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

[moz@fosstodon.org]

@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite A2: mostly clouds of midges where closing orifices and slowly exhaling through my nose works less badly than the alternatives.

My favourite is when I was sitting on a wharf using a long lens to take photos of crayfish and a dragonfly flew into frame and stole focus. So I have a cool photo of a dragonfly. I was cycle touring at the time so that makes it bike-related

#BikeNite

[yantor3d@mas.to]

@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite A2 nothing noteworthy, but now I'm remembering the bugpocalypse that was the front grill of my parents' minivan after road trips through the midwest in the early 90s and now I'm imagining how foul it would be to ride a bike through such conditions...

#bikeNite

[cainmark@mstdn.social]

@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite

A2. Interesting was when a preying mantis stayed on my handlebar for 5 miles.

Not so interesting were the clouds of gnats near the Tennessee River. So many that even spitting them out I just resigned myself to imagining it was free protein for fuel.

#BikeNite

[cainmark@mstdn.social]

@wanderinghermit @ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite

A2b. I forgot that I have had this happen a few times. Probably intentionally. Not fun.

#BikeNite

[grammasaurus@mastodon.social]

@harold @ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite AARGH!! sounds horrible!

[lopta@mastodon.social]

@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite A2) No. #BikeNite

[uxmark@cosocial.ca]

@ascentale @Brownian_motion @MartyCormack @bikenite Q2. No, not really. Unfortunately my “interesting” experiences are with people driving cars! (Though, really, most drivers are courteous and careful.)

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[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!

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[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.

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[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)
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[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.