Just got stung by a scorpion on the thigh. Little bugger was in my pants.

[panader0]

This'll be the fourth or fifth time, but that's not bad for forty years in SE Az. Usually a good sting followed
by a little numbness around the bite area and that's it. The things I'll do to get a little sympathy from Jeannie.

[hlthe2b]

1. I'm personally hoping my kindness towards removing spiders, rather than killing them will

buy me a little good karma from the occasional venomous species I find from time to time.

I don't see a lot of scorpions in Colorado, but the tarantulas are on their mating move! LOL

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/local-news/creepy-crawly-love-colorados-annual-tarantula-migration-has-begun
Creepy, crawly love: Colorado's annual tarantula 'migration' has begun

[Wicked Blue]

2. So glad I'm in Maryland

with the copperheads and frankenfish

[hlthe2b]

7. They are in the Southeast and Southwest of the state (fortunately not as far north as me)

but apparently, their migration has become a bit of a tourist attraction. !!!

[Harker]

9. There was one in my driveway in Loveland several years ago.

It was big enough to stand out as a USO (unidentified standing object) at about 75 ft distance, and I went to see what it was.

Quite a surprise.

[usonian]

4. Are you familiar with Tarantula Hawks?

Not a hawk but a wasp.

The Sierra Nevada foothills have them (well, my place is rampant with them)
Spoiler alert below (gruesome content)
My neighbor below the ridge was surprised at the vast number of them buzzing about here on the ridge.
MAYBE I AM JUST LUCKY!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantula_hawk




Spoiler:
A tarantula hawk is a spider wasp (Pompilidae) that preys on tarantulas. Tarantula hawks belong to any of the many species in the genera Pepsis and Hemipepsis. They are one of the largest parasitoid wasps, using their sting to paralyze their prey before dragging it to a brood nest as living food; a single egg is laid on the prey, hatching to a larva which eats the still-living prey. They are found on all continents other than Antarctica.

[hlthe2b]

6. Nope, new to me...

Pretty fascinating.

[padfun]

3. When I was growing up in Sierra Vista, we would go get scorpions from the fields.

There are lots of them and they are under rocks, twigs, etc...

My neighbor used to pay us for them.

[panader0]

10. I live ten miles south of Sierra Vista, off Moson Road.

Lots of rain this monsoon and due for two inches today and tomorrow.

[padfun]

21. I lived there in 1965-1973

Back then, Ft Huachuca wasn't a part of the city and it was mostly Fry and a big trailer park just past the Junction that was called Charlston Road. Population 6,000 or so. Then Ft Huachuca joined the city and the population doubled. I went to the old Buena before it was replaced with a car lot.

I don't think Moson Road existed back then, or at least have anything on it. There was Hereford Rd and Ramsey Canyon which did have some houses on it.
And Miracle Valley. Just WOW! On the other hand, Bisbee has to be one of the coolest towns around.
Since it is so close to the border, half the city was LEO of some type; Border Patrol, customs, and some military police if you were caught in the dud area.

It is a hidden gem and a good place to be. Lots of area's to explore around there. I still miss Parker Lake.

[House of Roberts]

5. Does Benadryl help when those sting?

The last wasp sting I got, I went four blocks to get some tablets and took one. Within an hour, I couldn't find the sting location on my ribs, and no further symptoms.

[panader0]

12. I don't do anything except kill the little bastard. No insects inside please.

Wasp or bee stings can be treated with wet tobacco--works quick.

[womanofthehills]

25. Urine or ammonia on the bite within the first minute

Lots of big ants on my rural property. Also 2 buffered vitamin C within the first few minutes. If you don’t have buffered C, drink some salt water or baking soda. Gem from my environmental Dr. It works.

Yrs ago in Mexico I was stung by a jellyfish while swimming in the ocean and the hotel clerk casually told me to pee on it. It helped big time so now I do it for all bites.

[mnhtnbb]

8. Did you leave your pants on the floor overnight?

Ouch.

My mom used to tell the story about traveling in Mexico before WW II. She was advised to always shake out her shoes before putting them on. One morning, she shook out a scorpion!

[panader0]

11. yes

[NBachers]

13. I'm glad it was only your thigh.

[PJMcK]

14. I got bitten by a spider

A few years ago I brought wood into the house for a fire. The next day I discovered an insect bite on my right hand. By the evening it had swollen to about 50% larger than normal. My heart rate increased and I had a 102º fever.

The ER doctor told me it was a brown dwarf spider bite. She gave me a couple of injections of antibiotics and within an hour my symptoms had diminished. The next morning I was back to normal.

Bug bites, snake bites and the like can be very dangerous. We are fragile creatures!

[2naSalit]

15. Try putting...

Some baking soda paste on it for faster relief.

[panader0]

17. There's no real pain, but I'm now numb from thigh to calf.

Like the poster above you, I'm glad it wasn't any higher on my leg, lol.

[2naSalit]

18. True, good thing it wasn't elsewhere!

The baking soda will neutralize the poison (acid based) and help pull it out of your flesh. The numbness should go away faster.

[Ilsa]

16. Yikes! The more I get exposed, the worse my immune reaction

becomes. A little poison ivy wasn't a problem until it happened a third time, at which point it started at my ankle and inflamed up my back in less than 24 hours.

I'm sorry for your pain. 🤢🥵

[panader0]

19. A friend's wife had bad reactions to poison ivy, so they bought a goat and staked it in the poison

ivy, then she drank the goat's milk and wasn't bothered anymore.

[Ilsa]

20. Wow. I can't do that where I live, but should consider something like it.

thanks!

[Ocelot II]

22. Maybe I'll try to find this thread in January

to remind myself of the reasons I like living in Minnesota - one of them being the lack of any venomous arthropods.

[samnsara]

23. i live in the mns in central wash state and we have scorpions here! little pale things

..but where i have seen them has been inside the house.. only two sightings in 25 years but in the very same spot. like they were teleported there lol

[Baggies]

24. Ouch!

[trof]

26. I sat on one bare-assed.

Ouch!
I was 10 in summer camp.

[whistler162]

27. Could be worse......

could have been an elephant in your pajamas!

[panader0]

28. What pajamas?

[Kali]

29. I smashed one on my bed before it could get me the other night.

cat jumped on me and woke me up, somehow in the dark saw it scuttle across the corner of the bed. smashed it with my phone.

4 or 5 times total? that is pretty normal for a summer around here.

how has your rain been? we are over 14 inches for the year now! it has been SO nice to have a good (almost average if you go by the old records) monsoon!

[panader0]

30. The old average was for the entire year. 16 or 17 total.

I'm not sure of my total this year, but we've had about ten or more since June. Very good
year for rain.
I was hoping the scorpion sting would give me powers like Spiderman got from his spider bite,
but no. The numbness is gone today. I was inches from being a numb nuts.

[Kali]

31. I have seen glow worms and SO many mushrooms this year

waiting for ticks and fleas but no problem so far. did you know about the water buffaloes? I bought one for a joke "gift" for my sister a couple of years ago and this spring found another. their pond has been full for months now and they are so happy.

[intrepidity]

32. Oof! Where were your pants?

As much as people like to disparage Crocs (the shoes), I have to say that white crocs, with all those holes, are a good idea in scorpion-land.

I've currently got a couple scorpions in a cage, awaiting release somewhere far from my house. They seem to like coming into my home. I think I've mostly desensitized myself to it; the most recent one didn't even get my heart rate up when I spotted it (on bathroom floor in middle of night) I keep a UV flashlight next to my bed for this purpose.

Thankfully, never been stung yet. Not looking forward to that near-inevitability.