#2046723 - 08/26/10 01:41 PM
Re: Wasps!
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#2046803 - 08/26/10 03:14 PM
Re: Wasps!
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As we walked along, my Dad noticed an ax handle sticking out of the ground, well, to make a long story longer, he pulled it out Sounds like the Cumberland Plateau version of Excaliber  You know, the sword in the stone, and King Arthur, and... "Hey y'all its Axe-caliber. Watch this." Sorry, not poking fun, just a funny image. I'll go back to work now. Just spit Diet Dr. Pepper on computer screen. Ha
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#2046806 - 08/26/10 03:16 PM
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Sorry 'bout that. I forgot this was the serious forum.
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#2046810 - 08/26/10 03:18 PM
Re: Wasps!
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Famous last words..."Watch 'is"
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#2046856 - 08/26/10 03:56 PM
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I saw a youtube video where they ranked the top ten deadliest snakes based on the potency of their venom (some type of sea snake was the deadliest if you're curious). Wonder if anything similar has been done for stinging critters.
I don't even know if different species of wasp use different types of irritants/poisons in their sting. It may just be a "volume injected per sting" sort of thing. But I've certainly noted a big difference in my body's reaction to the stings of different species. Yellow-jacket and mud dauber stings hurt, but the pain fades in a few hours. Paper-wasp stings hurt for a week and cause severe swelling near the sting. I've heard the English Hornet sting packs a heck of a wallop.
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#2046858 - 08/26/10 03:59 PM
Re: Wasps!
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I tell you what, we used to get burned up by yellow-jackets back when we mowed our food plots with a DR walk-behind mower. The mower runs over the nest in the ground before you walk over it. The mower would literally suck all the yellow-jackets up out of the ground nest just in time for you to walk over it! Dang you could get worn out!
I'm not getting stung at all now that I use a ATV pull-behind mower.
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#2046866 - 08/26/10 04:04 PM
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Actually, the European Hornet is not very aggresive. I had a nest behind my house and they didn't bother anyone. My pest man came and sprayed the whole tree and got no stings from any of the 1000+ hornets. Normally, they have only 400-600 to a nest but that was the largest he had ever seen.
I did lots of research on these things when I found the nest right behind my back door maybe 30 yards.
The biggest problem they present is they fly at night, unlike any other wasp/hornet/bee. They will come to light which is why lots of folks get stung by them at night riding ATV's. If you are some distance from the nest, you may only see one or two here and there at night around your flood lights and such as only one or two may have your house in their flight path.
They covered us up in my shop while finishing the inside last summer before the nest was killed out but not one sting.
They look much worse than they are but IF THEY DO STING YOU IT WILL HURT!
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#2046871 - 08/26/10 04:10 PM
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Actually, the European Hornet is not very aggresive. I had a nest behind my house and they didn't bother anyone. My pest man came and sprayed the whole tree and got no stings from any of the 1000+ hornets. Normally, they have only 400-600 to a nest but that was the largest he had ever seen.
I did lots of research on these things when I found the nest right behind my back door maybe 30 yards.
The biggest problem they present is they fly at night, unlike any other wasp/hornet/bee. They will come to light which is why lots of folks get stung by them at night riding ATV's. If you are some distance from the nest, you may only see one or two here and there at night around your flood lights and such as only one or two may have your house in their flight path.
They covered us up in my shop while finishing the inside last summer before the nest was killed out but not one sting.
They look much worse than they are but IF THEY DO STING YOU IT WILL HURT!
I have heard that if they are unmolested that they are not aggressive...somehow we got too near their nest while camping (didn't mean too) and they went apesh*t. It was pouring rain, dark, we were trying to start the campfire and the stove for dinner and then they attacked. My buddy was swinging a rolled up 12-pak box at them and missed and hit my propane lantern hanging from a pole--it fell and smashed on the ground, it went dark and then it was just a general melee. All the while pouring down rain, people getting stung, it was dark, twisting ankles....just a melee.
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