[at-l] Not OT at all - Dangerous turtles?

[DTimm65344@aol.com (DTimm65344@aol.com)]

In a message dated 07/03/02 10:51:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
saunterer@jimbullard.org writes:


> The only thing I've been "attacked" by when hiking was ground bees.  There 
> was a nest in the trail (the nest is underground with a small entrance that 
> 
> is a hole in the dirt about the diameter of your thumb) and when I walked 
> over it, it riled them.  They chased me for quite a ways and were true 
> kamakazi types.  They had no fear of being swatted.  Their one and only 
> objective was to sting me which 4-5 succeeded in doing.
> 

Had the same problem in my backyard when I relandscaped it.  The previous 
owners had put in railroad tie steps which I replaced with stone steps.  
Problem was that the ground bees had nested in the old steps.  Became a long 
process of stirring them up, running away for a while, coming back and moving 
the step a bit further which stirred them up again, etc.  Even with the 
running away, got stung about a dozen times across a weekend.

Black&blue



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