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Nuts. I would have probably stuck with lab rats. I was bit by a brown recluse as a kid. The symptoms were nothing like this but it did create a large nasty loo
by jqm 12y ago
Nuts. I would have probably stuck with lab rats.
I was bit by a brown recluse as a kid. The symptoms were nothing like this but it did create a large nasty looking hole in my calf that seemed to grow for a couple of weeks rotting the flesh. It was unpleasant but not all that painful considering.
In addition to the recluse bite, I have been stung by bees, wasps, jellyfish and a scorpion but the worst was from nothing less than a caterpillar. It happened twice... two different kinds of caterpillars (the first one I put my hand on climbing a tree, the second I actually picked up). It was not to the level described in the article, but some of the same type symptoms appeared. My arm ached with horrible muscle pains, I felt symptoms throughout my body and I felt extremely ill for a day or so.
I was around 10 or 12 at the time, we had just moved to Florida and I was quite surprised to learn that some caterpillars stung. I don't live there anymore but am still extremely wary of caterpillars that have any fuzz or hair.
- plink 12y agoSo, because the old African-American entertainment of a cakewalk never gained the same eminence earned (deservedly) by jazz or tap, then it is to be considered racist and on par with a slur? The discussion over this matter seems itself to be an entertainment and a craven one.
- jqm 12y agoDisclaimer: My piece had nothing to do with race nor cakewalks, I have no idea what they have to do with anything, and you are replying to a deleted comment below....
- plink 12y agoNo kidding. I couldn't very well post to a deleted comment. In that matter I apologize to you. It was sort of like flyswatting a hologram.
- mc_hammer 12y agoweird - i got the same thing from a catapiller - i had no idea this was really a thing!
- harshreality 12y agoIn grade school, there was a tree we used to play near after school, and a fellow student cautioned several times about "asps" [asp caterpillars] around that tree. I never actually saw one, but he must have known about the things from somewhere else and had seen one in the vicinity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalopyge_opercularis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalopyge_opercularis From the description, I think of it like a venomous version of those fine-spined cacti often seen in miniature cactus arrangements.
- jqm 12y agoYes, one was very similar to that one in the link but whiter. The other was something like this http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/Portals/0/Gardening/Gardening%20Help/images/Pests/Caterpillars_Surface1224.jpg http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/Portals/0/Gardening/G... (you can see why I picked him up). These things are serious, at least they were for me. Worst animal trauma ever. I don't know if anyone has ever died from one but I think they should be more publicized.