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gnappi

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Stinging insect
« on: September 07, 2020, 09:08:58 AM »
Over two week I was stung in my palm by an insect I have never seen before. It was long, black, 3/4 of an inch long and 1/4 inch wide and wingless with a stinger at the rear 

The sting was like notning I ever experienced from a bee or wasp. It was like an electric shock followed by extreme itching for over a week  Any Ideas what it may have been?
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Re: Stinging insect
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2020, 10:24:43 AM »
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Re: Stinging insect
« Reply #2 on: September 07, 2020, 10:29:48 AM »
For it to be a hymenoptera and have a sting and be wingless there are not many options. there are wingless wasps.Not many ants are that big and sting that much and I ypu don't have bulldog ants over there.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myrmecia_(ant) Its enough to know some ants get big and sting to blazes.
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Re: Stinging insect
« Reply #3 on: September 07, 2020, 10:32:15 AM »
Some bugs can sting with their sucking tube mouthparts and some caterpillars eg cupmoth can sting severely.
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Re: Stinging insect
« Reply #4 on: September 07, 2020, 10:34:38 PM »
Quote from: MikeT on September 07, 2020, 10:32:15 AM
Some bugs can sting with their sucking tube mouthparts and some caterpillars eg cupmoth can sting severely.

Yeah my first thought was a black assassin bug ( black corsair/ Melanolestes picipes), but he said it had a visible stinger.
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Re: Stinging insect
« Reply #5 on: September 07, 2020, 10:44:57 PM »
If anyone gets stung by any insect. put wet baking soda on it as fast
as possible. Make a paste and apply and leave for 5 mintutes.
I use to carry a baggie full of it and a spoon when I went fishing or
hunting.
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Re: Stinging insect
« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2020, 10:55:15 PM »
A baggie full of white powder and a spoon?
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Re: Stinging insect
« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2020, 10:58:53 PM »
I was thinking, based on the description, of an earwig, but I was reading they usually just pinch, and your symptoms sounded like envenomation. Earwigs creep me out.
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Re: Stinging insect
« Reply #8 on: September 08, 2020, 04:45:47 PM »
Velvet ant / cow killer? Supposed to have a bad sting
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