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Killed it, now, what is it?
susie
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Heard the most horrendous buzzing in the house yesterday. Bug was trying to escape up the stainless range hood. Took it out post haste. Now, what the heck is it?
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And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Not a yellow jacket, too long and wide to be one of those nasty SOB's. I'm agreeing with Mr. Perfect, might be a European Hornet. Head and armor look the same as my bug.
The sound it was making when it was hitting the vent hood sounded as if someone was throwing rocks. Had me stumped at first as to what was going on in my kitchen. Living alone can sometimes make one imagine all kinds of scenarios
What did you shoot it with???
".....Now, what the heck is it?....."
If you had another 20 or 30 you would have pizza toppings
A fair percentage of my fellow Americans would call my thoughts on this subject racist!
I've been hit mostly by Red Wasps, Blacktails, and the small Guinea Wasps and, of course, Honey Bees, Bumble Bees, and Carpenter Bees, one of the two later ones was the size of a small hummingbird. I grabbed it from a large flower thinking it was a hummingbird. I guess I was around three, possibly four years old then. When I think of that sting and the throbbing in my finger, I think of Big Bertha, and someone gonging that monster 8 foot Univ of Texas drum on the football field...talk about throb. Terrible pain.
Once while playing hide and seek when I was five years old, among the sycamore limbs and leaves that hung over the top of my shotgun style house...I slowly moved a single leaf that was covering my eyes, and guess what, there was what looked to be a big nest of Red Wasps with their wings jacked out in attack mode. They hopped on my face, and my eyes were closed by the time I scrambled off the top of the house. Had at least a half dozen stings and also picked up a big splinter in my finger as I basically ran and slid off the side of the roof.
About two years later when I was between six and seven, all I was doing was looking at a Guinea Wasp nest under the eves of a high roof, and thinking about robbing it, when a scout took off from it and winged left and right, back and forth, then popped me on the left ear. Now that my friends was a sting for the ages. Talk about hurt. But as soon as I grabbed him he met a crushing death.
Thanks for the post ...and the memories.
European hornet (Vesta Crabro). Too small to be a Giant Asian hornet (Vespa Mandarinia)
European hornets are not indigenous. They were introduced many years ago.