Yeah, fortunate to be alive Pat. I wouldn't bee surprised to learn that they react to color Jay. I know yellow flies here are attracted to black as well. Black painted beach balls coated with Tanglefoot, Tangle Trap or Sticky Stuff are hanging on strings in nearly every yard here in the summer...
Some pretty cool stories! I've read about the Asian Wasps and they sound like pretty bad dudes. I've got some squirrel stories but one that comes to mind first has nothing to do with tree work. When I was Troubleman, I went on a transformer outage and sure enough the fuse on the transformer was...
That's the one and only good thing about hornets Mick, you can usually see the nest and avoid them. Bumblebees on the other hand sometimes nest in an abandoned squirrel nest and you don't know they are there 'til it's too late. They'll chase you almost like yellow jackets and their sting is...
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We've got gobs of the giant banana spiders but you just swat 'em out of the way as you go but I have seen grown men carry on pretty good when a big web wraps around their face.
Just curious to see what other climbers would consider to be their most dreaded encounter in the tree, be it honey bees, wasps, hornets, bumblebees or something else.
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