Pairing patient photographs of arthropods with expert identification to uncover causes of bites and stings Article

Full Text via DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2023.107332 Web of Science: 001111777600001

Cited authors

  • Ravi S, Stephanos K, Carlson JC

Abstract

  • BugGuide.net is a website where arthropod photographs submitted by the public are identified by professional and amateur entomologists. In April 2023 posts containing "bitten" or "stung" were reviewed. Of 39 verified bites, 10 were blood-feeding insects. Others included 9 Heteroptera, 6 spiders, 6 lacewings. 110 posts of stings included 44 social Hymenoptera, 33 solitary Hymenoptera, 5 Heteroptera, 20 caterpillars and 4 scorpions. Injury from lacewing larvae, true bugs, solitary Hymenoptera and caterpillars was unexpectedly common.

Publication date

  • 2023

Published in

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0041-0101

Number of pages

  • 3

Volume

  • 236