Blog number ONE HUNDRED! July 21, 2007
I think I got stung by a scorpion yesterday, maybe by two. I reached into a patch of dichondra (a lawn "grass"), pulling long stemmed thistles, and I felt two sharp "zings" on my thumb. Both zings occurred at the same time.
The stings were not from the thistles, as I was pulling them with my bare hands, so I know what those felt like. I always just ignore them. They are like a rough patch of wood or something. These were more like a bee sting, only very much less pain - which is exactly the description I once read of a scorpion sting years ago. Now, there is a scorpion, the "Black Scorpion," I think it is called, that emits a much more powerful hurt. But most species give this low-powered "bee sting."
I had two tiny red dots on my thumb, spaced like a rattlesnake bite. So maybe it was that. Just kidding.
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