10-18-2014, 07:15 PM
BTW ^^ up above when quoted Dale and nothing else showed, that's what I meant in pm
Not sure where you are Ray, but I assume a scorpion infested area. (heh) ---your retort to Dale reminded me of Taming of the Shrew::
Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp! In faith you are too angry!
Katherina: If I be waspish, best beware my sting!
Petruchio: My remedy then is to pluck it out!
Katherina: Hah! Aye, if the fool could find where it lies!
Petruchio: Who knows not where a wasp doth wear his sting? In his tail!
Katherina: In his tongue!
Petruchio: Whose tongue?
Katherina: Yours! -if you talk of tales, and so farewell!
Petruchio: What, with my tongue in your tail?
Butt
in order to clarify--and I'm not sure it even matters--
Hornets are super aggressive and sting is the worse (huge beehive like structure in tree)
The wasps pictured in your poem are not aggressive. That's why I said they don't really care.
You mentioned red wasps, here they are called mahogany even tough they look bright orange. Don't ask me, I made none of this names up. They are slightly more aggressive.
Potter wasps make a nest under leaves that if you turn right-side-up it looks like potter's bowl.
The ones underground are yelllow jackets and you were attacked because any type of vibration (especially things like power tools/mowers) are taken as an attack of the hive and themselves. And they sure feel those vibrations in the ground.
There are thousands more in this category, but all are paper wasps.
Mud daubers, hell I've held in my hand as well as clobbered their nests with my hands. About the only time these guys will sting is if you are holding them and close your fist.
Wasps can sting as many times as they want, after about 5-6 they will run out of venom for the moment, but just like snakes, it is replenished. Stinging will not kill wasps, unless you smack the bejeebus out of one for doing so.
And yeah, Africanized bees are scary, but the reason they are so damned "killer" is because their hives contain thousands and thousands of bees and like all social insects that sting (wasps included) once one sting, a pheromone bullseye is on you.
Even one tiny honey bee can kill someone if they are allergic ;-)
and now um yeah...more than anyone ever wanted to know.
mel the animal lover
Not sure where you are Ray, but I assume a scorpion infested area. (heh) ---your retort to Dale reminded me of Taming of the Shrew::
Petruchio: Come, come, you wasp! In faith you are too angry!
Katherina: If I be waspish, best beware my sting!
Petruchio: My remedy then is to pluck it out!
Katherina: Hah! Aye, if the fool could find where it lies!
Petruchio: Who knows not where a wasp doth wear his sting? In his tail!
Katherina: In his tongue!
Petruchio: Whose tongue?
Katherina: Yours! -if you talk of tales, and so farewell!
Petruchio: What, with my tongue in your tail?
Butt
in order to clarify--and I'm not sure it even matters--
Hornets are super aggressive and sting is the worse (huge beehive like structure in tree)
The wasps pictured in your poem are not aggressive. That's why I said they don't really care.
You mentioned red wasps, here they are called mahogany even tough they look bright orange. Don't ask me, I made none of this names up. They are slightly more aggressive.
Potter wasps make a nest under leaves that if you turn right-side-up it looks like potter's bowl.
The ones underground are yelllow jackets and you were attacked because any type of vibration (especially things like power tools/mowers) are taken as an attack of the hive and themselves. And they sure feel those vibrations in the ground.
There are thousands more in this category, but all are paper wasps.
Mud daubers, hell I've held in my hand as well as clobbered their nests with my hands. About the only time these guys will sting is if you are holding them and close your fist.
Wasps can sting as many times as they want, after about 5-6 they will run out of venom for the moment, but just like snakes, it is replenished. Stinging will not kill wasps, unless you smack the bejeebus out of one for doing so.
And yeah, Africanized bees are scary, but the reason they are so damned "killer" is because their hives contain thousands and thousands of bees and like all social insects that sting (wasps included) once one sting, a pheromone bullseye is on you.
Even one tiny honey bee can kill someone if they are allergic ;-)
and now um yeah...more than anyone ever wanted to know.
mel the animal lover