Q2. Have you had any interesting experiences with bugs or insects while riding?

[geonz@mathstodon.xyz]

@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite A friend riding recumbent trike was simply plastered with flying ants when we rode in their swarm season. It was before cell phones & cameras, though. It was thoroughly horrific

[geonz@mathstodon.xyz]

@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite #bikeNite Q2 I went camping and had oh, 33 chigger bites, I counted, they were itchy, I was going to ask for sympathy on the Monday ride.
Oh, Ann? She had cleared some ivy from the side of her house and knocked off a wasps' nest. Many stings. And the ivy? Poison.
I just kept my mouth shut.

[kimu@wandering.shop]

@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite A2. On our big annual city ride last Saturday, I was zipping along and got smacked in the face by a bee! I was fine, but it was a weird thing! #BikeNite

[justip@zeroes.ca]

@harold H O R R I F Y I N G

[cainmark@mstdn.social]

@geonz @ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite

Oh no.

#Bike

[moira@mastodon.murkworks.net]

@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite A2: Not while riding, but I was walking up the hill from the bus stop one day and this big hornet just came through the air in a big long arc out of nowhere, ran straight into the middle of my forehead, stung me instantly, and fucked off. It was like an intentional hit-and-run by a bee just because it could and I was all like YOU FUCKER

#BikeNite

[moira@mastodon.murkworks.net]

@ClimateJenny @ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite fuzzy!

#BikeNite

[ascentale@sfba.social]

@Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite A2. I've been stung by some sort of insect I think 3 times now.

Once on the chest.. some wasp-like insect (it was small, had stripes - I have the incident on video!) hit my knuckle and then tumbled onto my chest and stung me before falling off. I haven't been hit with a BB gun, but that's what I imagine the sting felt like.

I've been stung on my knee and eyelid as well, though I don't remember hitting the insect first before being stung.

#BikeNite

[arestelle@dice.camp]

@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite A2 I had what was probably a bumblebee smack me in the face and bumble on, at least once #BikeNite

[dgodon@mastodon.online]

@ClimateJenny What a cute spider!

@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite

[dgodon@mastodon.online]

@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite a2. I think we're all probably members of the ISAF club (shout out to the Judy Blume fans)
#bikenite

[dgodon@mastodon.online]

@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite Stands for "I swallowed a Fly"

[cptbutton@dice.camp]

@ClimateJenny @ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite

I get spiders hitchhiking like this all the time. One from a year and a half ago.

"A male Pelegrina sp. I'd guess probably Pelegrina proterva." according to someone on a spider ID group elsewhere.

[cainmark@mstdn.social]

@moira @ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite

Sounds premeditated.

Guilty of sting,your honor.

#BikeNite

[cainmark@mstdn.social]

@harold @ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite

Ouch!

#BikeNite

[bikemonterey@sfba.social]

@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack #BikeNite A2 A drawback to biking in the evening for us is lots more bugs hit our face. We definitely wear protective glasses to keep them out of our eyes. @bikenite

[feloniouspunk@beige.party]

@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite A2. Once while in the middle of a mildly intense technical downhill, a bee flew into my helmet and started stinging me. I made it through, uncrashed.

[ascentale@sfba.social]

@genex @lopta @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite Q1 was tagged in draft form but otherwise didn’t exist at all

[ascentale@sfba.social]

@MarkBrigham @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite @wanderinghermit I always thought the mesh was ridiculous until I heard that people actually do get stung on the head.

[ascentale@sfba.social]

@harold @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite ok that terrifying!