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Post by bradmacmt on Jan 23, 2017 13:00:08 GMT -8
What flies but can not glide? What has killed more people and pets than bears, big cats or wolves? These creatures’ actions have directly affected evolution on the earth. Without them millions would go hungry. They will attack without warning and cannot be stopped with any gun. More than snakes, more than other people, I fear this creature most whenever I venture into the desert. Nice riddle Bilbo.
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Jan 23, 2017 16:56:01 GMT -8
Post by texasbb on Jan 23, 2017 16:56:01 GMT -8
Bees. You must be allergic to fear them. Not necessarily. I spent literally decades getting (mostly) over an irrational phobia of bees (basically anything that buzzes like that), which sprung from a childhood encounter with a bunch of ground-nesting yellow-jackets at Mt. Rainier. I'm not allergic, and in fact don't even react much (they don't hurt much), but for a very long time I had to fight hard not to scream and run at the sound of one. I have a similarly mild reaction to their stings and had a similar childhood encounter with those ground-nesting jackets. Fortunately, for me it seems to have had the opposite effect. Knowing that early swarm attack was ultimately no big deal kind of made me unafraid later on.
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Jan 23, 2017 17:01:23 GMT -8
Post by rebeccad on Jan 23, 2017 17:01:23 GMT -8
Knowing that early swarm attack was ultimately no big deal kind of made me unafraid later on. You're lucky! It drove be crazy to be so irrational, but, well, the root of the problem kind of lies in the word, doesn't it? I couldn't reason my way out of it. I didn't start to get better at all until I'd been stung a few more times and found it trivial. But even then it took years, and I still have to beat the reaction down some. Grr!
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Post by echo on Jan 24, 2017 6:12:33 GMT -8
When my youngest was in second grade, he climbed up on a redwood stump, in cowboy boots. His foot got wedged in a crevice with a bees nest in it. They got straight up, under his shirt. The neighbor girl, at ten, climbed up, freed him and his boot, which had stayed in the stump her first time up. He had fifteen stings I counted, got him in a bath and gave him Benadryl and he kept sobbing. Turns out his reading group at school was studying, "killer bees" and he just wanted to know how soon he would die.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Jan 24, 2017 6:50:02 GMT -8
I am a magnet for bee stings. It is a running joke in my family. I get stung about 5x per year. The only month I haven't been stung is January.
The last time I was stung was in October or November. I assume it was some kind of hornet. All I know is it was huge. I was riding my bike and it got caught between my face and my helmet strap. It stung my cheek, and when I swatted it, it felt like it was as long as my fingers. BAD pain for around 5 minutes, then some decent swelling for 10 minutes, then nothing. Everything was back to normal within 30 minutes. Weird.
A couple years ago I stepped on a ground wasp nest. I thought the stings were just my leg rubbing up against the thistles that were there (I was wearing shorts). When I looked down, my entire leg was black and yellow. I counted 30 stings after the ordeal. Thankfully those wasps had some restraint... it could have been much worse.
I probably shouldn't move to Arizona.
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Jan 24, 2017 14:11:16 GMT -8
Post by mk on Jan 24, 2017 14:11:16 GMT -8
I probably shouldn't move to Arizona. No kidding! This whole thread has me rethinking our thoughts of retiring to Arizona ...
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Jan 24, 2017 14:26:39 GMT -8
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Post by hikingtiger on Jan 24, 2017 14:26:39 GMT -8
This whole thread has me rethinking our thoughts of retiring to Arizona ... Just makes you more aware. I think I'm still going.
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Jan 24, 2017 17:59:33 GMT -8
Post by Deborah on Jan 24, 2017 17:59:33 GMT -8
I probably shouldn't move to Arizona. Sounds like a wise choice.
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