Summer stings and year-round bites

Anecdotes

The hieroglyphics on the walls of the tomb of the pharaoh Menes, a king of Egypt who reigned over 4,000 years ago, tell us that he died from a bee sting. He was probably allergic and nobody knew!!!

You may not think so but insect bites can even be quite poetic. At least, that's how the writer Pere Quart saw it.

Flies and mosquitoes
Mother Nature, doing her best,
has furnished
for every nuisance
a pest.
As night draws in
there's no more fly bites,
but the mosquitoes
well, they work nights.

Pere Quart