. I’ve been bitten by the usual arthropods – mosquitoes, horsefly, ticks, chiggers. Northern Water Snakes, garter snakes, probably Fox Snake, but nothing poisonous. Working at a nature center, taking care of animals, I got bitten by …

I’m been bitten and clawed by various cats, mostly out of love, ignorance, or, in my late diva cat’s case, being blind, deaf, and half Siamese. I’ve mentioned my experience with disturbing a ground hornet nest while weeding, but i was pretty lucky until recently. Apocephalus borealis have acquired…

[image] graysquirrel: “Stinging algae” - I don’t know what this stuff actually is, but it’s a small bristly-looking algae-like organism that gives a sting akin to mild stinging nettle - my childhood swimming hole was full of it. If your swimming hole was marine (?), what looked like an alga b…

[image] sedgequeen: You can post it with 2 photos, the first mostly masked, the second showing the observation in full. Explain what the photo is in the text. This makes sure that if someone is grossed out, they chose to be by scrolling to the second photo. (I definitely think you should post it…

A little cropping, and who’ll know? :wink:

Oh, the Red-bellied Woodpecker! I was banding birds and it got stuck in the mist net. Worked hard to get out, so it wrapped the netting around its toes and around its tongue, which is edged with backwards-facing projections, the better for pulling insects out of wood. I couldn’t untangle him, so …

[image] shecoyote: I have been bitten by insects: wasp, midges, horse and sand flies, ticks (so far no lyme disease :crossed_fingers:), some kind of NM grass bug and, of course, mosquitoes. The worst bites that I have ever had so far were from bugs in Panama. I think they were mosquitoes. The d…

What animals have injured/stung/bitten you?

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susanhewitt July 20, 2021, 8:40pm 162

If your swimming hole was marine (?), what looked like an alga but stung you would have been a hydroid.

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