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Bug Bites

I've been stung/bitten by mosquitoes, ants (fire, black), horseflies, bees, wasps, fleas, tics, and spiders. Fun stuff. (I've also been stung by jellyfish, and even though they aren't bugs, it hurts just as much.)

When I was three, I was on a tire swing or something and this swarm of bees comes out of nowhere and they sting everywhere possible. And another time I guess a spider got into my bed and killed my legs and ughh they itched so much.
 
I steer clear from insects as much as possible, and I tend to be quite effective at it.

Mosquitoes are just unavoidable, though, especially in the Hot 'n Humid South. Still, nothing was quite as bad as the two weeks I spent in Puerto Rico back when I was seven. Counted no less than sixty bites all over when I got back.
 
What really frustrates me about bug bites is I usually get them while inside. My dad, as intelligent as he is, always leaves the window open in the office (use your own computer Dad >:[ ) over night. I'll be the first to come downstairs, and there will always be a mosquito in here. I just have two on my arm and one from actually being outside on my ankle.

And spiders. Being arachnophobic is bad enough, but they always get into my bed and bite me on the foot. Once I got one on my ear though. And I remembered it happening. Euch, that freaked me out.
 
Goddamn O blood type. Mosquitoes love me to lumpy, itchy bits. Whenever I take a night walk with my family, I'm the only one to return with bites.

So far as I know I've only been bitten by mosquitoes, but recently I got one on my right knee that got infected. ): Terribly itchy and hot and it was just generally scary. Apparently the mosquito crawled up my leg, though, because I got three similar bites on my thigh, though they didn't get infected.
 
I do recall getting bitten once by a biting fly and thinking for a week afterward that there would be maggots in my skin. Not fun.
 
Cap'n Sofa said:
Any of you people O blood type? Mosquitoes can smell blood from a distance and love O.

From my personal experiences only, not scientifically, I guess they also love A. Damned mosquitoes everywhere. They're the only bugs that really bite me, there aren't many spiders around here that bite unprovoked. I usually just put calamine lotion or something on the bites and they itch less.

Oh, uh, worst place? Well, legs, but that was only worst because there were freaking clusters of them one time, like 12 on each leg.

Worst time-to-bite ratio I ever had was accruing seven bites after doing some fireworks outside for like 10 minutes.
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I'm O- D= I hate mosquitoes...

One time at Band Camp...(how all great stories start) I got a bite on the side OF MY EYELID. Keynote: Bites on me swell up to the size of Half-dollars. My right eye was swollen shut for 2 weeks =C
 
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feel the love bro

Mosquitoes are everywhere, I hate camping just because of that. BUT I found out that licking the bite immediately and then blowing gently relieves the itching and usually it just goes away in a matter of two-three hours.

weird isn't it
 
THE WORST:

You wake up in your tent and suddenly hear an accursed eeeeeEEEEEeeeeee going past your ear. You see the mosquito and squish it (feeling a little guilty because you're a vegetarian and meant to be a friend to all animals) and suddenly there's red goo everywhere and you know, with a twist of disgust in your stomach, that the blood now all over your finger/the tent lining came from your own body, when the mosquito sucked from you while you were sleeping.
 
I've got absolutely no idea about my blood type, but mosquitoes definitely think my blood tastes good. The European ones seem to love my face (including the space around my eyes. Hello, swelling and pain!) and arms, while the American ones prefer my legs.

At the moment I can only count two, but I have been sitting in my room with the windows closed most of the summer.
 
Oh God. Once you go into my garden, camping in a forest in the middle of nowhere doesn't seem that bad. The worst one I've had would have to be when a mosquito bit the side of my head where there's a hole, on a vertical level just above my eyes. It gave me a lasting headache for a few days.

Tip: use a ball-point pen and draw a circle around the mosquito bite. It works.
 
I just went to resident camp with no bug spray. I have something like thirty bug bites, all over my body. They itch so bad. They're in little clusters, too. I'll get like three all next to each other. Anyway, the worst ones are on my feet because they itch the most. It's also really sucky having something like ten bites on my head. -_-
 
Ack, mine multiplied over the weekend. Worst thing ever, bites in between your toes and you're wearing military style boots... Yeah, this is torture.
 
Oh god mosquitos are the worst invention ever.

So, I get mosquito bites a lot, and I once got one that was on my anus and it totally sucked. I also once got I spider bite on my hip, but it wasn't bad at all. I hardly ever noticed it was there.

Also, I went camping recently, and I got well over twenty mosquito bites on my ankles alone. You couldn't poke one without making like five of them itch.

Oddly enough, I've never been stung by a bee or wasp, although I am absolutely terrified of them and I swear they are out for my blood. They hunt me down and dive bomb me.
 
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