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2005-08-27 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Chris W. 2005-08-27 02:08|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Uh, yellow jackets, why do they hate us? Now THERE is an insect with an attitude!

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-08-27 13:32|| 2005-08-27 13:32|| Front Page Top

#2 Got that right,AP.Those buggers will attack if you give them a harsh look and the sting hurts like hell.

Posted by raptor 2005-08-27 13:59|| 2005-08-27 13:59|| Front Page Top

#3 I've been stung by both yellow jackets and honey bees, and the yellow jacket sting was MUCH less painful. But the swarm factor could be a problem...

Posted by Seafarious">Seafarious 2005-08-27 13:59|| 2005-08-27 13:59|| Front Page Top

#4 When I worked at a copper mine in NW Alaska in the late 60s, we had a big, mean yellojacket nest right near the door of the blasting cap shed. Needless to say that many countermeasure options were discarded as clever and diabolical, but impractical and downright dangerous.

We finally hosed them down with Blazo (white gas, naptha) on a foggy day (high humidity). The gas soaked into the nest and ruined their day. Even after we removed the nest, dozens of those that were gone during the raid came buzzing around, saying "WTF?"

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2005-08-27 14:21|| 2005-08-27 14:21|| Front Page Top

#5 The NCAA would suggest that the surly Yellow Jacket attitude comes from the insensitive use of their name in school mascots. What else could it be? Nature?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2005-08-27 15:45|| 2005-08-27 15:45|| Front Page Top

#6 I've been stung by both yellow jackets and honey bees, and the yellow jacket sting was MUCH less painful. But the swarm factor could be a problem

What? Yellow Jackets are ground hornets trainned killers of the wasp world - they're also non-suicidal a can getcha multipule times.

Youse mistake but buzzers or got a mutant.

Posted by Shipman 2005-08-27 15:59|| 2005-08-27 15:59|| Front Page Top

#7 #6 I've been stung by both yellow jackets and honey bees, and the yellow jacket sting was MUCH less painful. But the swarm factor could be a problem

What? Yellow Jackets are ground hornets trainned killers of the wasp world - they're also non-suicidal a can getcha multipule times.

Youse mistake but buzzers or got a mutant.

I've been hit by a mud dauber wasp in Ohio. It was no honeybee sting, I can tell you that (the only time I ever leapt 6 feet straight up over a bridge embankment wondering what had happened).

I was going to say that yellow jackets are members of the paper wasp family that make their nests underground, but it appears Shipman beat me to it.

Nevertheless, wasps can sting you multiple times and not die. Honeybees suicide when they sting because the stinger is barbed and the venom sac is pulled out of the bees body killing it when it tries to pull away. The venom sac continues to pump the venom into the victim through subsequent spasms.

Honeybees only sting when they have no other choice (African killer bees notwithstanding - they're exceptionally irritable) as it kills them. Wasps are natures' psychopaths - stinging on a whim - and they can keep it up all day.

Thanks,
LC FOTSGreg

Posted by LC FOTSGreg">LC FOTSGreg 2005-08-27 16:50|| 2005-08-27 16:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Our continued support for Raidisrael may explain why the Beeslastinians hate us.

Posted by The Angry Fliegerabwehrkanonen 2005-08-27 17:05|| http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com]">[http://www.calderonswirbelwind.blogspot.com] 2005-08-27 17:05|| Front Page Top

#9 LOL

Posted by Shipman 2005-08-27 19:30|| 2005-08-27 19:30|| Front Page Top

#10 There were mud daubers all over My grandparents' place in Indiana and they never stung anyone there. The regular (reddish bodied) wasps sure did, and bees of course. Of course, maybe our "mud daubers" weren't really that and were some other kind of critter. They looked just like the stinging wasps, but were blue-black. Their nests looked like Pan-pipes made of mud.

Posted by Jackal">Jackal 2005-08-27 19:51|| home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html]">[home.earthlink.net/~sleepyjackal/index.html] 2005-08-27 19:51|| Front Page Top

#11 You are all the diet coke of evil!! I am the queen!! I Jihad on you!! Sting, sting, sting!!

Posted by Q. Bee VII 2005-08-27 21:40|| 2005-08-27 21:40|| Front Page Top

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