Re: NANFA-- Bite, Sting...? Collecting near Columbus, OH

Mark (mbinkley_at_columbus.rr.com)
Sat, 26 May 2001 13:35:06 -0400

At 1:15 PM -0400 5/26/01, NATURNUT_at_aol.com wrote:
>Mark-
> That bite sounds like some kind of a water spider bite. There are many
>different species of "water spiders" that will give you one heck of a bite,
>and they would crawl up a seine pole like that, as well. Thats not to say it
>was a spider for sure, I'm just judging it on my experience with insect and
>spider bites. Hope it didn't hurt too much, some of the water "bugs" can
>really draw blood (ex. giant water beetles)
> ___Dan Marshall, MI

Now, that's an interesting idea. Are these actual spiders (arachnids) or
some other kind of arthropods? I've had worse stings from bees and madtoms.

Mark
Columbus Ohio USA <))><
mbinkley_at_columbus.rr.com

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