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Joined: Dec 2004
Posts: 20,183 Likes: 81
Freak of Nature
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Joined: Dec 2004
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I told my boys when they got from work today to pull weeds in the back yard. Well I got home and they were just starting. No problem. I told them I’d help and get it knocked out. We get after it and in a little bit one of my boys says “dad, come look at this bug”. I told him to get after it and forget the bug. He insisted and said it looked like a wasp. I go over to where he’s at and he is on all fours, leaning over the biggest yellow jacket nest I’ve ever seen. Thank God they didn’t come out. They got a good 2-3 gallon drink of gasoline.
Last edited by ford150man; 07/14/26 07:36 PM.
If voting made any difference, they wouldn’t let us do it.-Mark Twain
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Joined: Mar 2005
Posts: 5,949 Likes: 90
Skinny's Property
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Joined: Mar 2005
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They usually don’t get real pissy til late August through September. Then its on.
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Joined: Jun 2011
Posts: 2,608 Likes: 24
10 point
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Joined: Jun 2011
Posts: 2,608 Likes: 24 |
The yellow jackets around my farm are peezed off all the time. Demons of satan. Especially those ground dwelling one's.
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Posts: 2,609 Likes: 9
10 point
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Joined: Apr 2013
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I don’t care how expensive gasoline gets. I’m always a buyer when it comes to pouring it into a yellow jacket nest.
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Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 1,085 Likes: 60
6 point
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Joined: Jan 2014
Posts: 1,085 Likes: 60 |
Glad no one was hurt. I thought this was going to be about a snake. Almost got bite by a copperhead pulling some weeds around my peas last year.
Last edited by rhino21; 07/14/26 11:48 PM.
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Posts: 12,684 Likes: 120
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Dec 2016
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I’ve never seen them when they weren’t ready to attack
When I need expert advice I tend to talk to myself
The older I get the better I used to be
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Posts: 27,503 Likes: 29
Talking Turkey
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Talking Turkey
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A couple years ago I was walking out two dogs in the woods on an old 4wheeler trail. Dogs were off the leash but maybe 10 yds in front of me. One of them stirred up a jacket nest and I walked right into the swarm not knowing until the first one hit me. I took off running and those things chased me for I know 50 yds or more. I would up with 11 stings out of that deal.
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Posts: 4,229 Likes: 1
10 point
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I’ve never seen them when they weren’t ready to attack
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Posts: 81,879 Likes: 513
GUVNER
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GUVNER
Joined: Aug 2001
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I’ve never seen them when they weren’t ready to attack
"Never Trust Government" -- Smart people.
"The Great thing we should Fear and the Weird Thing we Trust is Elon Musk" -- Me
"You can be broke but you cant be poor." -- Ruthie-May Webster
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Posts: 13,878 Likes: 53
Booner
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Booner
Joined: Feb 2008
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I told my boys when they got from work today to pull weeds in the back yard. Well I got home and they were just starting. No problem. I told them I’d help and get it knocked out. We get after it and in a little bit one of my boys says “dad, come look at this bug”. I told him to get after it and forget the bug. He insisted and said it looked like a wasp. I go over to where he’s at and he is on all fours, leaning over the biggest yellow jacket nest I’ve ever seen. Thank God they didn’t come out. They got a good 2-3 gallon drink of gasoline. That's funny
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10 point
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Dad was pulling weeds in the garden years ago and got 'stung' by a small cottonmouth. Went to the shed to get a shovel, killed it and then went to the ER/hospital for 3 days. Nasty looking fingers with swelling up his arm but managed to keep all his digits. Gots to be careful diggin'em weeds!!
"We aren't here to justify your feelings and give you self worth" - Aldeer Welcome Center
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Skinny's Property
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Skinny's Property
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I guess Im just lucky. Running a Lawn Maintenance business for over 30 years Ive run nest over with mowers and used the weed eater right on top of nest many many times. Never been stung til late August into all of September. Many of my Lawn Service friends tell me thats their experience also.
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