What about you?
When you keep on going closer to a hornet nest to get a better photograph, until you get stung by one. Happened to me with these: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/259532684 :)
You come running when a family member tells you of a giant hairy spider.
Do spiders count here as “entomology“?
Haha… I have an opposite scenario where I have to stand in an area filled with mosquitoes to get a decent shot of a butterfly, (the ones that spend their time mostly flying around at the same place than sitting down). Do you have less potent mosquitoes or something? Because the ones here in India are pure misery, and you can’t let them just “drink your blood”.
Yeah, they’re so close and there are definitely plenty of fun spider stories out there :)
Yesterday at a community garden I was working at, there was a commotion at the old rotting cardboard in which one of my brothers was like, “No wait my sister will want to take a photo of it!” And it turned out to be a huge hairy wolf spider 
They are nasty in North America, too; I’ve never been to India so I can’t tell you if they’re worse or not, but as a person who is allergic, I can tell you it is no fun, although I will happily stay in the same place for a good cause (Once I videoed a green heron catching fish for over three minutes straight; I was getting bitten to the bone and it was so hard not to scratch, or even bat them away. It was worth it though, the little bird caught two nice sized bluegill)
I do remember trying to get a pic of an obnoxiously small gray hairstreak and feeling tingling and stinging sensations up my legs, but stood there for around two minutes or so before I looked down and realized I was standing in a fire ant hill. Ouch! I was definitely quick to move out of that area after that, and ended up with no nice photos of the butterfly because the camera wouldn’t cooperate in the small amount of time I had 
Yeah, fortunately, the ones here in Ohio aren’t nearly as bad!
Recently accidentally stood in a ant hill as well (though weren’t fire ants, so didn’t do anything).
When a large spider falls on you from the roof and your only worry is to photograph it before it scuttles away. This beautiful green spider fell on me a few days ago, https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/305461983.
Did you see that clubtail??
Yes! Not the greatest photos but I got it. 
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/305112985
…you’re obsessed with refining observations stuck at Arthropoda. You can do it too! https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/identify?order_by=random&verifiable=true&hrank=phylum&lrank=phylum&taxon_id=47120
EDIT: updated the URL to remove my exclusion of observations with a gall annotation.
I was looking up the meanings/origins of scientific names of some plants yesterday as a way to try to remember them. I skimmed over the forum topics just now and my brain saw “etymology” instead of “entomology”. 
Not the greatest photos, he says. Seriously, those are wonderful!
I wish there were easier ways to find these observations that don’t fit the ‘normal’ taxa filters. If the observation doesn’t fit in the regular 11 categories, they should all go in Unknown, in my opinion.
Thanks for the link!
You can just use the species search to search for any taxon.
A certain proportion of observations that have a community ID of “Arthropoda” were not assigned this ID initially. They ended up there because, for example, the observer ID’d it as an insect and someone else noticed that it had 8 legs. Or it was a gall initially ID’d as a gall mite that someone else identified as being made by a gall wasp. Or it was identified as a woodlouse but turned out to be a pill millipede.
Arthropoda is different than unknown – people who enjoy the challenge of trying to interpret mysterious arthropods or arthropod constructions are generally going to be a different subset of users and require a different skillset than those who sort observations that lack any ID at all.
To find observations stuck at a high level, you can use search filters to limit results to a specific taxonomic rank (e.g. lowest rank = phylum or whatever).
I am aware of this, but they end up in a large pool of observations that are very difficult to find unless specifically searching for it.
Lots of people like to go through the ‘Unknown’ records to make sure they go to the correct taxa, so experts can then help narrow down. That is easily done using the ‘Unknown’ category in the filter. No such filter button appears for any of the other taxa; arthropoda, animalia, etc. I would bet that more of these observations would be correctly identified if it was easier to search for them using the existing filter functionality. An ‘Other’ category for all observations that don’t fit in the 12 displayed filter categories is what I’m thinking.
Maybe that functionality is there using the ‘Rank’ options? I don’t know, I’ve never played around with that.
Either way, I feel this is moving away from the topic, so I apologize. I didn’t mean to go off track. Just sharing my thoughts.