I've been hornswaggled by a killdeer.

Everybody in the South, everybody in the Caribbean. All of Mexico and South America. Africa. India. Just to start. Not getting bitten in those places would be the rarity.

I used to think scorpions killed, and I woke up one night to find my father had just been attacked by one in the bathroom and we got sent back to bed. I was sure I'd wake up to a dead father. Not a good night.

So your mosquito odds are good, but watch the diseases around where you're hanging.

I wonder if bee sting is a venom and not a poison. Venoms have to go right into the bloodstream--you can drink rattlesnake venom enough to kill ten people if betten and suffer no ill effects.

The total worst was the horseflies in lake area Quebec. Big beasties and you feel the bite. I mostly don't feel getten bitten by mosquitos. Which is good, because most of the antimosquito stuff gives me a migraine. Oh, and then there are sandflies. Tricksy puppies.

We stayed by a lake in Eth for a night or two and I was scared of mosquitos there, but we stayed unbitten. We did get a flea later on the trip at a different locale and that was no fun.

shirft, I too had a tick bite, of which my brother loves to remind.

A moose bit my sister once.

ooohhhhh CHIGGERS. ugh.

I used to think scorpion bites killed too.

I suspect we have a brown recluse living in a small hole in one of our back windows. It freaks me out, but so far as long as we leave it's window closed and leave it alone, it leaves us alone. But that venom is nasty.

you can drink rattlesnake venom enough to kill ten people if betten and suffer no ill effects.

::shudder::

Are there no deadly scorpions?

Yeah, there's a distinction between venomous which needs to be introduced directly to the bloodstream or poisonous, which needs to be ingested. I would not gamble with that shit.

Are there no deadly scorpions?

Oh yes, but they're in the minority. Even with them, deaths from scorpion stings are generally limited to the young, the old, the infirm and the allergic.