Sounds like he got hit by a blister bug, or they are sometimes called blister beetles. Most are silver and black striped, but I have seen them brown and silver. They are a terrible pest in the garden...and will blister if they get on you > My potatoes were just crawling with them one time so I tapped a bunch of them off in a bucket, blended them with some water and sprayed it back on the plants. Next day only one plant had bugs...So I sprayed it again. Don't know where they disappeared to..no carcasses laying around....Learned that bit of lore from Organic Gardening magazine, I think. We have a problem with stink bugs messing up our tomatoes..I reckon they lay eggs just under the skin...anyway, it makes a corky bad spot. If you mash them they really smell bad..are usually shied shaped, green. Jeannie T ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Sat, 12 Feb 2011 23:51:01 -0500 "helenware" <helenware@comcast.net> writes: > About twenty years ago while driving down a Texas highway, my son had > his > window open and his arm out of it-he was hit/bit by a triangular > silver/grey > bug that flew into him-it hurt so bad he stopped to look thinking it > might > have been a bee(he is very allergic) it made a very big blister on > his upper > arm and we never found out what type of bug it was. But he said it > was a > burning pain as it blistered. > Do you think a "stink bug" would do that? > Helen > > > > > > > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mbousman1/memory.htm > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MEMORY-LANE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ____________________________________________________________ Get Free Email with Video Mail & Video Chat! http://www.juno.com/freeemail?refcd=JUTAGOUT1FREM0210