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I heard it was the co2 their attracted to.

I remember seeing those snake bite kits when I was a kid. You could get them at any sporting retailer or mail order, out of a field and stream magazine. By the 80's the word was that the cutting and sucking of a snake bite wound didn't amount to any benefit for the victim at all. I...

And apply tourniquet.

Would hate to have to use it, but....

I always assumed that plantain was native around here. well now...

Always good to see them first.

If ever I was going to have an allergic reaction that would have been the time.

I got about a hundred yards from the nest and lost the main swarm then started picking, smashing and wiping them off. Steve Van Horn came over and helped get the ones off my back and out of my hair. John Ciro got it just as bad. Some how Steve got out of the whole ordeal without a single sting.

A couple years ago was the worst encounter I ever had with ground bees. Could only estimate the amount of stings because they were so many and so close together in places. 30/40 or more on my back alone. My head, arms and the ones crawling up my pants leaving tracks of stings was that many in...

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At a logging camp way in the boon docks around Covelo, Ca. things can get pretty boring in the evenings. I'd throw a chicken bone on the ground and in minutes there would dozens of yellow jackets working on it. Now the bald face hornets, bad ass, are a yellow jackets number one predator...

It took a second to figure out how that fit in.

The bald faced hornets are the bad boys here. Feels like a brick hits you. Serious. The little ground nesting yellow jackets are hot hots and swarm you when their is disturbed. Not unusual to get hammered 20,30 or more times. Best thing to do around here, if you can, is dive into the...