Your posts of bees and wasps bring back painful memories! One summery day I
was in my back yard and decided a row along the garden edge needed weeding.
I was wearing blue jeans not very comfortable to kneel in... but I did
the job. When I stood up and walked back to the garden shed to put
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Thank you so much for my parcel which arrived this morning. What a lovely
lot of goodies - and I have plans for all of them already! The wombat is
gorgeous and I have decided to call him Wally. I love soft toys, and this
one is so different and cute. My daughter will be so
Thank you so much for the Piecework magazine, it arrived today. I have a
lot of delicious reading to go through as the new Martha Pullen Vintage
Collection book also arrived, with more lacey things.
Thanks again,
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This was send to DH by one of his US friends. Just amusingly (IMO) shows the
conclusions that can be gleaned from statistics:
Interesting Thought for the day:
If you consider that there have been an average of 160,000 troops in the
Iraq theater of operations during the last 22 months, and a
Hi all!
I just recieved some sad news, Doris Southard's husband passed away on
August 3rd. I don't have any other details.
JoAnne Pruitt
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Hi All --
Speaking of leaving the nest, feathering the nest (!) and the GOOD side of
Mother Nature (though I have reservations about trying to make a nest in a
poison oak tree!), I got this from my mum today -- some of you might enjoy
seeing
this, if you haven't yet
Here's to a great
Carol Adkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am becoming even more thankful that I live in the UK! We don't have to
put up with all these poisonous and unpleasant creepy crawlies and snakes!
Michigan's list of creepy crawlies is pretty short. There is supposed to
be one poisonous snake that
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Ricki in Utah writes: I've thought about raising silkworms in my mulberry
trees, too, until I heard someone explain it's cruelty to animals.
Ricki, I am in my second season of raising silkworms. I am a handspinner.
And I intend to use the silk from them. I
that is scary. just a little sting could end your life like that. you
are more corageous then i would ever be to leave the house, but then
again the medicine your friend had did help and probably saved your
life. i guess it is something very simple to counteract the poison
from the bee.
also
it might have been a queen wasp or bee if they have queens. i am not
sure what their lifestyles are. a queen is the only bee who can sting
continuously. wasps also bite. a bee will die after it stings you
unless it is queen. you might have found the queen mother of its nest!
--- Spud
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Commercial silk farmers do kill the larvae so that the cocoons can be reeled
(unwound). I don't much care for the thought of that, either. (OTOH, I'm
not about to stop buying silk.) However, in my own
Hi, Arachnes,
Just a gentle reminder to trim quoted messages, please. Thank-you.
Avital
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not a problem. i keep forgetting to cut the old letter off. i try to
read it while i'm writing to remember what i am writing about. i
usually try to leave the first letter on there and add my comment on
the top, but delete the rest if there is any more other replies. i'll
be more careful.
i was curious how small of a bin can you keep and still grow them.
also what is the total amount of silk you recieve per batch and how
often in the year can you regrow them.
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the year that we lived there they had an infestation of wasps. they
covered the entire side of the house. when we went out during the day,
the whole side of the house was covered in wasps. i can't remeber
Dear friends,
On hearing the sad news on here of Doris' husband, I do have her address at
hand, from when she wrote to me, in 2000, when she herself was ill, if
anyone would like her address please E-mail me.
Pauline
in Somerset. U.K.
www.wincanton-uk.com
Hi all. Sorry for the post but my notes to Cherry
Knoblock keep bouncing. Are you out there
Cherry? Hooked back up yet?
Get in touch.
Thanks
bobbi
~*~
Do not meddle
in the affairs of dragons,
We certainly have a lot of bug stories, don't we? This is better than
the flame war that sometimes seem to start up in August. Give me creepy
crawly stories from the safety of the computer room any time!
Nova's wasp story reminded me that I have a wasp story of my own.
A couple of years ago,
As long as everyone is sharing . . . :D
My bug story isn't wasps, it's hornets. When I was about 5 or so, my mom
was visiting one of her friends who had a daughter about my age. There
was also a large hedge around her yard and the remains of an old chain
link fence embeded in the hedge, i.e.,
This has nothing whatsoever to do with the sensible chat about wasps etc -
but funny IMO.
A world renowned expert in the sounds of European wasps is
walking down the
High Street one day when he spots an advert in his local record shop for
Wasp sounds from around the globe.
On further
Hi All --
I've enjoyed reading all of the stories about bugs.
The wasps-in-the pants stories remind me of a time when my son was small, and
I was out weeding the garden. There was an ant colony there, as I soon
discovered -- the biting kind, don't you know! Needless to say, a bunch of
them
Suzy is half right here. The queen can sting and sting and sting.
BUT, apart from her one and only mating flight, the queen (honey bee) doesn't
leave the hive by herself. The only other time she leaves is if the hive
gets overcrowded in which case she will take about half of the bees with
BrambleLane writes: I would be interested in knowing
why it is considered cruelty to animals.
Lynn Carpenter writes: I think that must be the point when cocoons for
reeling are put in boiling water, killing the caterpillars before they chew
their way out.
Silly of me...! I keep forgetting that
Well, don't be complacent, Ruth. The next time could be really bad,
depending on where the sting happens and how many insects are
involved. There might not be time to get to the emergency room.
Carrying the anti-venin would seem to be a small thing to do if it
could make the difference between
On Aug 8, 2005, at 22:01, Martha Krieg wrote:
Tamara, don't assume Danek is safe. He may well now be sensitized, and
the next time he may react.
I don't. But I feel it's reasonable to assume that he'll have more time
than I did to react. If he had the normal (ca 1/4) bump the first
time,
So being the
obedient
type she was, she stood still patiently and waited for it to fly away
-- and the
bee stung her on the arm! I'll never forget that!!! Since then, I
always have
brushed them away -- or rather, flailed away at them and run away!
i had to stay in for recess one day
On Aug 8, 2005, at 3:37, Jean Nathan wrote:
If you consider that there have been an average of 160,000 troops in
the
Iraq theater of operations during the last 22 months, and a total of
2112
deaths, that gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000. The rate in
Washington D.C. is 80.6 per
By the time my mom could rush me to the hospital I had stopped
breathing, my heart had stopped and I was turning blue, so she told
me.
Needless to say I lived (duh) but was terribly allergic to all
bee/wasp
venom from then on.
i am so sorry. i think that is terrible. that would be
As my source says in the subject line... :) And we're all adult enough
here to read it, no?
From: C.B.2
A college professor was doing a study testing the senses of first
graders, using a bowl of lifesavers. He gave all the children the
same kind of lifesavers, one at a time, and asked them
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