Well I don't know so much about harmless... Those things are vicious when you manage to tick one off! They can jump pretty darned far, run really friggin fast and have a nasty bite... I always remember seeing pigeons and other birds in their webs when I lived in Florida. I recall them having a pretty nasty neurotoxin. I also remember learning how to shoot by target practicing on them with my dad's pellet rifle; it was pretty rewarding (messy) when you hit one though

 

Hoss, I have to admit, I'd pay a dollar to see that. I'm 49, 6'1" and a hair over 250. On his best day Michael Jackson couldn't move like me when those little so&so's were crawling my back side.

Personally, every place I got stung it hurt!

You can be my huckleberry. Fear has nothing to do with it, he stung me and I swatted him. His buddies showed up and started talking smack and the fight was on.

 

You got that right. I was riding my motorcycle one nice sunny day, enjoying the experience, when one of those little buggers flew in between my helmet and my head. Trying to maintain control of the motorcycle while stopping so I could kill that little so-and-so was quite a challenge.

 

It's the brown banana spiders (from South America ) that cant hurt ya.

 

I have never been stung. Just pay them no mine and you will be fine. I'm just stating my opinion take it or leave.

 

yea, u can get some really cool attatchements for skid steers. I like going to the bobcat website and watching the vids for the different attatchments, some can pretty much grind a tree down where it stands, lol. Hopefully i'll have a bobcat pretty soon, and I wanna get one of those flail mowers to clear brush and stuff.

 

I was waiting for you to find the one post embedded in a thread about yellowjackets that had the word "skidsteer" in it :P :P.

Both I, and my dad have hit a yellow jacket nest with a weed-eater before.

RUN FOREST RUN is all I can say.

 

I don't mind the bee's, it's the horse flys that I really hate...

 

I've got 3 or 4 different kinds of wasps / hornets around here. There are the Yellow jackets, the mud wasps, paper wasps ect. They are extra thick this year and more aggressive too.

What I want to know is just how in the world do you discourage the buggers from being around? I have tried the traps, you know the inverted cone looking things, the jars with the little cone-shaped entrance holes, the different kind of so-called baits that you put inside of the traps. Guess what, None of them work!!! Lord knows, I've found several different ways to kill the little buggers, (at the cost of a lot of money, time, and stings) what I need is a deterrent, something like that. Anyone know if they have a natural predator?

 

Ah, ok, the ones that I was refering to are the irredecant orange ones with the gray head.... Oh and the brown one's from south america are the one's that have the nasty neurotoxin, tend to be aggressive, and are extremely fast. Turns out the ones that I used to target practice on are the harmless ones. Even though I did miss one once and it did jump off it's web and chase me

 

Those little ones don't care. Even when you don't know they're around, so you don't even have time to show fear, they still decide to start something.

 

You must become one with nature.
Come be like me Daniel Son ( In my best Mr. Miyagi voice)

 

After extensive coaching, will I be able to pick them out of the air with chopsticks?

Or just be able to pick them off in mid-air with a can of spray?

 

You no listen
Dats why you get bitten.
You must be one with nature. No harm no foul.
Wax on wax off again!!

 

If i gotta do work around bees, i realize i aint gotta do work that bad.