[Closed] What bit me??

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

[i]Clegs[/i]
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Was it foggy? Maybe you could claim compo?

[i]Maybe you could claim compo? [/i]

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!

[i]Don't google Adder bite[/i]
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....

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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.

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A Tiger.

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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! 😉

[i]clegg bites leave a hard lump under the skin and itch like buggery[/i]

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?

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

Baby Robin

Ok...

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glasgowdan -
Was it these?

Ooh nasty! No it wasn't, happily!

Horse fly bites - I swear the little beggars have teeth. I do seem to react to them, and end up with a hand-size hot swollen area (no, not [b][i]that[/b][/i] area) which then develops a lovely watery blister in the centre. And the itching of course...
An ice pack helps - for a little while.

Could have been a wasp, I had one catch under the pushed up sleeve of my riding shirt in France, bastard stung me repeatedly until I flicked the sleeve up and it flew off, and another stung me twice on my leg when I stopped right by a nest by the side of a track.

Could have been a wasp

Apologies for going off topic but why are wasps so **** angry all the time?, why can't they be more like their Bee brothers who are remarkably more chilled. For example i was clearing an overgrown section of trail t'day with a billhook then a rake/hoe over the surface but i appeared to have disturbed a bumblebee commune so i moved that trail section away from the bee's area and went back to collect the bees i had disturbed, they were perfectly happy to climb onto my hand then i placed them on the large tree trunk i was trying to build a trail around - at one point i had 11 bees drinking Dr Pepper that i poured over the trunk and i imagined them to be my miniature army as whenever i moved my arm near to them they would all raise their front right leg and salute me in a mexican wave as i passed my hand along the trunk, to be perfectly honest this genuinely gave me the shit's n' giggles for quite some time and i entertained myself for a full 500ml thermos flask as i sat on the trunk with them to drink my brew and have a joint whilst occasionally proclaiming inane woodland laws as my minions to my left raised their arms in agreement to second the motion.

There is no way that wasps would entertain such an occasion - If you disturbed their nest they'd sting your eyes till you go blind and leave you sprinting round the forest till you finally knock yourself out running headfirst into a tree, then the angry little bastards would steal your phone, wallet and car keys.

Apologies for going off topic but why are wasps so **** angry all the time?,

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And, re the baby robin...

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Jeez, CFH. Surely even you're bored posting the same ol' shit over and over and over...

However, this...

at one point i had 11 bees drinking Dr Pepper that i poured over the trunk and i imagined them to be my miniature army as whenever i moved my arm near to them they would all raise their front right leg and salute me in a mexican wave as i passed my hand along the trunk, to be perfectly honest this genuinely gave me the shit's n' giggles for quite some time and i entertained myself for a full 500ml thermos flask as i sat on the trunk with them to drink my brew and have a joint whilst occasionally proclaiming inane woodland laws as my minions to my left raised their arms in agreement to second the motion.

...is hilarious. Excellent tale!

Teasel, please accept a full refund.

C'mon, man, be original. You know you can do it if you put your back into it.

All this regurgitated stuff is, well, just regurgitated and really isn't all that funny.

The internet deserves better...

It really doesn't!

🙂

Agreed

There is something about Horse Flies this year! I was bitten once in my 38 years until this year. So far this year I have been bitten 4 times already. Once on the windpipe which was horrible.

Got bitten Saturday on my index finger and my hand was swollen the next morning! Bite was exactly as the OP described with two little bite marks.

I've had a few horsefly bites this year, mostly while on a biking weekend on Long Mynd where there are also horses! They can easily bite through a cycling jersey or Lycra shorts.
Mr Pea got 3 horsefly bites on his bum cheek!

See what time my last post was, there ^^ Itching kept me awake 🙁