Monty
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- Jan 26, 2005
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Started to post this under today's finds, but Jeff would probaboy just move it!? I found a hole in the ground about the size of my finger and was getting a coin target hit right next to it.? I stuck my digger into the ground and out came a swarm of wasps!? They looked just like yellow jackets except they were only about an eigth of an inch long!? All the yellow jackets I have seen in my whole life around here were much bigger, about half an inch or longer.? Anyhway, I'm calling them Hypodermic Wasps!? Like a fool I stood there? and watched them since I hadn't ever seen any like them before and one stung me on the arm!? It felt like a large hypodermic needle being shoved into my arm!? Needless to say I got my arse out of there!? That was nearly two hours ago and it still hurts a little bit.? Didn't even make a welt though that I can find, just a little red spot!? I was pretty close to a tennis court and playground using my 4" coil to run along the sidewalks when they got me.? I started to leave and thought about some small child perhaps stepping on them or sitting on them so I went home and got my bug spray and went back.? I was shooting black flag into the hole while they were trying to fly out.? I killed about a dozen on the surface around the hole and shot a good stream down into the hole.? ?They had tunneled back under the sidewalk and I don't know what damage I did to the nest.? I saw several return from wherever they had been and fly into the nest but none flying badk out.? I hope I got them!? I'll go back this afternoon and see if I see any more flying out.
We got our much needed rain, but how do you turn it off?? It's rained pretty steady now for two days and everything is drenched.? It's forecast to ain right on up until Thursday morning and clear off, only to return again Friday and over the week end!? Haven't got out much but found a 1959 nickel this morning and six clad pennies when I wasn't fighting wasps!? JIM
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I won the battle with the wasps but lost the war to the insects! This morning I went back to the historic site I mentioned in and earlier post. I had just dug my second coin and had ventured only a few feet into the area when a swarm of mosquitos as big as sparrows attacked me. I grabbed my stuff and headed back to the truck but they got me about 25 times befor I could go the hundred feet to my truck! And talk abut itch! I had a bottle of insect repellent in the truck so I sprayed down good with it and went back. Those darn blood sucking vampires ignored the insect repellent and began eating me again! So, back to the truck I ran, jumped in, locked the doors and rolled up the windows! I swear one was inside the truck trying to pry open the lock knob to let the others in. They swarmed around my truck and started rocking it back and forth trying to turn it over and I I could hear chanting , "We want blood, we want blood"! I had flash backs to the old movie, "The Night of the Living Dead"! Weakended from the loss of blood I barely got the truck started and edged out of the parking lot, running over several thousand and leaving the pavement soaked in red! ...........Well, it seemed that way to me! I went to the local Wally World and bought two cans of 40% Deet spray and I am going back tomorrow with the new repellant and a couple cans of that Yard Guard fogger spray. The war is on!! JIM
We got our much needed rain, but how do you turn it off?? It's rained pretty steady now for two days and everything is drenched.? It's forecast to ain right on up until Thursday morning and clear off, only to return again Friday and over the week end!? Haven't got out much but found a 1959 nickel this morning and six clad pennies when I wasn't fighting wasps!? JIM
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I won the battle with the wasps but lost the war to the insects! This morning I went back to the historic site I mentioned in and earlier post. I had just dug my second coin and had ventured only a few feet into the area when a swarm of mosquitos as big as sparrows attacked me. I grabbed my stuff and headed back to the truck but they got me about 25 times befor I could go the hundred feet to my truck! And talk abut itch! I had a bottle of insect repellent in the truck so I sprayed down good with it and went back. Those darn blood sucking vampires ignored the insect repellent and began eating me again! So, back to the truck I ran, jumped in, locked the doors and rolled up the windows! I swear one was inside the truck trying to pry open the lock knob to let the others in. They swarmed around my truck and started rocking it back and forth trying to turn it over and I I could hear chanting , "We want blood, we want blood"! I had flash backs to the old movie, "The Night of the Living Dead"! Weakended from the loss of blood I barely got the truck started and edged out of the parking lot, running over several thousand and leaving the pavement soaked in red! ...........Well, it seemed that way to me! I went to the local Wally World and bought two cans of 40% Deet spray and I am going back tomorrow with the new repellant and a couple cans of that Yard Guard fogger spray. The war is on!! JIM
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And whoever says honey bees dont sting can go put there face in some flowers full of em, cause they do sting! I get stung by them on a regular basis in fact 
If you try to run through a field of tall flowers in the woods you are gauranteed at least a tick and a honey bee sting. I guess the bees are angry that you disturbed their flowers :P
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