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Red wasp
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/be...beast3-05.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 |
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Wooly nobody@nunya 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/be...beast3-05.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 Remove _ to validate e-mails. "Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their foot down." -- Steve Rothstein |
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Wooly nobody@nunya wrote: Omelet wrote: As much as I dislike killing wasps, I do those. They are just too aggressive. I'm very much a "live and let live" sort of person. I make an exception for most bugs that come into the house. I send my husband to do battle with the red buggers when they try to set up housekeeping in my eaves or the shed. I make exceptions for fire ants, mosquitos and weevils too. g -- Peace, Om Remove _ to validate e-mails. "Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their foot down." -- Steve Rothstein |
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Omelet wrote:
In article , Wooly nobody@nunya wrote: Omelet wrote: As much as I dislike killing wasps, I do those. They are just too aggressive. I'm very much a "live and let live" sort of person. I make an exception for most bugs that come into the house. I send my husband to do battle with the red buggers when they try to set up housekeeping in my eaves or the shed. I make exceptions for fire ants, mosquitos and weevils too. g I used to kill them indiscriminately until I saw one take out the tomato horn worms eating up my plants. I only do the ones in human activity areas now. |
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jOhN wrote: Omelet wrote: In article , Wooly nobody@nunya wrote: Omelet wrote: As much as I dislike killing wasps, I do those. They are just too aggressive. I'm very much a "live and let live" sort of person. I make an exception for most bugs that come into the house. I send my husband to do battle with the red buggers when they try to set up housekeeping in my eaves or the shed. I make exceptions for fire ants, mosquitos and weevils too. g I used to kill them indiscriminately until I saw one take out the tomato horn worms eating up my plants. I only do the ones in human activity areas now. Good thought. -- Peace, Om Remove _ to validate e-mails. "Human nature seems to be to control other people until they put their foot down." -- Steve Rothstein |
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"Wooly" nobody@nunya wrote in message
... Omelet wrote: As much as I dislike killing wasps, I do those. They are just too aggressive. I'm very much a "live and let live" sort of person. I make an exception for most bugs that come into the house. I send my husband to do battle with the red buggers when they try to set up housekeeping in my eaves or the shed. As noted in my "Ouch" post, I found some in the wellhouse. The nest was on inside of the door. One came out immediately and stung my right upper ear. I did swatting battle with 2 of them for a bit. Managed to swat one to the ground and stomp on it. The other fleed elsewhere. I removed the nest. Dave |
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"Omelet" wrote in message
news In article , Wooly nobody@nunya 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/be...beast3-05.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. |
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"charliekilo" wrote in message
... "Omelet" wrote in message news In article , Wooly nobody@nunya 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/be...beast3-05.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. Agreed, they live and let live. Unless you stumble upon their actively used nest, which is normally hidden from sight. Dave |
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