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Yes, red wasps will dive bomb you and if you don't move, they will sting. I got stung on the calf once while mowing. Right after one dive bombed me and hit me on top of the head. Before I could react, the second one stung me. Oh man. You talk about painful.
Yep they're evil. I was moving an old cabinet that had been sitting in our backyard for some time. There was a nest underneath and one got me on the finger. Yowwwy, those suckers sting like a hot poker... I've been stung by all kinds of bees. Even a bumble bee sting on my stomach was nothing. I'll pass on the red wasps...
We have 2 hoot owls not far from the house, one on one side and one on the other and they have been quite vocal every night for a couple weeks now. We also have coyotes not far from the house and they get quite vocal around midnight..........aaaaaaauuuuuuuuuooooooooo
Same here, nms...those listed and fleas/ticks. Anything other living creature I capture and place outside...
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We try not to kill anything, either, red. I guess as we've "matured", we've learned to respect life more. Now, I have to admit I have no qualms about smushing mosquitoes or flies or those nasty little ants that crawl on my feet or arms or palmetto bugs. Pretty much everything else is safe around me.
This sounds beautiful...good walk---I love to go off trail...
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Originally Posted by Dayton Sux
Yesterday was Ground Hog Day, AKA Candlemas or Cross-Quarter Day.
Took a long walk at a new park I found, backing up onto a nature preserve. Great landscape and did some cross-country hiking and discovered this rushing, rocky brook in the heart of the woods!
Going to do some more off-the-trail explorations to see what I find deeper in the forest.
I should say this new area is a mix of bottomland prarie, steeper rive-valley slopes and ravines, and old fields going to forest on the uplands, with some mature forests. You can get this great mix of grasses, cedars, some young trees, etc. Almost like a savannah but with some more open prarie-esque areas. The woods have some trees that still have their fall leaves (oaks, I think), and you can hear the wind in them.
Good memories. The waxing moon up in the golden hour blue sky, over a cedar sitting in a little praire, backdrop that oak wood...everything just glowing in the bright late sun.
Place has some suprises...an alle' of young trees, with the trail covered in green moss. Nice.
The crocus are coming up between the snowdrops now. I guess I'm just a sucker for the first signs of spring but the fact is that spring comes early around these parts. As an official winter-hater, I've always loved that. Today I saw the first honey bee of the year, she was working overtime trying to make the rounds of all the snowdrops before the sun went down; I'm thinking that she was as grateful for the lengthening days as I am.
"The flowers appear on the earth; the time of singing has come."
~ Song of Solomon 2:12
They called crocus cuz when you step on them they croak.
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