ENTS, I have heard that you can contract tetanus from the bite or sting of a wasp. Has anyone else heard of this?
George -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob Sent: Friday, August 28, 2009 8:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ENTS] Re: Insect Sting 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 Sent from my iPhone 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 >> >> >> >> >>> >> > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
