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Posted by Racer on June 20, 2005, at 18:33:14
I mean, besides the basic part about being allergic to most bug bites and stings...
Bugs freak me out. I'm a total and complete wimp about bugs. I get totally creeped out by bugs, especially if they fly. I can't stand being around flying bugs. Flying bugs are enough to keep me stuck inside. I won't go outside if there are flying bugs around that I can see. I don't like bugs that fly. Especially big ones. Especially big, black flying bugs that look like obese black bees. Or wasps. I don't like big, black, flying bugs that look obese black bees or wasps.
Why do I bring this up? Well, I was out on my balcony, sitting there, minding my own business, smoking a cigarette (yeah, well, I know...), and enjoying my comfortable place in the sun, near my new miniature roses. Suddenly, from out of nowhere, comes what looks like a huge, obese, black, flying bee! Sucker must have been nearly an inch and a half long, nearly spherical, and looked like a fat bee, or maybe a giant horsefly. (Ever been bitten by a deerfly? I get little welts, and it hurts enough that you know you've been bitten for an hour or so. Horsefly? Thank goodness we hardly have them around the barns out here!)
Maybe it was a giant horsefly. Those suckers have nasty biting parts, don't they? Ugh.
Now there's a wasp out there, hanging around the pineapple mint. I love the pineapple mint, but not the wasp.
And through it all? I'm having a nicotine fit, and the saddest part was me sitting right inside the door, watching my abandoned cigarette burn down to the nubs, while I sheltered from a nasty, ugly, enormous, black, flying insect that looked like an obese bee.
Posted by allisonm on June 20, 2005, at 21:15:49
In reply to Why I'm not an entymologist..., posted by Racer on June 20, 2005, at 18:33:14
Could be a carpenter bee. They are big and round, fly slowly kind of like a B-52 bomber or a C-17 cargo plane, and emit a low buzzing sound. If you find perfectly round holes about an inch in diameter in your eaves or other wood trim, along with what looks like sawdust, you have carpenter bees. They won't bother you. Most flying, stinging things are too busy with other tasks. We get them in the store, and I escort them out by inviting them to climb upon my flyswatter, then shake them loose through an open window. They are killable with that hornet spray stuff that you can get in a home and garden store...that stuff that kills on contact. It really works. Kinda scary how well it works...
Posted by NikkiT2 on June 21, 2005, at 8:25:14
In reply to Why I'm not an entymologist..., posted by Racer on June 20, 2005, at 18:33:14
Gotta point you to an offshoot of this post on social.. started by PC :)
We're singing the joys of bee's *grins*
Posted by shar on July 6, 2005, at 22:08:13
In reply to Why I'm not an entymologist..., posted by Racer on June 20, 2005, at 18:33:14
Yep, in Texas we have all sorts of critters to get used to.
Plus, I'm a smoker, too (and I know some others here are too, but I won't out them).
Anyhow, we have what we call mud daubers (may not be the correct spelling) that are BIG and BLACK and look quite menacing...however, they don't (in Texas) bite, sting, etc.
I'm wondering if that's what you have? Have you resolved the problem? Maybe one of those zzzzt-zzzzt-zzzzt flying bug killers?
lolol. Hope you can still smoke (yes, I know...it's the scourge of human existence!).
Shar
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