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Wasp bites are a lot more painful than mosquito bites.

• the_af 2y ago
  Mosquito bites are not painful at all to me. I've been stung by a bee only once, and it wasn't particularly painful (but not nothing, of course). As I mentioned above, I've been stung by swarms of wasps twice and it was very painful. I hear yellowjacket stings are extremely painful, but even though I've been near them I've never been stung... fortunately.
  • fuzztester 2y ago
    >Mosquito bites are not painful at all to me. interesting. I had a friend who was like that. once he invited me to a jazz concert near a river in the city where we both lived. river = mosquitoes. it was around 7 to 8 p.m. there was a shitload of mosquitoes around, and they were biting me and other people like mad, but he seemed completely unaffected. I asked him, aren't you being troubled by them? he said no. I had had enough, and ran away from both the concert and those mosquitoes. I have been stung by wasps a few times, and it is a lot more painful than a mosquito bite. yellowjacket seems to be an American term. I had to look it up. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowjacket https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowjacket
    • the_af 2y ago
      Don't get me wrong, I hate mosquitoes and don't like being stung (both because of dengue fever risks in the case of aedes, and because it itches a lot afterwards), but I never find their bite painful. I suppose it depends on the kind of mosquito? I do know -- cause I've been bitten -- that horseflies hurt like hell, because their mouth parts have evolved to pierce cattle skin! "Yellowjacket" is the translation I found for a kind of wasp we have in Argentina's Patagonia, where we call them "chaquetas" (Spanish for jackets). I think they might be imports and not native though, but now they are very frequent in our region.