Black or Brown Ants Bite
The most ironic thing happened to me.
I found this little guy in the middle of my kitchen.
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As you can probably see, grandmother spider isn't so little. Somehow, even this picture doesn't capture how big she was! Just as big as a wolf spider, but definitely NOT a wolf spider. Wolf spiders, for example, are hairy. And .. thicker. This little lady's legs were actually quite long and slim!
I adore spiders. More than anything. I'll ruin a friendship doing something violent if I see someone squish them. Makes me very, very upset. Actually, I sort of dropped a girlfriend for telling me about killing a spider.
Anyways, the point is, I had to very gently collect this guy in a jar (definitely an adventure of itself) and tote him outside. It was a warm enough day that he took off right away.
I went back inside, quite relieved to have taken him outside without any damage done to him or me.
And then, I felt it. A sharp, stinging pain on my right ankle. FUCK! This was a distinct pain, one that I've felt many, many times before. A spider bite, you say? Oh no. Nothing like that.
Your Mistress, pets, is allergic to ANTS. I guess normal people get bitten by ants all the time and don't even notice. Formic acid in ant bites, however, makes me swell up a welt as big as a balloon.
This was a tiny brown ant, small as the head of a pin. And he was viciously, VORACIOUSLY snipping into my ankle.
I quickly ran to put baking soda on the wound, and that helped a lot. It still looks pretty gross though. =(
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And it's kept me awake for hours itching every night for two-three days!
You should've seen it before my friend told me about the baking soda cure. Whenever I got bit by one of the little monsters, it'd look like an infection. A big swollen hard mass, as wide as my hand, with wavy cellulite-like lines coming away from it in all directions. Like some sort of hideous alien THING.
Anyways, let your lesson for today be: Spiders are angels and ANTS ARE VICIOUS MOTHER FUCKERS, STAY AWAY FROM THEM.
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As you can probably see, grandmother spider isn't so little. Somehow, even this picture doesn't capture how big she was! Just as big as a wolf spider, but definitely NOT a wolf spider. Wolf spiders, for example, are hairy. And .. thicker. This little lady's legs were actually quite long and slim!
I adore spiders. More than anything. I'll ruin a friendship doing something violent if I see someone squish them. Makes me very, very upset. Actually, I sort of dropped a girlfriend for telling me about killing a spider.
Anyways, the point is, I had to very gently collect this guy in a jar (definitely an adventure of itself) and tote him outside. It was a warm enough day that he took off right away.
I went back inside, quite relieved to have taken him outside without any damage done to him or me.
And then, I felt it. A sharp, stinging pain on my right ankle. FUCK! This was a distinct pain, one that I've felt many, many times before. A spider bite, you say? Oh no. Nothing like that.
Your Mistress, pets, is allergic to ANTS. I guess normal people get bitten by ants all the time and don't even notice. Formic acid in ant bites, however, makes me swell up a welt as big as a balloon.
This was a tiny brown ant, small as the head of a pin. And he was viciously, VORACIOUSLY snipping into my ankle.
I quickly ran to put baking soda on the wound, and that helped a lot. It still looks pretty gross though. =(
[caption id="attachment_84" align="alignnone" width="267" caption="Black Ant Bite"][/caption]
And it's kept me awake for hours itching every night for two-three days!
You should've seen it before my friend told me about the baking soda cure. Whenever I got bit by one of the little monsters, it'd look like an infection. A big swollen hard mass, as wide as my hand, with wavy cellulite-like lines coming away from it in all directions. Like some sort of hideous alien THING.
Anyways, let your lesson for today be: Spiders are angels and ANTS ARE VICIOUS MOTHER FUCKERS, STAY AWAY FROM THEM. 
