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BajaWaverunner
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Stung by a huge flying bug - What was that bug?
I was at Punta Final on Sunday afternoon and a large flying bug landed on my beach chair. When I went to brush it off the thing stung me on my thumb
so hard that I bled for about 10 minutes. The pain was intense but the bleeding stopped and the pain went away after about 10-15 minutes. The body
was about 2-3 inches long and looked like that of a wasp, the head looked similar to that of a praying mantis, and its wings were a browish red color.
The thing didn't fly like a wasp - it seemed to be clumsy in the way it flew - similar to the way a beetle flys. Does anyone have any idea what that
bug was? If have never had a bug sting cause me to bleed so bad before.
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castaway$
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Sounds like you were bit not stung, remember- Everything in Baja pokes, pricks, sticks, bites or stings!
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DENNIS
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Chupacabra..........sin duda. 
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jeffg
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Sounds like a Tarantula Wasp (or Tarantula Hawk).
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Tarantula Wasps are Top Ten on the Schmidt Pain Index. Congrats Waverunner, 1 down...9 to go! Call me when you get to Bullet Ant.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schmidt_Sting_Pain_Index
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SiReNiTa
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Is that it??
Here is some info I found on wikipedia 
A tarantula hawk is a spider wasp which hunts tarantulas as food for its larvae. Tarantula hawks belong to any of the many species in the genera
Pepsis and Hemipepsis in the family Pompilidae (Spider wasps).
he more familiar species are up to five centimeter (two inches) long with a blue-black body and bright rust-colored wings (other species have black
wings with blue highlights), making them among the largest of wasps. The coloring on their wings warns potential predators that they are dangerous
(Aposematism). Their long legs have hooked claws for grappling with their victims. The stinger of a female tarantula hawk can be up to 7 mm (1/3 inch)
long, and the sting is considered among the most painful insect stings in the world.
Soooo Not dangerous but reaaaally painful!!! Sorry you got stung!
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ElCap
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I've heard locals call them 'toro de uva' - I guess they like the grapevines around San Ignacio. They are big and menacing looking, but don't seem
overly aggresive, but I sure wouldn't want to test their bite/sting.
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castaway$
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Apparently that guy has never been stung by a
scorpion, it doesn't exactly tickle.
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Bugman
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Based on the description it does sound like a tarantula wasp but without the offending creature we may never know..........
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BajaBlanca
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one flew onto our porch yesterday ... it was loud and clumsy and flew right into a window and then got up and flew off. The bicycle club boys were on
the porch and I had a good laugh at them scrambling to get away from it !!! I thought I was a wimp. HAH !
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rhintransit
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tarantula wasp. also known as 'cow killer'
have been stung once. intense pain, and swelling foot to hip (stung on foot), lasted many days.
reality\'s never been of much use out here...
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Yep, a tarantula wasp, you guys have nailed it (or vice versa)
The good news: they are quite non-aggressive, just let them fly around and they will ignore you.
If someone wants to experiment and sit on one, let me know how it works out.
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BajaWaverunner
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The tarantula Wasp is EXACTLY what stung me. Thanks for the photo.
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David K
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Tarantula Hawk (is what we have called them)
On July 4th weekend, 2009... we were slicing a tomato for lunch and this gal cruised right to us and she looked thirsty... and spent a good amount of
time sucking up the tomato juices, we just let her take what she wanted and there was never any threat, even with me being inches from her taking
pictures...
Shell Island (usually bug free)
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Dave
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They don't die easy neither
| Quote: | Originally posted by rhintransit
tarantula wasp. also known as 'cow killer'
have been stung once. intense pain, and swelling foot to hip (stung on foot), lasted many days. |
Hit one with a rolled up magazine a couple of times. Just got peeed off.
Which is exactly what you don't want.
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I am not pleased to hear that somebody got bit by this tough bug........but I am ROFLMA at the pics and responses.......it is threads like this that
keep me reading the forum.
I've been imagining what would happen if I hit one of these things at 40-60 mph on my moto....sheeeuuut
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BajaGringo
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I was bit on my upper back by one of those many years ago while living in northern Argentina at the time. I literally yelled out loud from the pain it
was so bad. A friend who was there with me quickly dragged me down to the river at the back of my property where he reached down to pull up a cold
handful of the river bottom mud. He packed the mud in the location of the bite and held it there for about a minute.
It was like a miracle as the pain quickly eased and was completely gone in just a couple of minutes...
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David K
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Bit or stung? Do they do both?
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Bugman
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They don't have much for chompers so it's the sting you need to worry about. When you figure they need to pack enough of a wallop to take down a big
tarantula in a hurry the sting is gonna hurt...... a lot! 
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BajaGringo
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Bite / sting - who knows? All I can tell you is that it felt like somebody had taken a hot poker out of the fire and drove it into my back...
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