The most aggressive stinging insects are vespid wasps (including bald-faced hornets and other yellowjackets) but not hornets in general (e.g., the European hornet is gentle). All of these insects aggressively defend their nests.
Posts Tagged ‘environment’
First Time Bee Sting Swelling
Posted: October 27, 2009 in Standing Strong, Surprise, Surprise!Tags: bee sting swelling, bee stings, environment, family, girls, hornets, name, Ontario, wasps, yellowjacket
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Bugs on Trees
Posted: October 25, 2009 in My Family, Surprise, Surprise!Tags: environment, Ontario, poplar tree, trees
This is what I discovered in my family’s field, after I kicked this black ridged plastic protector thing off the base of a really nice poplar tree. FILLED with tons of those white bug sack things. Or maybe from spiders, I don’t know, but this thing was literally covered, plastered with them. Now that can’t [...]
Toads In A Pail. Toads for Sale?
Posted: August 6, 2009 in Hamsters and Other PetsTags: daughters, environment, girls, pail, toads, yard
Two Toads in a Pail Two girls in the yard, playing hard. Find something green, trying not to be seen! Some rocks, some leaves, a dead bumble bee, a home for the pair, a pail for their care. Let them go, my dears! It isn’t fair. they climb the walls, and shake in fear. Two [...]
