I've been hornswaggled by a killdeer.
Angel: Will you just shut up for once?! Illyria: What? Angel: My God, the speechifying. Has it ever occurred to you that now might not be the best time for when-we-were-muck stories?
'Time Bomb'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Laga - Feb 09, 2009 7:45:50 pm PST #5860 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
§ ita § - Feb 09, 2009 7:45:59 pm PST #5861 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
§ ita § - Feb 09, 2009 7:49:05 pm PST #5862 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
msbelle - Feb 09, 2009 7:49:35 pm PST #5863 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
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.
megan walker - Feb 09, 2009 7:49:48 pm PST #5864 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
A moose bit my sister once.
msbelle - Feb 09, 2009 7:50:12 pm PST #5865 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
ooohhhhh CHIGGERS. ugh.
Burrell - Feb 09, 2009 7:54:48 pm PST #5866 of 30000
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
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::
Laga - Feb 09, 2009 7:57:49 pm PST #5867 of 30000
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Are there no deadly scorpions?
§ ita § - Feb 09, 2009 7:58:51 pm PST #5868 of 30000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
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.
billytea - Feb 09, 2009 8:05:45 pm PST #5869 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
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.