A boy was hunting for locusts[1]. He’d caught a good number, when he saw a Scorpion, and mistaking him for a locust, reached out his hand to take him. The Scorpion, showing his sting, said: If you had but touched me, my friend, you would have lost me, and all your locusts too!”

[1] Good source of protein.

Moral of the story: Pat attention to the task at hand.