What's the worst sting or bite you've ever had?

[bottlenose301]

I've been stung by jellyfish, wasps, bumble bees, and bitten by spiders (not big huge ones), red ants, mosquitos and those bitey flies. Oh and the odd cats and dogs.

For me the worst by far was the bumblebee. I put my hand on it not seeing it there and it hurt sooooooo much. Like my hand was on fire or something. I don't really remember completely what the actual pain felt like that as it was years ago but I do remember that it hurt like nothing else and for ages too. Poor thing didn't even mean to sting me, I put my hand on it!

Jellyfish did hurt but not agony - it was only one of those small ones you get. (In France)

Red ants can hurt and itch like mad too.

What's the most painful bite or sting you've ever had?

I've only ever been stung by bees. Once on holiday in Spain when one crawled into my shoe and the other when I stood on one in the garden when I was pegging they washing out in bare feet.

Weeverfish.
I barely brushed it with my fingers. It was extremely painful and my hand swelled so much that I could not flex my fingers.
I was a teenager. My parents decided I did not need medical attention because they did not want to leave the beach

Weever fish- omfg that was unbelievable, so fucking painful. I could still feel pain about 6months later if I pushed on that area!

Reaction wise - horsefly

Mango Fly.
Actual maggots.

I don't react to bites and stings really but DH does. He had what we think was a horsefly bite on his calf while mowing the lawn, over the next day his leg swelled and stiffened to the point where he couldn't walk on it. Cellulitis meant strong antibiotics, he also needed hydrocortisone injection to calm it down and max doses of antihistamine for days and days and days.

He wears long trousers to mow now.

@toilenstripes - weirdly I also had one of the worst mosquito bites of my life in Bruges. We had got to our hotel in the afternoon after a long drive so took a nice nap with the window open - woke up to an instantly swollen finger and within an afternoon my whole hand had swelled 😢

But worst will always be horsefly bites. Thankfully our neighbours have moved their horses to a different village so I haven’t had any for a few years but still nervous in the suknee after one stung me thro my top

@ComeOnGordon Same here! I wonder if the canals make them particularly virulent. I remember being charmed by having hotel windows that opened directly on to a canal, until I woke up covered with bites.

Weever fish. Never felt pain like it.

I am ALWAYS being bitten. Every time at least one of the frigging things swells up to at least the size of my palm. I am currently sporting a delightful enormous fluid-filled blister on my knee from one of them. Worst was probably when I got bitten by something that looked like a horse fly in Austria. My ankle swelled up so much I couldn't move it and the pain kept waking me up at night.

I was more shocked that you could get scorpions in Greece!

You get them in the UK too.

I react to most bites, I also seem to have 'sweet blood', a friend who started life in Jamaica says it's the food, according to her eating the local food will put the bitey fuckers off.

I'm not so sure, I spent two weeks in Mauritius and was bitten to hell, the guy I'd gone with stayed for an extra week (we were staying with his family so eating local food) in the same bed, under the same mosquito net and that week he got bitten.

Most painful and itchy - whatever bites me in the garden, the scars last years.

Mosy Yucky - I had a zit developing and a mozzy decided that was the perfect place to bit - it would have satisfied all in sporner corner, it literally hit the mirror.

I haven't had a really bad bite but I have been stung by a bee which was sore. My dd seems to attract mosquitoes like anything and she got bitten all over sitting in the garden with friends, the friends were barely touched. She counted the bites and it was over 100. Luckily they did not get infected but she was itchy for a week.

God I’m so scared of horse flies. And what the hell is that tree sap?? Sounds like something out of a horror movie. Blisters unfolding into blisters.

@Purplewithred

Scariest was the wasp I swallowed - I did wonder why the twig in my smoothie was wriggling in my mouth. Luckily I realised and tried to spit it out so it only stung my tongue, not my throat.

DS fell into a bed of stinging nettles when he was 2; he was naked at the time. Everything else pales beside that. Luckily he can't remember it.

My aunt swallowed a wasp! It had crawled into a glass of orange juice she left on a window still, it stung her in the throat on the way down 😖

She had to go A&E but was ok after a while. Horrible though!

Fascinating fact: Weever fish venom has the same protein in the toxin as rattlesnake, but a much lower concentration, which is why it doesn't kill.

Wasp sting on my wrist when I was a child.We were on a uk beach and everyone was staring at me screaming

I got stung by a wasp on my left hand some years ago and my husband had to cut my wedding ring off as my finger was so swollen it was cutting my circulation off.
Then last year on holiday in France we all got bitten all over by some kind of mosquito type thing and it ruined the entire holiday. I still have marks from some of the bites over a year later.

@bottlenose301

I nearly stepped on a scorpion once too in Greece. It was tiny but still scared the crap out of me! I was more shocked that you could get scorpions in Greece!

@bottlenose301 We have scorpions in the UK too! 🦂

Hornets the worst, found a nest and got stung a few times including on my face which swelled up a lot.

We do have scorpions in the UK, but mostly only in discrete locations where they have escaped and it's warm enough to survive winter.

Whereabouts in the U.K.? Oh gosh I'm off to google lol !

Round London, mostly. The main colony is the Isle of Sheppey, I think.

Ah okay thanks, can't believe I didn't know that!

I didn’t know we had scorpions in the uk either.
Mine in a bumblebee. Hurt like hell.

Also has anyone seen on You Tube where the fella deliberately stings himself with all kinds of weird and dangerous insects.
I think it’s called Brave something.

OMG, I am positively shivering here! I am absolutely terrified of anything with a black and yellow stripey jacket. Thank God none have ever managed to catch me as yet. 🙏🙏🙏

Worst I have experienced so far - sandfly bites on Antigua! The itching was unbelievable! I had about 15 all over my body and had to fly home with them in full throttle. The other passengers must have thought I was lousy. 😂 Thankfully DH and I were sat by ourselves!

A wasp sting on the inside of my throat. Thank goodness it was a wasp, not a bee, so it didn't leave the 'sting' in there. That was a bit of a worry, seeing as how if it had swollen up much more, my breathing could have been cut off.

Oh, and when DH accidentally broke open a wasp's nest, and they all flew around him, and stung me, around 20-30 times.

I am now really needing to keep an epi-pen near by, because my reactions have got worse with every single sting.