On a little ride yesterday, one of the descents RUINED by this massive pain in my leg, a nettle sting multiplied by a biolliontrilion!! Hit me just below the short line on the side of me leg.
Wasn’t any super-mega nettles around, and no cobras in the region!
2 red pinprick marks doesn’t look like they pierced the skin. Itches now 😥
Any ideas what it could’ve been?

Bolivian Beavermoth caterpillar

adder

Don’t google Adder bite.

A perchypanther. Filthy wee bastards, carry all sorts of horrible bugs.

A perchypanther. Filthy wee bastards, carry all sorts of horrible bugs.

😆
Nope. I’d have taken the whole leg.

Tiny vampire by the look of it.

Conjoined twin clegs most likely.

If defo agree with clegs.

That’s a Spideroid bite.

Either that or 2 Horseflies at once.

Clegs??!

No idea what it was but all I see is the Cookie Monster

Clegs

Was it foggy? Maybe you could claim compo?

Maybe you could claim compo?

you have to be batty.

Snake bite.

As in drink that, to dull the pain…

Cleg fly – Jaws like saws! Google image search cleg bite.

Horsefly/Cleg, same thing. I was once in some woods round Glenn Affric, riding along minding my own business when YOUCH!! I thought I’d been stabbed in the arm, looked to see a Cleg sucking my blood at a pint a minute. It died a squashy death & I itched for a week.

& like midges, it’s the women who bite.

Hogweed bonking beetle

This is very helpful!

Don’t google Adder bite
ERUGH! Tony Robinson! looks like I dodged a bullet there!

Cleg fly – Jaws like saws! Google image search cleg bite.

Ah, that’s what got me a few weeks ago and I was wondering what could have done it. I had about 10 of these bites dotted around my body – very, very itchy….

Ah yes, some of the horsefly pics are hideous! But some are very similar. I’m sure I’ve been bitten by one of those before and it was nowhere near as painful. Maybe I was less of a wuss back then 8)

It could have bitten something else first though and now you have a nasty bacterial infection inside you ticking away like a time bomb.

A Tiger.

Ugly critters them clegs.

Place of ride??

Was it foggy? Maybe you could claim compo?

Loving your work, Perchy.

(can’t see the photo, BTW)

A cleg bite tends to harden and stays for a few days, can also be sore.

Speaking from experience after getting bitten on my head whilst taking a leak…that was proper uncomfortable for a week!

As above, clegg bites leave a hard lump under the skin and itch like buggery, you’d know pretty sharpish if an adder bit you as headaches/nausea soon follow (well it did for me on all the times i’ve been struck by them)

I received a nasty bite on Thursday morning. By Friday it looked like a had a knee cap on the back of my thigh.
The swelling went down but it’s still a little itchy and bruised.

baby robin?

I received a nasty bite on Thursday morning. By Friday it looked like a had a knee cap on the back of my thigh.
The swelling went down but it’s still a little itchy and bruised.

Last time that happened to me I had to pay extra for it.

Mutant daddy long legs, quick, go find the antidote! 😉

clegg bites leave a hard lump under the skin and itch like buggery

Take your word for the itching 😉
Not really a hard lump now, just red with the 2 red spots. Luckily it didn’t itch as much last night as it is now.

Was it these?

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/boys-horror-after-feet-were-10943744

Baby Robin

Ok…

glasgowdan –
Was it these?

Ooh nasty! No it wasn’t, happily!