• OutlierBlue@lemmy.caEnglish
    12·
    23 hours ago

    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!

    • Sidhean@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      19 hours ago

      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.

      • ebolapie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        18 hours ago

        Ah, but if we’re splitting hairs then we must consider that none of the wee beasties in the image are true bugs.

  • entwine413@lemm.eeEnglish
    23·
    1 day ago

    Don’t bedbugs typically bite in groups of 3s?

    Also, dermatitis should be on there since it’s often confused with bug bites.

  • shalafi@lemmy.worldEnglish
    17·
    1 day ago

    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!!!”

  • PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    11·
    1 day ago

    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

  • loomy@lemy.lolEnglish
    10·
    1 day ago

    had scorpion sting ; can confirm this accuracy.

    edit: it was more indented tho.

  • psud@aussie.zoneEnglish
    2·
    1 day ago

    “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)?

    • ebolapie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      18 hours ago

      They are quite similar, to the point that redbacks are sometimes called “Australian black widows” over here

    • remon@ani.socialEnglish
      1·
      18 hours ago

      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 :)

        • protist@mander.xyzEnglish
          8·
          1 day ago

          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