George- Only if the wasp has stepped on a nail before you're stung...;>) -Don
> From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ENTS] Re: Insect Sting > Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:45:36 -0400 > > > 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 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® is up to 70% faster. Now good news travels really fast. http://windowslive.com/online/hotmail?ocid=PID23391::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HYGN_faster:082009 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
