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Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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What kind of bee is this? It's a bee that should have minded it own BEEZINESS and left me alone. I've never seen one like this, big stinger. Do they make bee hives, live in the ground?
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I accidently put my hand into a wasp nest. Hand swelled up, hurt for days. I know this isn't an Indiana wasp.
 
Looks like a Cicada Killer Wasp to me. They burrow a hole in bare dirt (or very thin patches of lawn, etc), capture a Cicada and bury it in the hole with a wasp larvae. Pretty much harmless, but scary as heck to see buzzing around.
AaronSEIA
 
glennster,
Thanks for the link. I've never seen one before. I thought a wasp had a paper like nest and they stung the crap out of my left hand when I opened a shed door. Swelled and hurt for days. geo.
 

I just got hit a little while ago by a dad gum red wasp. I took the dogs with me to go to the chicken pen and get the eggs and feed them. I was walking back to the house and the red head was pulling up. I had to grab the dogs so she could park. I started toward the front porch and pow! :shock: Of course that ensued with some flavorless language and the dance that goes with it. I wasn't anywhere near the nest but they came after me anyway. They were coming out of a little ceramic chihuahua with a small hole in the back, that the red head has sitting next to the walkway. Bleep bleep bleep. Wasp spray got 'em. I hate it when I get hit and I didn't do anything. Other times I will be working with one right by my head and they just look at me and sit there. Little bleepers. I have two welts where he got me twice. :evil:
 
Unless it stings you. That ice-pick that comes out of his tail-end is not for show, it's to immobilize a large cicada. Let's just say they're not normally belligerent toward people.
 
Sitting on the back porch I watched one of those take down a cicada in flight, and bring it to the ground. The wasp tried to fly away with it, but it kind a stalled a inch to two off the ground, finally it drug and flew it into a hole that was across the yard about 30-40 feet. I know they don't really bother humans but I would hate to make one mad.
 
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