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charisstomaToday is my mother's 89th birthday. She has as many marbles as she did before but she plays with them a little differently now. Age will do that.
Today after walking through the overgrown area that is the walkway from the front door I picked up a passenger. I didn't know that the passenger was there until I felt a stabbing pain on the body side part of my upper arm. Pulling the green 1.5 cm. bug with striped legs off me and crunched it before throwing its dying body out the window where I hope some bird ate it, waste not. It hurt like someone has stuck a thick pin into me and left a not small red spot that did the raise bump that bites do. The pain stayed for longer than it should for a normal bug bite.
Looked the thing up. And though my son insists that it was defending itself because my arm was squishing it, the bug's name says otherwise. Zelus tetracanthus, probably, though the nymph stage photo was species, the striped legs match the adult. Assassin Bug. And I'm not the first person bitten by one. Some of these prey on small mammals. The one that spiked me, obviously had larger ambitions.
Today after walking through the overgrown area that is the walkway from the front door I picked up a passenger. I didn't know that the passenger was there until I felt a stabbing pain on the body side part of my upper arm. Pulling the green 1.5 cm. bug with striped legs off me and crunched it before throwing its dying body out the window where I hope some bird ate it, waste not. It hurt like someone has stuck a thick pin into me and left a not small red spot that did the raise bump that bites do. The pain stayed for longer than it should for a normal bug bite.
Looked the thing up. And though my son insists that it was defending itself because my arm was squishing it, the bug's name says otherwise. Zelus tetracanthus, probably, though the nymph stage photo was species, the striped legs match the adult. Assassin Bug. And I'm not the first person bitten by one. Some of these prey on small mammals. The one that spiked me, obviously had larger ambitions.
