Bug Bites

Some are itchy, some are painful, some go totally unnoticed by us every single day...bugs have such variety in the ways they chomp, some chomps aren't even from bug mouths, but from bug butts! Join us while we debate, query, and learn all we can about the wide world of bug bites.
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[This, That, or the Other: These Ouches Are No Slouches]
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cla.12103
press.jhu.edu/books/title/10878/sting-wild
[Trivia Question]
Size of giant toe-biting water bugs found in Cyprus
travaux.pensoft.net/article/94457
livescience.com/animals/insects/giant-toe-bite…
blog.abchomeandcommercial.com/do-water-bugs-bi…
cyprus-mail.com/2024/03/20/massive-bug-sighted…
[Fact Off]
Epomis beetle larvae and adults eat frogs as role-reversal predators
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/j…
Bumble bees bite plant leaves to make them flower early
science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aay0496
scientificamerican.com/article/bumblebees-bite…
wisconsinbumblebees.entomology.wisc.edu/about-…
academic.oup.com/jxb/article/67/17/4925/2197656
[Ask the Science Couch]
Causes of itchiness and how calamine lotion / zinc oxide works
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4862869
cuimc.columbia.edu/news/how-stop-bug-bites-itc…
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9532860
frontiersin.org/journals/immunology/articles/1…
jsstd.org/calamine-lotion
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4120804
Patreon bonus: Bugs with big mandibles or bite marks (even if they rarely bite humans)
pukaha.org.nz/the-wacky-world-of-new-zealand-w…
newzealandecology.org/nzje/2995
nhm.ac.uk/discover/stag-beetles.html
journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/217/7/1065…
nps.gov/articles/giant-water-bug.htm
[Butt One More Thing]
Beaded lacewing (Lomamyia latipennis) larvae paralyze termites with farts before eating them
wired.com/2015/06/silent-deadly-fatal-farts-im…
nature.com/articles/289506a0

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