do assasins bite?

[oblivion56]

i was just wondering if they would bite if handled and how bad a bite would be.

 

[danread]

Yes they do. I'm not speaking from personal experience, but i have heard a bite from a large adult is extremely painful, so definitely one to avoid.

Cheers,

 

[jdcarrel]

I can speak from experience. I was bitten by a Arilus cristatus(wheel bug). Hurt a lot since it bites with its "beak."

 

[CustomNature]

Exactly how bad though?

I want to know if these bites are painful, for dangerous??? I mean do they hurt a whole bunch, or do you need to go to the hospital or anything like that?????

 

[ghost_tomb]

i think i've heard of peeple reacting badly to the bite, though i can't say how bad.

they inject a strong venom + digestive jucies (or something similar) into the wound which is why it feels like its burning.

 

[danread]

I think hospitialisation is unlikely, just a lot of pain. Of course, pain is all relative, some people might shrug it off, whilst some might be crying and rolling around on the floor. With any venom there is a chance of an alergic reaction in the person being bitten, causing anaphalatic shock and some very serious symptoms. Generally though chances of this are rare, so i would have thought a normal bite could be treated with some antihistamines and some sting spray, or doing nothing and waiting for the pain to go away. I wouldn;t let this put you off keeping them, if you keep your hands away from them and keep them in a suitable enclosure, there is a zero percent chance of being bitten.

Cheers,

 

[Elytra and Antenna]

Dangerous no. However Platymeris is one bite that NOBODY WOULD SHRUG OFF.

 

[Malhavoc's]

One day I was sitting on my couch, it was a hot summers day [no this is not a novel!] Anyway watchign tv minding my own buisness and we had a few assassins around here [Ontario canada small black with red dots] anyway I musta sat on this poor fella as it bit me just between my Pants and my shirt, it felt sorta like a burn for a bit and devoloped into what I can only discribe as a very pussy zit, nothing to big jsut really pussy, thats the only result from the bit and unfortunetly the creature died from the result of my weight shifting on him when I jumped. Overall I'd say less then a bee sting but I dont think the kind that bit me is anything liek the ones that are forsale in the pettrade.

 

[oblivion56]

what in the holy name of crap do you mean by"pussy zit"?

 

[Elytra and Antenna]

He's not talking about Platymeris.
Kind of like when you ask how to feed rhino grubs and someone answers by telling you how their mantis eats a lot. I love message boards.
I and people I know directly have been bitten by Platymeris. It is an entire world of pain. Oddly, if they squirt poison in your eye it just stings a bit.

 

[Elytra and Antenna]

Sorry, I forgot to add I put up some assassin pictures.
http://www.angelfire.com/oh3/elytraandantenna/MantidsAssassins/

 

[Pheonixx]

i think he meant PUS like the white stuff that oozes from things when white blood cells attack an infection and die off. resulting in PUS.

 

[Elytra and Antenna]

Try replacing with the word "wimpy"

 

[oblivion56]

lmao ,i get what you meant!

 

[dyky71]

My daughters little girl was bit by one on the neck. It kind of looked like a mild Recluse bite. There was a hole in the middle with pus and it was swollen and purple.
It took forever to heal and she still has a swollen lymph node directly beneath the bite.

 

[oblivion56]

damn,how did that happen?

 

[dyky71]

She was laying in the grass watching insects. It climbed onto her neck and when she reached to brush it off it bit her. She is 4.
It was a painful bite. She was on antibiotics for the infection.
I wouldn't want to get bit by one.
It didn't cause her to be afraid of bugs and such.
Her favorite is her pet hissing cockroaches.
We are trying to teach her to be cautious as not all insects are friendly.

 

[mantid]

That must have hurt...ouch. If you want to teach her that not all insects are friendly you scould buy her a centipede...mwahahahaha

 

[dtknow]

I remember being bitten by a crawling water bug...pain was a numbing, burning pain that lasted about 20 seconds before fading off quickly.

 

[mantid]

Never been bitten by a bug yet except for one beetle I picked up off the ground a let crawl on my face, stupid me :wall: didn't hurt that much though.