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Re: I was attacked today

By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
Sat, 27 Jun 20 9:00 PM | 29 view(s)
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Manure deliveries to two future garden plots.





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By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE
Sat, 27 Jun 20 8:34 PM 		Msg. 02718 of 60014

I had two pickup loads of manure being brought in today and needed to pull the plastic down from the future garden plots so there'd be a place to dump the piles. The plastic was weighted down by a combination of rocks, sacks of dirt, wood pallets, boards, tree branches, metal pipes - pretty much whatever I had that would resist blowing away. It took a while to clear.

At some point, something stung my left leg, behind the knee. I yelped and swatted at it with my garden glove but nothing was there. A second later, my right leg was stung. Then behind the left knee again. Then my wrist. I stood out there for a few seconds swatting, yelping, looking around for the culprit and almost thinking I was imagining it, then finally saw something buzzing by.

By then, I'd decided to head indoors. Whatever it was followed. When I'd gotten maybe 15 feet from the original attack, I saw something BIG and black. Bumblebee sized. At that point I made a run for it.

When I got inside, I told my wife I'd been attacked and stung about ten times. However, we could only find THREE marks, all swelling and lightly bleeding. Heh. I hope the little suckers find themselves overdosing on WARFARIN.

I put on a long-sleeve shirt, jeans instead of shorts, and a head net designed to keep bugs out, then headed out again. I got to where I'd seen the big black thing and darned if it wasn't still there. I had wasp spray, so I downed it. My wife took the video above and THINKS it's a Carpenter Bee.

Back to work... and I found a baseball sized yellow-jacket nest inside one of the wood pallets I'd upended. Okay, so now I think they were the real culprits and the poor Carpenter Bee was just an unfortunate soul who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.

The yellow jacket nest met the same fate. A massive dose of wasp spray and the threat was neutralized.

The left leg still stings a bit, btw. The right leg and wrist are fine...

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