How I got stung by a Mini-Cazador

As most of you know, I live in Las Vegas. Nevada. We usually don't get all the creepy-crawlies out here, except for the occasional sun-spider.

Well, today I decided I would be checking the mail, and I felt something brush my leg. Out of either habit, or absent mindedness, I swatted at it, and at that time I felt a pain that I could never describe. I then saw a huge black wasp with bright orange wings fly off like not a damn thing just happened. I hobbled to my house, and put ice on it, and the ice did nothing. For close to 10 minutes I felt this blinding white-hot pain at the back of my calf, which had swollen nearly twice it's size, and a huge red mark about 5 inches around.

Needless to say, if I had a choice of being kicked in my meat-bag with steel-toed boots that just happen to be worn by an 800lb gorilla, or stung by another Tarantula Hawk, I would gladly present my semen grenades to the angry silverback.


And for the people that have yet to play Fallout: New Vegas, this is what I was stung by:

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G
Blogs, bro.

At least you didn't see it coming. If you had seen the insect coming before being stung, it would probably have been worse.
 
B
Shouldnt you like.. Go to the hospital?
 
G
How's your leg doing?
Also, that thing is HUGE well, compared to wasps around here.
 
That looks like some sort of legendary bug you hear nightmarish stories about in Africa. No idea monstocities like that existed here. :(

Care to post a pic of the wound? :unsure:
 
Evidently that insect has one of the most painful stings in the world:

The tarantula hawk is relatively docile and rarely stings without provocation. However the sting, particularly of Pepsis formosa, is among the most painful of any insect, though the intense pain only lasts for about 3 minutes.[3] Commenting on his own experience, one researcher described the pain as "…immediate, excruciating pain that simply shuts down one's ability to do anything, except, perhaps, scream. Mental discipline simply does not work in these situations."[2] In terms of scale, the wasp's sting is rated near the top of the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, second only to that of the bullet ant and is described by Schmidt as "blinding, fierce [and] shockingly electric".[4] Because of their extremely large stingers, very few animals are able to eat them; one of the few animals that can is the roadrunner. As many predatory animals avoid these wasps, there are many different insects which are mimics, including various other wasps and bees (Mullerian mimics), as well as moths, flies (e.g., mydas flies), and beetles (e.g., Tragidion) (Batesian mimics).
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Tell us when you start flying around or develop a desire to wear latex.
 
As of this morning, my calf has come down to it's natural size and the spot is only about 2 inches around, but very sensitive. The muscle around it is fairly stiff, but altogether it feels much better.
 
Yuck, kill it, kill it now

The only thing worse than that monstrosity is living in a place where a brown recluse colony is.
 

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