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kathyv · Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 6:59 am Post subject: A brutal attack

Today my hubby was out mowing the grass. He hauls the clippings to the compost heap across the creek by our pasture gate, in order to do this he has to go a few feet down the street past an old prune tree.

Today he was walking along pushing his wheel barrow and felt something hit him on the shoulder then a terrible burning feeling. He thought he'd been hit by a BB or something!

He looked at the spot under his shirt and found he'd been stung. About then he saw 3 more bald hornets buzzing around him and he got out of there!

He came in the house so I could Dr it for him. I told him he was lucky he had his shirt on, if it had got him on the bare skin he would have been in a lot more pain, might even have lost his arm! LOL

I felt bad enough for him that I went down to the store and got him some ice cream. On my way home I passed him, he was headed to the store to get some wasp spray. He said it was WAR! He'd shot the little I had in the can in the house at the nest in the tree, made them even madder and ran out of spray.

Luckily he didn't get stung again.

Of course the wind was blowing like crazy, the tree was blowing all around and here he is trying to aim a thin stream of wasp spray at super hornets!

I guess he managed to fairly saturate the nest with the spray then cut it down and threw it in the burning barrel.

Bye bye bald hornets!

Boy, they are bad this year. Nasty things!

The poor man has a puffy shoulder but went off to work this evening, said it didn't hurt much.

What's nasty where you are that may bite you or sting you with no warning?

OOOOWWWWW!

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Babygael · Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:41 am Post subject:

That sounded nasty kathyv! Hope all is well now!

My most hated nasty is a centipede......yuk,yuk,yuk. I know of a dog who lost his paw as a result of a sting from one of those disgusting,cringy,revolting,horrendeous,vile things!! They even smell weird!

Although they have crawled over me at one time or another,for some reason which I am extreamly pleased about, I somehow have never been stung by one. But for sure I turn into a crazed centipede killer whenever I see one!!!

Yuk,yuk, cringe!!
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mairead · Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:13 am Post subject:

Wasps are what I hate most and I kill them with a vengeance whenever I can.
I had to take down 2 nests, one of which was right at my back door, last year, but there is not many of the beasties about so far this year and no nests.
My neighbour who knows everything, (he thinks) said I should just have left the nests alone as they were so small. Not being country raised, I guess he didn't know how big they can grow or how quickly.
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Holebender · Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 9:43 am Post subject:

Tell them tae get on their bike!
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mairead · Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 3:11 pm Post subject:

ooooh, we have a comedian here too. LOL
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kathyv · Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 6:30 pm Post subject:

mairead, you don't have many wasps because they are all HERE!!

I got stung last night cleaning out the bunny barn at the fairgrounds, getting ready for the show, and there is still a mark under my arm. Nasty, awful things!

I know what you mean about folks not from rural areas not understanding things. We had a tire come off a horse trailer about 300 miles from home. I called the hubby to come help because the whole tire, rim and everything just came off and rolled away. Anyway the hubby and his friend came from home with another horse trailer and we took the colt I was bringing home out of the bigger, broken trailer and put it in the smaller, working trailer. (Then the hubby did something to the springs above the lost tire and we could drive but it was sure bumpy.) Anyway, we got the colt out of the broken trailer fine but there was no way it wanted to go back in another, smaller one, so we had 2 men pulling and shoving the thing, 2 little girls trying to entice it ahead with treats and grass and me thumping it on the rump to get it to move ahead and some guy came over and suggested that we blind fold it because that works in the movies! I told him I wanted the colt to see where it was going!
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Babygael · Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 12:20 pm Post subject:

They blind fold the Race horses when they won't go into the starting gates. But if you link hands firmly behind the horses bum with someone else and pull forward, it usually works! its also a great way of not getting kicked too! Cool

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kathyv · Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 6:13 pm Post subject:

Yea, the difference is they've been taught to go in and know what they are in for, I don't like doing that to babies when they are scared anyway and have no idea where they are going and it looks scary anyway.

If they are just balking it works, if it's fear that's a different story.

The sting I got at the Fairgrounds last night blistered up like a pimple, maybe it was a teen aged wasp that got me!
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ladyinthemists · Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 10:28 pm Post subject:

We have hornets and wasps up here in our mountains but there is yet another, dreaded critter that is even more vicious! They call them "no see 'ums" because these tiny biting gnats are so small that they can actually get through window screens. They come around in the summertime in swarms. They just seem to LOVE my blood! Their bites make big whelps and they itch like crazy! They thoroughly enjoy getting between eyeglasses and the wearer of those eyeglasses. For those who don't wear eyeglasses, they just fly right into your eyes! And don't open your mouth very much or they'll fly right in. YUCK!! I loathe those nasty little things!
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Babygael · Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:28 am Post subject:

Those no see ums!! Over here they are called merry wings or sand fly's bluidy awfull they are too!! Razz

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