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[TowerTalk] RE: Yellow Jackets on Tower

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Subject: [TowerTalk] RE: Yellow Jackets on Tower
From: FireBrick" <w9ol@billnjudy.com (FireBrick)
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 19:05:14 -0500
Boys those IA farmers are tough. That stuff tasted terrible.
I'd rather have the sting than that kind of cure.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Lindblom" <w0etc@ix.netcom.com>
To: "TowerTalk" <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 6:06 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] RE: Yellow Jackets on Tower


>
> Being an IA boy, I know most of the farmers that live around me carry a
jug
> of chlorine bleach on the tractor/combine/harvester/etc and swear by it
for
> bee and wasp stings.
>
> 73 W0ETC
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <n4kg@juno.com>
> To: <TOWERTALK@contesting.com>
> Sent: Sunday, October 21, 2001 22:39
> Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] RE: Yellow Jackets on Tower
>
>
> >
> > Spirts of AMMONIA or Aromatic Ammonia works for me,
> > better than meat tenderizer.  You may have to ask
> > a druggist for it.  Apply with a Q tip.
> >
> > Also, a single long sleeve shirt and single pair of long pants
> > is NOT enough to keep them from stinging through your clothes.
> > This is the voice of experience talking.  I wear a ski parka,
> > with hood, goggles, and face mask along with 2 pairs of long
> > pants tucked into high top rubber boots when nuking them at night.
> > Replacement screening over a hard hat tucked inside your jacket
> > also works.
> >
> > I live in the country and always have yellow jackets flying around
> > but they always make their nests in the ground.  They do NOT like
> > lawnmowers.  Voice of experience again.  20 stings on my legs.
> > I NEVER mow in shorts any more, even it it's 90 degrees.
> > Interestingly, I've never had them make a nest on a tower, or even
> > bother me on a tower.  I'm speaking of the tiny yellow and black
> > yellow jackets which are about the size of honey bees.
> >
> > Anybody know the name for the LARGE yellow and black
> > insects about the size of the tip of one's little finger and
> > a sting that you will *never* forget?
> >
> > WASPS are always hanging around the tops of towers but "usually"
> > will not bother you if you don't bother them.  QSL on pucker factor.
> >
> > Tom  N4KG
> >
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