When we had a dry summer around here (early 2000's, can't recall exactly), I noticed so many more yellow jacket/ground wasp/whatever buggers nests out there. It was so hot much of the time I figured the wasps and whatnots were simply mad as hell all the time as they seemed much more ferocious than normal that summer plus their venom seemed stronger. A pitch pine/oak forest I was working in seemed to have ground wasp nests literally every 20 feet or so. One day, after having come upon several nests in the morning and getting stung a few times, at lunchbreak I was about to bite into my sandwich and the wasps were onto it. That was it. Couldn't even eat my lunch in peace! I muttered to myself, "%#@(&*!+~+^$#@" several times and headed out of the woods for the day. That miserable episode was one of the very rare occasions when I actually let Mother Nature disrupt my sensibilities enough to send me away!!!! Michele
> Ed, > A couple weeks ago while I was pumping gas for an employee (long story), a > yellow jacket flew up my pant leg and stung me twice before I was able to > stop him. It really hurt! > > --- On Sat, 8/22/09, Edward Frank <[email protected]> wrote: > > > From: Edward Frank <[email protected]> > Subject: [ENTS] Re: Insect Sting > To: [email protected] > Date: Saturday, August 22, 2009, 8:15 PM > > > > > > Doug, > > Thanks for the photos and the post. I remember getting stung by some kind > of a wasp in Puerto Rico that really hurt, but I am a wimp in that > respect.. (I did get a couple other replies. One was by James Robert > Smith on Facebook, and another by Steve Galehouse vie WNTS.) I thought > this was particularly interesting because almost all of us have gotten > stung by some wasp, bee or other insects in our field work, and we see > them every time we venture out. > > Ed > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Eastern Native Tree Society http://www.nativetreesociety.org Send email to [email protected] Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees?hl=en To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
