Journal archives for February 2014

February 5, 2014

Being Bitten

I have been keeping track of what general types of creatures by which I have been bitten (or the equivalent for those without biting mouthparts) since coming to California in June 2013! I like being bitten, you see; it is interesting, often a new experience for each new set of mouthparts (no masochism is involved). Here is the current list, which I will keep updating as it grows (last updated 22 February 2019):

Jerusalem cricket
chicken
various ants
cat
snail
goose
goat
cockroach
pillbug
house fly (and various other harmless flies, probably, which would be too much trouble to count individually)
lacewing (larva)
mantis
bedbug
squirrel
mosquito
sea star
rabbit
earwig
shield bug
millipede
thrips
yellow jacket wasp
aquatic leech
silverfish
scrub-jay
lady beetle
treehopper
sea anemone
sea urchin
horse
guppy
webspinner
solifugid
snakefly (adult and larva)
fishfly (larva and adult)
dragonfly
sawfly
longhorn beetle
ground beetle
backswimmer
snipe fly
horse fly
leafhopper
boa
parrot
duckling
bark-gnawing beetle
harvestman
giant water bug

While in Indonesia in June-August 2015:
mosquito
cricket
dragonfly
gecko
trapjaw ant (fastest movement in known biology)
weaver ant
longhorn beetle
tiger beetle
mantis
anemonefish
various harmless flies

In Peru in December-January 2016-2017:
human
cockroach
dog
grasshopper
black fly
mosquito
macaw
katydid (one predatory and STRONG, others herbivorous)
weevil
cicada
leafhopper
stingless bees (licking for sweat only)
paper wasp
sand fly
bess beetle
chigger mite
tick
black ants
various flies (of course)

At the Mexico City airport:
doctor fish

Total (distinct): 68

I have been stung by:
bee (non-apidae)
velvet ant
backswimmer
trap-jaw ant
bullet ant
stinging nettle
giant water bug
(previously: carpenter/bumble bee, yellow jacket, fire ants)

In Taiwan in January 2019, I got punched in the glove by a mantis shrimp.

Posted on February 5, 2014 04:19 AM by eccentric_entomophile eccentric_entomophile | 3 comments | Leave a comment