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Title: I'm baaaaack Post by: Lord Lanair on August 15, 2005, 01:33:19 AM So, I'm back from my camping trip to the Adirondacks... it was fun being surrounded by wildlife (i.e. hungry chipmunks and mosquitos), but I'm happy to be back here. :D
Title: I'm baaaaack Post by: mole on August 15, 2005, 01:44:56 AM loose any limbs? vital organs? or elongations?
Title: I'm baaaaack Post by: smi256 on August 18, 2005, 06:52:37 AM Only female mosquitoes bite, and only when getting ready to lay their eggs, so if it makes you feel any better... never mind, that's just wrong; not even the yiff folk here would appreciate such a stupid comment. <_<
Title: I'm baaaaack Post by: mole on August 19, 2005, 12:51:45 AM i was treking through tick filled undergrowth today, wasnt the loveliest of things
i also saw a hornet up close for thre first time the other day and my god! theyre the evilist looking things youll even see with wings! Title: I'm baaaaack Post by: Lord Lanair on August 20, 2005, 04:27:53 AM Quote Only female mosquitoes bite, and only when getting ready to lay their eggs, so if it makes you feel any better... never mind, that's just wrong; not even the yiff folk here would appreciate such a stupid comment. <_< Yeah, I've heard that. Something about needing the protein in blood for the eggs... :unsure: Um... what makes hornets so evil? Granted they look scary, but I wonder what we look like to them (armed with our cans of bug spray and swatters). LOL Title: I'm baaaaack Post by: Hornet on August 20, 2005, 12:34:13 PM Quote i also saw a hornet up close for thre first time the other day and my god! theyre the evilist looking things youll even see with wings! I have wings? :miffed: A hornet, for the uninitiated: (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fd/Hornet-vespa.jpg) Title: I'm baaaaack Post by: matt_the_shark on August 23, 2005, 02:19:38 AM hehe, what a coincidence, I was up camping in the adirondaks that very same for a boy scout summer camp type thing. damn mosquitoes ate me up :/
Title: I'm baaaaack Post by: Lord Lanair on August 23, 2005, 06:12:01 AM Hmm.. did you use that bug attractant otherwise known as "Natrapel" (it's a citronella-based "repellant?") too? LOL
Hey hornet- what's the difference between a hornet, wasp, and yellowjacket? :miffed: Title: I'm baaaaack Post by: Saladin on August 23, 2005, 07:38:32 PM hornets don't die when they sting and wasps eat bugs
Title: I'm baaaaack Post by: mole on August 23, 2005, 07:58:56 PM thats not a hornet. thats just a wasp thats been taken up close! hornets dont have those antanni and there bodys are a lot bigger without so much defined markings
i saw one hanging upside down above my head a few weeks ago so i took a good look Title: I'm baaaaack Post by: Lord Lanair on August 24, 2005, 05:17:35 AM Quote hornets don't die when they sting and wasps eat bugs So what do the other two species eat? :miffed: Title: I'm baaaaack Post by: Hornet on August 24, 2005, 09:22:46 PM Mole, what you were looking at was not a hornet. This is a hornet. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornet) Note that it's exactly the same image as I posted. For comparision, I offer Wasps (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasp) and Yellowjackets (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowjacket). Title: I'm baaaaack Post by: mole on August 25, 2005, 07:36:50 PM no what i saw was none of those :miffed:
Title: I'm baaaaack Post by: smi256 on August 25, 2005, 08:05:39 PM There are many different types, and it's not a good idea to piss off just about any one of them. :ph34r:
Title: I'm baaaaack Post by: mole on August 25, 2005, 09:30:39 PM well this thing looked like it could bite my arm off so i kinda stood still till my friend (unhurriedly) got out of the front door
Title: I'm baaaaack Post by: Lord Lanair on August 26, 2005, 03:21:45 AM Heh, I usually leave insects alone, but I try to shoo away/kill the stinging variety. :miffed:
Title: I'm baaaaack Post by: Saladin on August 26, 2005, 04:11:56 AM doesn't that make them want to sting you more?
Title: I'm baaaaack Post by: RipperRoo on August 26, 2005, 11:44:29 AM Heh, I would have legged it the other way screaming.
Title: I'm baaaaack Post by: smi256 on August 27, 2005, 04:18:29 AM shooing it away sounds safer then smacking it :unsure:
Title: I'm baaaaack Post by: Lord Lanair on August 27, 2005, 04:28:39 AM Unless you have good aim. :P
Actually, today in a band meeting, one of the guys saw a fly on the table, so he sloooooowly maneuvered a powerade bottle over it, then smashed the sucker. It was cool. :D |