Don't bedbugs typically bite in groups of 3s?
Also, dermatitis should be on there since it's often confused with bug bites.
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This looks like AI generated nonsense so...
Got nailed by a wasp today for the first time in 20-years! I ignore them, they ignore me, no hassle. Even had a small nest over my front door last year that I left alone.
Fuckers started building under an outside table, right at knee height, all but touched the nest. I ain't mad. I slaughtered them all and showed their aborted children to my kids as a science lesson. "EEWWW DAD!!!"
I hate that they call it "insect bites" when several of those are stings, not bites (bee, wasp, scorpion, some ants).
Also spiders, ticks and scorpions aren't insects either!
Can I get a vibe check on "Bug Wound"? "Bug wound" feels a bit more inclusive.
I think the last non-mosquito bug wound I got was from a cicada i was moving out of my kitchen. it tried drinking my blood?? like sap?? it hurt but it was cute. it didn't wanna leave after, either.
Ah, but if we're splitting hairs then we must consider that none of the wee beasties in the image are true bugs.
This should really be marked nsfw
Good call. 🫡
This is important basically first-aid. Fucking hate prudes
No mention of the bastard Horse Fly that chewed me up while I was strimming yesterday. I reckon the only ones I like less than the Horse Fly are the flea and the tick, and the last only because they’re disease-ridden little nightmares. That said, I’ve never been bitten by a bedbug or stung by a scorpion, so they may well be bastards too
Definitely. Horse flies SUCK. Painful little bastards.
Horse Flys give you some nasty welts. Bed Bugs give you PTSD.
Yeah, I can see the whole “bed not being the safe retreat from the horrors of the waking world” thing being traumatic, I reckon I’d probably just burn the whole lot and start again
had scorpion sting ; can confirm this accuracy.
edit: it was more indented tho.
*not to scale
Bees can bite …?
Same for scorpions, wasps, and ants
Don't ants bite with their mandibles?
Yes, but you'll barely feel that. They sting with their stingers, which are so small you typically won't even feel it at first. If you watch them sting up close, some of them will grab onto you with their mandibles and furiously sting you with their stinger repeatedly. Ants evolved directly from wasps and are basically wingless wasps, which is why they're such dicks
Some also have stingers
"spider" as if there's only one sort. Presumably likewise scorpion.
Is a black widow bite comparable to a redback bite (very painful, unlikely to kill an adult)?
They are quite similar, to the point that redbacks are sometimes called "Australian black widows" over here
Is a black widow bite comparable to a redback bite (very painful, unlikely to kill an adult)?
Those are very comparable as redbacks are black widows :)
Isnt a spider usually 2 marks?
No.
Only exception are very large mygalomorphs (tarantulas & co.).
NSFW because of the scawwwy bugs ?