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Yellow Jackets almost nailed me.....

FlameOut said:
navychief, I know just what you mean !

I'm not an entomologist ( ...had to look that up...) or anything, but we had some very rough weather here in Dixie... Alabama.... for the last 2-3 days.
I was out cutting off fallen tree limbs, picking up small branches, etc; when my daughter yelled at me to come over to the front porch to see this spider !

Well here it is ... oh, I did not kill it or anything, I just let it live in peace.

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....be careful out there boys :wavey:
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OH MY GAWD!!!

Are you kidding me? In your backyard? That thing??
Eeeeeek!
I would still be running.....
 
crashaz said:
I hate things that sneak up and bite you... ie bugs,snakes, scorpions etc. I get angry when I see then crawling near me and terminate them with extreme prejudice. <---
I'm right there with you when it comes to creepy crawlies of any type. I hate them things! I know they have their own use and contribute to the equilibrium of the ecosystem...but jeez oh man...
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Snakes... found baby rattlers underneath my bed... after I made it. <---Ok so I laughed out loud when I read that....too funny!

I was fast in those days... outran the bees!!:icon_lol:
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Well you seem to still be just as fast today Crash....except this time, you're trying to outrun women
 
ROFL!

Hmm snake bites or bad marriage.... I go with snake bites....one could die... but the pain would be sooo much shorter.

It's a jungle out there.:icon_lol:
 
Here is a Hornet Queen I photographed in the Spring. What's not to like about them?
 
The meanest, creepiest, and scariest hornets of all time,....in my estimation are the Asian giant hornet. They're orange in color and have a body length of around two inches. Wingspan,....around three inches. I've seen videos where a bunch of these rascals will totally wipe up a hive of honey bees. It's like David and Goliath death match,...except almost all the Goliaths win. Very disturbing to view.
Here's a Wikipedia link to these 'super hornets'....and I don't mean F-18's.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet
As far as I know,...none have settled into the US,...but I could be wrong......
 
Everybody knows about yellow jackets and their bad attitudes, but also watch out for digger wasps. My wife had an unpleasant encounter with those guys while trimming grass around an old tire she used for a planter. The diggers live in soil and they don't like folks poking shears around their neighborhood. They're dark brown or black so it's hard to spot 'em before they roll in on ya. :icon_lol:
I'd never live someplace where I had to deal with scorpions. Ugliest creatures that God ever placed on this earth.
 
i once ran over a yellow jacket nest with the lawn mower at the same time my (at the time) girlfriend was pulling up in the car with the groceries. she sees me jumpin around the yard like a maniac, thinking i am playing with her and her 3 yr old daughter. i am trying to tell them to stay in the car. they were laughing so hard she had tears streaming down her face when she met up with me down the road a piece. it seems a lot funnier now than it did then. :icon_lol:
 
A friend of mine got bitten several times by brown recluse spiders. He was in the Army, and doing some Ranger training at Fort Benning (I think) and developed these dark places on his legs. Went to the base hospital and they treated him with antibiotics. Of course, that did nothing to stop the necrotic action of the recluse bites. Went back, and they gave him strong antibiotics. Again, no improvement. Went back, this time with holes opening up on his legs...lots of holes. Luckily, there happened to be an entomologist passing through from one base to another. He took one look at my friend's legs and knew what was up.

Treatment to stop the necrotic action involved the use of liquid nitrogen to freeze the bitten areas and scooping out the frozen flesh. Took many months for all those holes to heal up. Today, his legs are fine...but he really shouldn't wear shorts...those scars are big and ugly.

OBIO
 
Oh, those yellow jackets. I thought you were told off by a yellow jacket for disrupting the flow of traffic on a CVN. :kilroy:
 
if it has more than 4 limbs and/or 2 eyes, it must die by my 9 volt electrocution device. this method usually ends up with some bad smell, smoke, and occasionally a small explosion when the freak of nature blows up. I have to admit, it's almost gives me sadistic pleasure to watch those things die in agony after they've entered my apartment without permission. and for those black ants that oh-so love sugar? I have some nice ant traps for them. I haven't seen a single one after getting those lovely little anti-ant pillboxes. :ernae:
 
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