@MoBilly Yeah, we’ve got a couple plants around here that do the same thing! Damn nasty, you feel like you’re literally on fire. It’s so bad that when a friend of mine did it, she was convinced by a group of Thai Forestry Guards to try a ‘remedy’ they knew of; they poured kerosene down her arms and set it alight! Supposedly, it flash burns the little needles that you otherwise just keep rubbing in deeper. Afterwards, they admitted that they didn’t know if it worked because in the past they’d never been able to convince anyone to try it!
She said that there was some benefit; the relief that her arms didn’t burn off made it seem like it must have worked!
In Colombia there is a “tradition”, older people when they find an insect as butterflies or spiders look for numbers in the drawing of their body to play the lottery.
I’m not much of a gambler either, but whenever I see such an insect with a drawing I remember my uncles and grandparents, they could spend hours looking at a bug looking for numbers.
