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Baitball Blogger

(46,736 posts)
Fri Oct 18, 2013, 10:00 PM Oct 2013

So I squished a flying insect and now my fingers stink.

I thought it was a mosquito coming up in my peripheral so I turned and grabbed it and smashed my fingers together. When I looked in my open palm I found a green benign green creature which appeared intact, but stunned. Not a mosquito at all. So I dropped it to the side and hope for the best, but my fingers smell like moth balls.

Anyone have any idea what it could have been?

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So I squished a flying insect and now my fingers stink. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Oct 2013 OP
EWWW... Callmecrazy Oct 2013 #1
was it a stink bug? noamnety Oct 2013 #2
This one had a soft body and just looked three or four times larger than a mosquito. Baitball Blogger Oct 2013 #4
I'm not an entomologist, but it sounds to me like... Liberal Veteran Oct 2013 #3
We called these Stinkbugs when I was a kid mockmonkey Oct 2013 #5
OMG! That's it! Baitball Blogger Oct 2013 #8
We learned as kids mockmonkey Oct 2013 #9
As others have said, STINK BUG B Calm Oct 2013 #6
Ick davidpdx Oct 2013 #7
You committed murder. It's... MiddleFingerMom Oct 2013 #10
Not entirely my fault. Baitball Blogger Oct 2013 #11
That little bug died mockmonkey Oct 2013 #12

Liberal Veteran

(22,239 posts)
3. I'm not an entomologist, but it sounds to me like...
Fri Oct 18, 2013, 10:35 PM
Oct 2013

...it was the rare Death of 10000 Tears Beetle. They secrete a toxin when touched that painfully destroys every cell in your body very very slowly.

You should probably make sure you have your affairs in order.

By the way, when I say very slowly, I mean over the course of 5 centuries. Kiss your immortality goodbye.


mockmonkey

(2,817 posts)
5. We called these Stinkbugs when I was a kid
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 07:05 AM
Oct 2013

The Lacewing



Maybe it was a Moth and you squished it's Moth balls?

Baitball Blogger

(46,736 posts)
8. OMG! That's it!
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 09:11 AM
Oct 2013

Good catch!

I assume that if I have that much of a smell on my fingers that I probably killed the poor little guy?

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)
7. Ick
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 07:24 AM
Oct 2013

Never seen one of those. We get the big size mosquitoes here in Korea and when you pop one of those it's like watching a horror movie on TV. Damn vampires!

MiddleFingerMom

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10. You committed murder. It's...
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 11:49 AM
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Baitball Blogger

(46,736 posts)
11. Not entirely my fault.
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 05:29 PM
Oct 2013

I wasn't raised in these here parts and that kind of stink bug never made it to my end of the woods.

mockmonkey

(2,817 posts)
12. That little bug died
Sat Oct 19, 2013, 07:10 PM
Oct 2013

so others of his ilk could live on.

You've learned to never do that again.

(not unless you've developed some weird fetish)

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