What the heck bit me at the beach?

[ShallowsNole]

TFT, I have no idea what bit you, but Skunky's right about scorpions. And from sticking my hand in a paper grocery sack that had been stored under my mom's kitchen sink, I can tell you they hurt like hail.

Scorpions like pine trees. We had problems with them when we moved to Freeport. We cleared the pine trees from our lot (for different reasons - ie to keep one from coming through the window in a hurricane and so as not to attract lightning) and the scorpions went away.

Didn't make the rattlesnakes go away, but at least the scorpions were gone. :roll:

 

[Cheering472]

ICK. I am sorry you were bitten. Hope it feels better. Repellant all around for everyone. Heck I'm starting to itch here at my computer just hearing about all those creatures.

 

[Andy A]

Is there any chance it could have been a brown recluse spider? The way you describe the reaction to the bite sure sounds like it could have been one but then I don't know their habitat habits.

 

[Mango]

Is there any chance it could have been a brown recluse spider? The way you describe the reaction to the bite sure sounds like it could have been one but then I don't know their habitat habits.

Oh gosh, I hope not. Whatever you do, do not google images of that spider.

Hope you feel better soon and if it does get worse, get medical attention.

 

[Rita]

Is there any chance it could have been a brown recluse spider? The way you describe the reaction to the bite sure sounds like it could have been one but then I don't know their habitat habits.

Wouldn't be a likely habitat for the Brown Recluse. It prefers darker places like in basements for example. I remember seeing the "shells" of Brown Recluses in the basement of a home in Illinois. We took a trip to see them in a college entomology course. The empty shell just looks like a tan spider hanging there.

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[TooFarTampa]

Oh gosh, I hope not. Whatever you do, do not google images of that spider.
Hope you feel better soon and if it does get worse, get medical attention.

Well, of course I did, and eww. But no that wasn't it. It was very compact.

Whatever it was, the bite was much better yesterday and is almost all better today. I'm glad to know that whatever it was doesn't seem to be common, so maybe it was just bad luck and not something that I need to worry about every time I set foot on the beach.

We'll be on the lookout for antlions and will make sure to bring the repellant. Thanks all.

 

[Matt J]

Small remnant of a jellyfish?

 

[Mike Jones]

Small remnant of a jellyfish?

Good possibility for sting or bite from something on the beach.