Timeline for Insect stings while bike riding
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| Jun 8, 2020 at 17:17 | answer | added | DripKracken | timeline score: 2 | |
| Dec 1, 2018 at 10:30 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Nov 30, 2018 at 1:40 | comment | added | Daniel R Hicks | Most memorable for me was a deer fly in northern Minnesota (a few hours out of International Falls. It was a hot day (around 90F) and I was in a spread out group. We all got bit, but, oddly, while I was wearing a thin tee shirt and riding shorts, the fly bit through my riding glove (and deer fly bites HURT). I've always figured the glove seemed like a deer hide to the fly. (Have also inhaled some sort of bug a couple of times, but luckily did not suck it all the way down.) | |
| Nov 30, 2018 at 1:21 | answer | added | Yili | timeline score: 1 | |
| Oct 9, 2018 at 13:18 | comment | added | Grigory Rechistov | Riding in winter solves the problem as all insects are sleeping or dead. | |
| Oct 9, 2018 at 10:11 | answer | added | falconR | timeline score: 0 | |
| Jun 14, 2018 at 22:30 | comment | added | Nate W | I think it would be possible, not probable, that one could hit and remain rather than bounce of depending on the angle impact (did you hit his back or did they see it about to happen and land feet first) and factors such as hair, long sleeve shirt fabric, etc where they would have enough traction to hold on | |
| Jun 14, 2018 at 22:02 | comment | added | David Richerby | @NateW No. Stinging requires the insect to land on you and insert its stinger, which is at the rear its body. In a collision, the insect will just bounce off you and be long gone by the time it has time to react. (Purely anecdotally, I'm pretty sure I hit a bumblebee recently. The impact was much heavier than a normal fly, and it left a bright orange-yellow pollen stain on my arm. I wasn't stung.) | |
| Jun 14, 2018 at 20:13 | comment | added | Criggie♦ | I've swallowed gnats/midges, and have twice had bees get caught in my helmet vents, but never been stung by insects while riding. | |
| Jun 14, 2018 at 19:37 | answer | added | cmaster - reinstate monica | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 14, 2018 at 19:11 | comment | added | dmb | Twice I ate a Fly. Once I snorted one. Other time riding my motorcycle(crotch rocket), a bee managed to get into my leather jacket and stung my colar bone. It's just a combination of enviromental things and bad luck. | |
| Jun 14, 2018 at 18:42 | answer | added | L.Dutch | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 14, 2018 at 17:40 | answer | added | love2phish | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jun 14, 2018 at 17:21 | comment | added | Marc Bernier | Same reason you find them on your windshield: they didn't see the big thing hurtling at them. They usually get into my jersey, but haven't been stung yet. | |
| Jun 14, 2018 at 15:41 | comment | added | Nate W | My guess is a combination of the headwind and your speed, wrong place at the wrong time kind of situation where you and the bug just happened to collide, they felt threatened by the impact and stung you as a result. | |
| Jun 14, 2018 at 10:42 | comment | added | Max | I've never been bitten in my life, riding a bike or not, maybe you lucked out and just collided with an insect at the right angle to get sting ? | |
| Jun 14, 2018 at 9:50 | history | asked | user33275 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |