I felt a sting on my foot, expecting to see a wasp or yellow jacket I was surprized to see a fly. Well I shook my foot and swat at it, but it didn't move! It kept stinging me! It itched and hurt really bad. An hour later after standing up I felt needle like sinsations rising up my leg. Everytime I arose from my desk I felt the sinsations all afternoon. It was much better by 4:30, 2 1/2 hrs. after I was stung. I put alcohol and calimine lotion on it. What type of fly was that?
2006-08-29 15:14:53 · 18 answers · asked by luvitiam 3 in Health ➔ Other - Health
I don't know of any flies that "sting" per se but there are several flies that bite (to suck blood) and their bite is painful and their saliva stings like crazy. Some people have allergic reactions to the saliva making it even more painful and long lasting.
The most common biting flies are generally refered to as horse flies and deer flies and some types of these are not necessarily bigger than a common house fly and they look very similar.
2006-08-29 15:19:57 · answer #1 · answered by enginerd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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I felt a sting on my foot, expecting to see a wasp or yellow jacket I was surprized to see a fly. Well I shook my foot and swat at it, but it didn't move! It kept stinging me! It itched and hurt really bad. An hour later after standing up I felt needle like sinsations rising up my leg. ...
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2016-10-16 00:38:24 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah i was stung/bit by a fly too, it didnt move when i fanned it away .it was twice a big as a normal house fly with a rusty color face. i think it was actually sucking blood. i bled a little (a drop about the size of a pinhead) when i brushed it off but i didnt feel any effects. if it caused all of that, i would go to the doctor. it could have been a small horsefly.
2006-08-29 15:22:39 · answer #4 · answered by Han_dang 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A fly cant sting it uses its proboscis to penetrate what it wants to eat but blood isnt one of its food sources, I may be a little off on that one, more or less it was something else cause with the many thousands of insects around who knows which one it could've been.
2006-08-29 15:21:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a horse fly. And they don't sting, they actually bite a chunk of skin out of you.
Now you know why horses are always swatting their tails.
2006-08-29 15:16:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There's also what's known as a bot fly. They do sting, sort of. Actually what they do stick their little thing in, to lay their eggs. They lay their eggs in the feet of cattle mostly.
2006-08-29 15:26:32 · answer #7 · answered by oldman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think large Horse Flys will causet his reaction. however if it was a Horse Fly it didn't sting you it bit you.
2006-08-29 15:17:32 · answer #8 · answered by Cassandra S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a horse fly, and it bit you but didn't sting you.
2006-08-29 15:18:08 · answer #9 · answered by Pink Denial 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
horse fly sting and I think so do sand fly's
2006-08-29 15:19:06 · answer #10 · answered by Mrs Magoo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋