I generally try to ride the bike to work whenever it's nice (read: not raining; I'll ride when it's 100 degrees or below freezing).  My "interesting" week started on Thursday when I was riding home from work on Reserve.  I figured I had enough juice to get me to the gas station by my house.  Well, I underestimated that, and ended up running out of gas.    I was on a hilly road with one lane in each direction during rush hour.    I first called my wife, who was about 45 minutes away visiting family, so I called my only friend in the area (I just moved to SE PA) who fortunately came to my rescue with a gas can, after sitting on the side of the road for some time.  I guess it beat waiting like 3 hours for AAA.  

I was going to be traveling all this week for work, so I figured I'd treat myself to a ride on Saturday morning before I left and enjoy the beautiful weather we were having.  I did a quick 100 miles or so up 611 along the Delaware River and Delaware Canal, upon the recommendation of a co-worker who takes that route up to the Poconos.  Excellent ride, tons of great scenery and other motorcyclists out enjoying the same.  

As I'm heading home, probably less than 10 minutes from my house, I'm doing about 50 down a windy back road with 2 cars behind me.  Suddenly I feel this sharp pain on my left forearm, and think I'm being stung by something.    I start flailing and wacking my arm, trying to stop it.  I abruptly swerve to the side of the road as the pain intensifies, jump off the bike, and start stripping off my leather jacket.  A freakin yellow jacket somehow flew up the sleeve of my jacket and was stinging my arm!  

I've ended up spending most of the past week with my inner forearm swolen and ridiculously itchy from my wrist all the way to my elbow.  :'(

That's my story.  I hope you got a laugh. But I still can't wait to get back on the bike when I get home tomorrow.  

Oh man, that's crazy!!!

A few minutes earlier, I had gotten hit in the bridge of my nose by a fly or something, and thought to myself it's been a great ride.  If that's the worst thing that happened, so be it.  Then I was stung.  :'(  Just my luck, I guess!

I have heard of people getting bees in their FF helmet too.  That's got to be crazy scary.  I'd rather take a sting on my arm than my face any day!  

I was driving home from work just last week. It was hot so I had my jacket open and a wasp flew in between my buttons and started stingin away at my belly.  Not fun, not fun at all.

And hornets bite! had two land on me when I was young and took little hunks outta my chest! all while they were stinging! I looked like I had a double-D on the left side for a week!

Oh thanks, Boof.  I am currently eaten up with mosquito bites.  Like your daughter, I must have the perfect chemistry for them.  Deet doesn't help, nothing seems to help.  I try something different every weekend I go to my camp.  The worst place is my ankles and the bend behind my knees.  Since I normally wear black socks, I thought I'd try white socks.  Didn't matter.  They like them just the same.  I usually wear ankle high "muck" boots, so I got a pair of knee-high ones.  Tried those this weekend and my ankles and legs are fine.... but the smart skeeters found my torso.  I have at least 15 bites itching the living daylights out of me.  

I've scoured the internet for relief ideas, and tried a bunch, but nothing really seems to help.  It takes major will-power for 3-4 days to not scratch the crap out of myself.    

Any home remedy suggestions would be greatly appreciated!  

When I went out for lunch today, some kinda bug got down in my shirt and started biting the crap out of me. Couldn't wait to get my shirt off! Never found what it was...

I've always heard that the original avon skin-so-soft was a wonderful insect repellent.  Deet seems to work fine for me.  Otherwise, I am eaten alive by the mosquitos also.

When I fished in Alaska alot of fisherman used those dryer sheets that you throw in to make your clothes smell good. Something in them repels mosquitoes. Wiped them over face and hands and put them down the collar of their shirts.
For bites use roll on deodorant. Liquid. I guess there is a little aluminum in it which causes the itch to stop. It works for me.
My Dr told me to use a allergy pill to stop the itch from bug bites. For me that works the best
I have a baseball cap that I got in alaska that has fold down netting to cover face and neck. Works perfectly.
Somewhere I read where eating garlic to ward off bug bites is a old wives tale.  The smell of garlic wards off just about everything. But I have friends who swear by it.