Michele,
I remember a summer in the mid-90s when I got stung on at least
7 occasions that I can recall, including 9 stings at one time. The
yellow jackets were unusually aggressive as were the hornets. I
thought that was a lousy year, but it sounds like getting stung at
least once is all in a day's work for you.
Bob
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On Aug 28, 2009, at 7:23 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>
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