Things you don't want in your shoe

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[edit] Scorpions

This is the reason I always check my shoes. Scorpion

[edit] Green headed ant

Found in my shoe stinging my foot at the Woodford Folk Festival, January 2008. Rhytidoponera metallica

CC-nc-sa photo by April Nobile, Antweb.org.

[edit] Australian Brown Field Cricket

Found in my shoe, December 2007. Took a lot of shaking to get it to come out. Australian Brown Field Cricket

[edit] Mosquitos

I had 3 bites on my feet from these awful things when visiting the University of Newcastle, which is apparently renowned for it's mossies - something I didn't know before visiting. I always get bad reactions to mosquito bites in Australia, but these ones were especially bad.
Mosquito