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To: nickcarraway

Interesting.

I’ve had a somewhat related experience: my first summer in Texas about a decade ago, I was stung by wasps, bees, hornets, etc. over 100 times. No idea why.

On the rare occasion I am stung anymore, I don’t even feel it. Well, except if I’m stung by a “tarantula hawk” wasp. Those still sting a bit. Not much, but a bit. (Note: that sting is considered the second most painful after the bullet ant, which is actually a wingless wasp. Never been tagged by one of those.)


7 posted on 12/22/2016 7:40:05 PM PST by piytar (http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-whittle-number-one-bullet)
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To: piytar

There may be a sugary quality to your blood, fat or skin that is similar to the pheromone given off by certain bees.


8 posted on 12/22/2016 7:50:38 PM PST by lee martell
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To: piytar

What the HELL kinds of insects you got down south?!


13 posted on 12/22/2016 8:11:17 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: piytar

Some of us have the opposite reaction. I approach shock from certain insect bites, and the inflammation is debilitating.

Lethal allergies can develop later in life without any indication. My wife developed a shellfish allergy at 50. Her symptoms appeared “overnight,” and I’m pretty sure she would die with any significant intake.


22 posted on 12/23/2016 4:45:59 AM PST by antidisestablishment ( We few, we happy few, we basket of deplorables)
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To: piytar

I was stung by a bald-faced hornet on the top of my foot almost ten years ago. Excruciating pain, my foot swelled so that I couldn’t fit it in a shoe and it turned blue with an infection that required 6 weeks of antibiotics. Vicious little creatures.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bald-faced_hornet

It followed me into the house, which is supposedly unusual.


27 posted on 12/23/2016 1:48:15 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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