My grandpa used to do that all the time to yellow jacket nests. He'd pour in
gas, then toss a match in the hole!
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On 8/16/10 6:53 PM, "Jim Nichols" <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Marc,
>
> The most dangerous insect we encounter, aside from the infrequent black
> widow, is the yellow jacket, which builds its nest in the ground. If you
> walk over a nest with a walking mower you are in for trouble. I spotted one
> a few weeks ago and dealt with it, first with a full can of hornet spray,
> and then with several ounces of gasoline. No, it was too close to the house
> to light it, though I have done that out in the open.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marc Lawrence" <montsnmags@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Olympus Camera Discussion" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 5:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [OM] IMG: Crab Spider
>
>
>>> Chris Crawford recently posted: "You shouldn't have killed it, Crab
>>> Spiders are cool. They change colors to match the flowers they sit on,
>>> so they can ambush bugs that frequent flowers, like bees."
>>
>> I'm not sure, but I think this might only extend to the Goldenrod Crab
>> Spider, and then only between the colours yellow and white (and it is
>> not an "instant" thing, as with some other colour-changing animals).
>> I'd happily stand corrected on this.
>>
>> Crab Spiders are some of the nicest-looking spiders (as Jim's and
>> Moose's photos attest), but I also live with someone who must be
>> restrained from wielding the shoe, Jim, in his case inside and out.
>> Should that spider be as large as a Huntsman (think something that
>> looks as big as an open handspan, and that likes to sit high on the
>> walls, inevitably somewhere near the head end of the bed), that
>> feeling is understandable even by me. The
>> magazine-and-Tupperware-container trick works there. I do point out
>> that the remarkable absence of mossies and flies in our house (where
>> we leave our doors open all the time, and where the environment would
>> otherwise indicate massive numbers), is likely down to all the
>> different spiders of several species we see in and, more often, around
>> the house (those, and the hornets and solitary wasps, and the dragon
>> flies, and the geckos, and so on).
>>
>> I must admit I get more of a fright when inadvertently walking through
>> the tough webs of some of the big garden spiders, or accidentally
>> knocking a paper ant (not sure of actual species) in the palms and
>> having a mass of their mid-sized black bodies fall on and run all over
>> me (though thankfully, they don't seem aggressive, and have never
>> harmed me even when provoked with my wild batting and barely
>> restrained squeals).
>>
>> Bees frighten the crap out of me though. I save them from the pool,
>> but it's a close thing for me. :)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Marc
>> Noosa Heads
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