I’ve seen the same thing over the years. Next line you’d be 80 feet up a tower
and have eight or 10 wasps swarming around you. As you said they did not appear
to be aggressive but it was a little unnerving.
Someone told me those are the drones, the males, and they were not aggressive
at all as long as you didn’t put your hand on them.
Since I wear gloves when I’m climbing, that’s not an issue. It’s probably been
20 or 30 years since that person told me that. I have grown somewhat used to
seeing them and I haven’t been stung once.
73 de Steve. NR4M
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> On Oct 13, 2019, at 10:04 PM, Kim Elmore <cw_de_n5op@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> A couple of years ago, around this time, I chose a beautiful fall day to do
> some tower work. But as I got up there, the area was swarming with red wasps.
> They didn’t seem aggressive, but I beat a hasty exit. 2-3 h later, they’d
> vanished. I saw the same thing today: it seemed they were trying to go into
> booms and masts. They couldn’t get into booms because the ends are screened,
> but there were a LOT of them. 3-3 h later, they’d vanished. Anyone else see
> this sort of thing? Any idea what’s going on?
>
> Kim N5OP
>
> "People that make music together cannot be enemies, at least as long as the
> music lasts." -- Paul Hindemith
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