Aaaaaggghhhhh! Somehow during his Garfield phase my child never encountered any of these. Thank heavens; the sleep problems would have been even worse.

Jon is most definitely insane.

I heard of one fetus that kicked so much it broke its mother's rib, from the inside. That being said, I didn't have any major problems and kind of enjoyed most of the movement. But the huge belly is freakin' weird.

You can get a poster of that pain scale! It's at Allie's shop. We gave one to our doctor neighbors.

I can't stop. It's horribly riveting.

Oh, my God.

As Xavier Onassis says, mud daubers are pretty wimpy. Also low-key. I've never met a stinging insect less interested in stinging (or more interested in building a mud nest on the binding of my first edition of Lolita, but never mind). In fun facts to know and tell, my sister once got a mud dauber sting by stepping…

When I was a very small girl I once watched as one of those things took out a tarantula. It was epic, and I still remember it vividly among the blur of images and sensations that is life pre-kindergarten.

Spider =/= insect, is I suspect why they're not on this list. Along with scorpions.

Oh, you aren't kidding. It's even worse than a chigger bite, and I used to think those were the most lingering and itchy.

Holy heck.

You're a better person than I am.

My issue with fire ants - besides the fact that they sting en masse - is that the bites are just miserable for days and days.

Totally, and I was thinking the same thing. But scorpions aren't insects, they're arthropods.

I'mma just take this opportunity to say: please no one here miss "The Reichenbach Fall" on PBS tomorrow night (the Series 2 finale of "Sherlock"). All the awards to Martin Freeman.

Autoerotic asphyxiation is an embarrassing way to go.

Love this. And he managed to ream Edison w/o even mentioning his appalling anti-Semitism.

I'll show you the life of the mind!

Right there with you - "uncanny" is a good word.

I think you may be on to something here.