Stings!
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How many of us have suffered significant insect stings?
Personally, none, apart from, odd mossie and Scottish mudge, touch monkey!
But some folk (Mrs B for one) are paranoid about wasps, hornets etc, which I am sure can inflict a painful sting, but I don’t personally know anyone who has suffered except two very old guys, 80 odd, one stung by a scorpion, the other by one of the ‘orrible centipedes in Portugal donkeys years ago
Have you any personal experience?
30 years ago, in Scunthorpe at the time, my wife was stung by a wasp and her hand swelled up like buggery. Had to get medical help for her. Other than that no problems. Touch wood!!!
Have the same problem with Wasp’s, make sure your wife carries anti histamine with her when she’s out and about.
Horse fly stings do horrible things to me, as do wasp stings (similarly to Mrs. BE) and I always get bitten to death by any insect within my vicinity and Mr. F can be in the same vicinity and never gets one! Mind you he did suffer a really bad night of agony when he disturbed a sleeping hornet whilst removing the undergrowth from the ruin walls of our first abode, which took exception and stung him and the blooming thing kept coming back and dive bombing him after! He felt the pain going up his arm and under his armpit! (Mr F that is not the hornet!!)
Forgot the Horsey jobs F, I was ‘got’ a few times in Portugal
nasty.That sounds sore, ouch.
Thats when the hornets worry me when they are drowsy, when they are active, at least they are ‘noisy’, and I can give them a dose of Super U “Cobra” brilliant spray, (flies drink it), but Hornets and Wasps, immediate knock down.
We put traps in the garden, made from empty plastic bottles, very effective, get a few of the Asian jobs too, no bees happily, maybe fear of the nasties keeps them out
I had a very nasty spider bite 2 years ago, at the back of my upper left arm. My arm was twice the size and the pain was horrendous. My arm felt really heavy to lift too. I didn’t see it happen but went to the doctor when it became a real concern and he confirmed that it was a spider bite. We live on the Finistere coast so don’t think it’s a common problem here so no idea how it happened. I didn’t like spiders before but I am now terrified of them.
Marie, whenever there was a large spider in our house, visiting! I used to yell for my husband to rescue me from it! He used to pick them up very gently and take them outside that was until he was bitten twice for doing the same thing. We now try to encourage them into a jam jar with a piece of card, not easy! 🕷
Marie my wifes ex was bitten by one when they lived in Normandy Very sore, we have the same ones here in Morbihan, they have a prominant white cross on their back, unfortunately, quite common, like you I am not lover of Arichnids
The funny (not) thing is, whilst your watching the tv and out of the corner of your eye, you see one doing the 800 metres straight towards you like runner in a race!
I was standing with a mate watching a baseball game, on the telly in a bar in Tortola BVI, when I looked down and sitting on his foot was a HUGE tarantula, when I quietly drew his attention to it, never seen anyone demonstrate reflexes, like wott he did
Hilarious! Bill you have got loads of these little stories you could write up for us. I would have done the 800 metres if that had been me!🕷
It’s when you see a spider and then the next time you look 5 seconds later, it’s gone! Also, we had a massive spider in our dining room on the beam. We got rid of that one and a couple of weeks later, I can only describe as it’s mate appeared, also in the dining room. Where had they been living these last few years? Beats me!
We have the kitchen door open all day, (with a bead flyscreen) but I don’t think the spiders are impressed by it, unfortunately
It was VERY funny BV, not my foot
Mind you, some French friends said if you have spiders, you have a clean house! I thought it was! He he !
Mrs B hasn’t heard that one BV, but she is reassured as we have no shortage of them
Yes Mr F was bitten by a spider, it was a short stubby narrow black one, small with a hefty bite!
I think quite a few innocent looking ones, small, can transmit an irritating amount of venom.
Little buggletts
A work colleague and his wife holidayed in a converted barn in England. His wife ( terrified by spiders) saw one in the rafters and wouldn’t get into bed before he fettled it. He threw a shoe at it which promply got jammed up in the roof. A most embarrassed hubbie had to ask for some ladders next morning!
When I was about 10, my older brother and his mate decided to borrow Dads car and go camping in the Galloway hills, SW Scotland, a condition of using Dads car, was that they took me along.
Only lasted one night, we were eaten by savage, man eating Scottish Midgies.
“They love nothing more than English tourists in kilts, they eat the tops off their socks”, along with other ‘bits’.
We were not wearing kilts, but Bro’ had to go and buy a packet of fags and he and his mate spent the night puffing away (and coughing) to keep the tent full of ‘Midge Deterrent’.
Bill I’ve heard some excuses for smoking, but that one is the best!
Eranu, I’ve not heard that word ‘fettled’ for a long while!
nasty.
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