08-01-2009, 11:48 AM
if you put stinging nettle caterpillar into a Google search and select images instead of web, you'll get results.
This could well have been a caterpillar, except you say it isn't painful now, and I think those stings hurt for awhile.
I have gotten arm/wrist "burns" before from something called razor grass. It looks like grass but it's very abrasive. It will leave a red irritated area, but won't look like a sting or bite, more like a welt, narrower than it is wide where the grass has brushed me.
There are also plants that have irritating hairs. The ferns can be real irritating.
I no longer do weeding without my gloves on. A lot of people would say wear a long sleeved shirt, but they are so hot. I am careful not to put my bare skin down in the weeds.
There are also biting ants, and they hurt a lot, and then a little bubble/blister, but normally the ant bites don't have such a wide area that they affect.
This could well have been a caterpillar, except you say it isn't painful now, and I think those stings hurt for awhile.
I have gotten arm/wrist "burns" before from something called razor grass. It looks like grass but it's very abrasive. It will leave a red irritated area, but won't look like a sting or bite, more like a welt, narrower than it is wide where the grass has brushed me.
There are also plants that have irritating hairs. The ferns can be real irritating.
I no longer do weeding without my gloves on. A lot of people would say wear a long sleeved shirt, but they are so hot. I am careful not to put my bare skin down in the weeds.
There are also biting ants, and they hurt a lot, and then a little bubble/blister, but normally the ant bites don't have such a wide area that they affect.