bhiatt
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Post by bhiatt on Aug 5, 2013 19:47:42 GMT -5
You know that window that this guy(actually its a girl) hangs out in?... Look to the left... Look a little closer...Whoa! not that close... Thought I was going to get stung on the hand. They didnt seem all that worried I was there. Was only about 18" away. What a killer design and color pattern on this nest. Different looking than others Ive seen around. Some of those leaves are embedded into the nest. That one bee/wasp/hornet looks like it is working it in.
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Aug 5, 2013 21:51:56 GMT -5
Oh boy, bald faced hornets. Those puppies pack a punch. When they sting it feels like getting hit by a 2 x 4 and when the venom starts to wear off, man they itch. Do not provoke them and they are actually pretty easy to provoke too. My dad got into those once deer hunting and got the living daylights stung out of him. I've only been stung once and it was right on a par with our giant red paper wasps. No fun at all....Mel
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Post by Rockoonz on Aug 5, 2013 22:10:43 GMT -5
We had a nest right across the fence in the middle of a blackberry thicket in the neighbors yard last summer. Elizabeth was picking berries and got nailed by one, they were definitely aggressive.
Lee
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bhiatt
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Post by bhiatt on Aug 5, 2013 22:23:24 GMT -5
nice ID Mel. I didnt know what they were. They look badass though. I could see inside the hole and they were loaded in there. I read up on them after you mentioned what they were and they die off in the winter except for the queen and they go in the ground. Coming back out in spring but starting all over with new nest.
Im excited to be able to get this one. Always wanted a nest like this. Seen a few big bee hives before but they were always in somebody elses trees. This one is all mine when winter time comes. The different color patterns in this one is pretty cool looking. I googled some pics of this particular hornet nest and this one is pretty showy looking.
Have to take another photo if it gets any bigger. This one seems to be average size.
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Post by Pat on Aug 5, 2013 23:18:57 GMT -5
Impressive! If a rock, would make attractive cabs What is the critter in the window? Kitty ears and alligator tail?
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Aug 6, 2013 3:35:57 GMT -5
Make sure they are dead or gone Bhiatt. Sometimes they are cold and inactive until they warm up in the house:)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2013 16:01:42 GMT -5
Impressive! If a rock, would make attractive cabs What is the critter in the window? Kitty ears and alligator tail? Hi Pat, Brad has a Bearded Dragon (Pogona vitticeps). They are by far the finest pet lizard. I just imported 70 of them from South Africa for a few clients. Mutants all of them. jamesp they went thru Atlanta airport! lol My faves are the ones with no scales!
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Post by rockpickerforever on Aug 6, 2013 16:06:52 GMT -5
What a strange morph, I've never seen scaleless before!
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Post by bushmanbilly on Aug 6, 2013 16:14:27 GMT -5
The new spray foam wasp killer works great. Used it a few times. Had a nest in my house siding and one in my apple tree. Just go out at night and fill their entrance hole. Leave the nest in place after. Other wasps will think the yard is occupied and will not set up home there.
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Post by Pat on Aug 6, 2013 16:32:33 GMT -5
Scott, thanks. He's pretty cute.
My husband removes hives by waiting till dusk so the wasps are all inside, then takes a black plastic garbage bag and pulls it up over the hive and closes the bag top and removes it from the tree. They die after a while. We put it in the garbage can. He's never been bitten.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Aug 6, 2013 17:23:56 GMT -5
The dog kennel that keeps the Customs police/smell dogs is right down the road from here. Celebrity Kennels
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2013 17:39:44 GMT -5
Hey bhiatt keep us updated on the progress of your prolonged pilfering of that proper paper wasp nest. Sorry about all the alliteration. I got carried away. I am hungry!
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robsrockshop
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Post by robsrockshop on Aug 6, 2013 18:00:20 GMT -5
I recommend straping 14 sticks of TNT and 5 gallons of gas to it with a remote detonator. Might want to cover the roof under it with a piece of cardboard. LOL.
What a find, I can think of 2 mailboxes i'd love to stick it in.
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bhiatt
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Post by bhiatt on Aug 7, 2013 17:20:43 GMT -5
just checked on them. Looks like they have been working on the hive still. Filling in on the bottom area. I shined a light out there last night and they were still crawling over the hive. Im not risking one sting. Ill try and hold off til winter when they die off. They really aint bothering anybody. Kinda in a neat spot where I can keep checking them out. Usually hives are way up in trees(the ones Ive seen). This one is eye level. Pretty cool.
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bhiatt
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Post by bhiatt on Aug 7, 2013 17:28:44 GMT -5
Impressive! If a rock, would make attractive cabs What is the critter in the window? Kitty ears and alligator tail? Hi Pat, Brad has a Bearded Dragon (Pogona vitticeps). They are by far the finest pet lizard. I just imported 70 of them from South Africa for a few clients. Mutants all of them. jamesp they went thru Atlanta airport! lol My faves are the ones with no scales! Pretty cool looking dragon. Never seen a bearded dragon like that, especially without scales. How many morphs are there of bearded dragons? When I got mine there werent any. This one I got, her mother was a wild bearded dragon. Got her right when the bearded dragons got popular. Only a few days old and I seen the shell she came from. She is the easiest laid back reptile to have. Mine gets orange around the eyes sometimes.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2013 17:47:36 GMT -5
I had my first dragons in 1996. By 1999 the price was down to $50ea.
I doubt she is that old? Possible.
Wild dragons were all smuggled from Australia. Mostly by Germans.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2013 17:47:53 GMT -5
There are dozens of morphs and mutations.
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bhiatt
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Post by bhiatt on Aug 7, 2013 18:43:52 GMT -5
I know for shure it was 1995 or 1996 at latest. She cost $50 then as hatchling.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2013 19:08:16 GMT -5
wow! she is 17 years old!??!?! Woot! Congrats. Most females die at 5 years old, very few make 10. Wow! Good for you.
Did I say wow?
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bhiatt
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Post by bhiatt on Aug 7, 2013 19:57:58 GMT -5
wow! she is 17 years old!??!?! Woot! Congrats. Most females die at 5 years old, very few make 10. Wow! Good for you. Did I say wow? yeah I started a topic about her(the bearded dragon) not all that long ago. I also had a jacksons chameleon back around 1997-98. Lived 5 years. Thing was pretty cool. Lived in a indoor 8 ft tree, not a cage. Would shoot its sticky tongue out and get crickets out of my hand. It actually liked being held and would come to me out of the tree. Had a hatchling jackson also, but it died after about two weeks. Thing was the size of my pinky nail. I think the guy said like half of them dont make it to adult. Had a leopard gecko also when they started becoming popular around 97 or so. Ended up giving that one to a girl I dated when I was in high school. Her dad turned me onto reptiles. He had a few.
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