I never heard of that but then again... Once I got stung at least 60 times all at once... BIG nest!!! Good thing I'm not allergic. I felt like I was starring in a movie called "The Swarm".
Michele > > 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] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
