"Omelet" <omp_omelet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:omp_omelet-458E17.08295805102007@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In article <47061e78$0$20638$4c368faf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Wooly <nobody@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Dave wrote:
>> > The closest thing I've found on the internet is the paper wasp for
>> > resemblance. 2 exceptions. Way to small, and the abdomen is red in
>> > color
>> > as well. What is it?
>> > Paper wasp:
>> > http://insects.tamu.edu/fieldguide/cimg348.html
>> >
>> > Looks like this, definitely.
>> > http://home.att.net/~larvalbugbio/beast/archbeast3-05.html
>> >
>> > Ones I've seen west of Wimberley approach 3" in length. A sting from
>> > one
>> > of
>> > these is no joke. Pain lasts for hours. No, not allergic.
>> > Dave
>> >
>> >
>>
>> http://bugguide.net/node/view/581
>>
>> I am allergic. One of those suckers hit me in 1998, I used 3 epi pens
>> getting to the ER alive.
>
> As much as I dislike killing wasps, I do those.
> They are just too aggressive.
> --
> Peace, Om
I have a bunch of red wasps around my house and my wife and I call them
"pet
wasps" because they're so docile. I usually even have a few that follow me
around when I cut the grass - I guess looking for bugs that the mower
stirs-up. One day last spring, there were several in a shrub that I was
trimming. They came flying out as I neared with the trimmers, flew to a
near
by lawn chair and perched like birds on the top of the chair until I was
finished and then flew right back to the area I just finished trimming.
I've
never been stung by any of these guys...of I guess girls after reading the
TAMU info. :)
|
