Red Ring Tupperware Party, Autumnal Equinoctal Edition (24)

I agree with Dan, excellent hummers.

Nice close up! On my screen the colors are just amazing! I wish we had humming birds here. Must put up the feeders.

Where is here? Hummers pretty much cover the country at some time or another. Back in Chicago we would get them in the summer. They favored our butterfly bushes and once we saw one, we would put up a feeder and they pretty much hung around the rest of the summer.

Well, after killing hundreds of Bark scorpions over the past several years, one finally got me before I got him. My finger hurts.

Hope it's not your "shutter finger" Moose!

yeah, scorpions?

i'll stick to the snow...

Ian Mackie wrote in post #17472698
Hope it's not your "shutter finger" Moose!

Nah. Middle finger. And it's not all that bad. Still hurts a little at the sting site, and the rest of my finger is kinda numb and tingly. I don't think I got a full dose. My neighbor got stung on the foot, and he said the pain went all the way up to his knee and lasted for 24 hours. He said he had never felt anything like it.

Luckily, scorpion stings don't destroy tissue like some spider bites; it's a nerve thing.

LV Moose wrote in post #17473142
Nah. Middle finger. And it's not all that bad. Still hurts a little at the sting site, and the rest of my finger is kinda numb and tingly. I don't think I got a full dose. My neighbor got stung on the foot, and he said the pain went all the way up to his knee and lasted for 24 hours. He said he had never felt anything like it.

Luckily, scorpion stings don't destroy tissue like some spider bites; it's a nerve thing.

no bird flipping from you then...

Still works. Just now tried it out, aimed at no one in particular.

LV Moose wrote in post #17473142
Nah. Middle finger. And it's not all that bad. Still hurts a little at the sting site, and the rest of my finger is kinda numb and tingly. I don't think I got a full dose. My neighbor got stung on the foot, and he said the pain went all the way up to his knee and lasted for 24 hours. He said he had never felt anything like it.

Luckily, scorpion stings don't destroy tissue like some spider bites; it's a nerve thing.

I've been bit by spiders (Wolf and centipede), wasps (too many to count) bees (same) one scorpion, snake, dogs, cat, mice, tick, flea, crab, turtle, several fish, and fire ants. Of all those fire ants are the worst. Their bite is almost unnoticeable at least for several second. But when the burn starts, it burns really bad and for a freaking month or two. It just doesn't go away. Fire ant bites are the absolute worst.

My experience with fire ants. When I was first stationed at Austin, TX, we spent our first night in temporary quarters on the base (Bergstrom). I was tired that night and just threw my pants on the floor. The next morning I got up in the dark so as not to wake the wife and kids, and put my pants on. Before I knew it, I was burning from my feet to my waist. Pulled of my pants and flipped on the light; the floor in the area where my pants were was covered in fire ants, as were my pants. I had hundreds of bites (stings really) all over, including my crotch. Oi Vay!

LV Moose wrote in post #17473212
My experience with fire ants. When I was first stationed at Austin, TX, we spent our first night in temporary quarters on the base (Bergstrom). I was tired that night and just threw my pants on the floor. The next morning I got up in the dark so as not to wake the wife and kids, and put my pants on. Before I knew it, I was burning from my feet to my waist. Pulled of my pants and flipped on the light; the floor in the area where my pants were was covered in fire ants, as were my pants. I had hundreds of bites (stings really) all over, including my crotch. Oi Vay!

O!U!C!H!!!!!!!!!

Good times

I'll take year round blizzards over scorpions!!

Creepy crawlies don't really bother me, except for scorpions and earwigs. Fortunately we don't have scorpions here, but we do get plenty of earwigs. I get lots of pleasure out of making them suffer tragic, painful, slow deaths.

I haven't been bitten/stung by many different creatures, but I sure don't want to add to the list! Wasp/hornet/bee/yellow jacket stings were the norm when we were kids. It's a different story now though, as I have Large Local Reactions to stings. It's not life threatening, but it's painful. When I got a wasp sting on my finger, my arm swelled up to my elbow. A yellow jacket sting on my stomach was bruised for six weeks. And last fall when I got a yellow jacket sting inside my mouth, my cheek/gums/jaw/neck was swollen for weeks, despite taking a heavy dose of antihistamines right away.

The most wide spread sting that I've had was from a jellyfish. Was in the Black Sea, swimming forward with friends, when we ran into a group of jellies. One hit my shoulder, stinging my right arm/neck/shoulder/ches​t/side. I rolled over onto my back, trying to get away from it, and it got my left hip and thigh. That was a sickening pain. Skin felt like it was on fire, but not just on the surface, it burned deep. Constant, steady, deep burning that stabbed you if you tried to move.

Oh yea, forgot to add jellyfish to my list. I stepped on one while walking the beach at Jeykll Island. It was covered in sand and I though it was just a lump of sand. Even washed up on shore, it stung.