It's a well known fact that Sept/Oct is wasp season. They're looking for a new
home to hold up over the Winter..
Best Regards,
Jim N9WW
James Chaggaris
President
PowerOne Corp.
2325 Dean St. Suite 200
St. Charles, IL 60175
Phone: (630)443-6500
Cell: (630)669-2241
Sent from my iPad Air2
> On Oct 13, 2019, at 10:00 PM, Steve, NR4M <steve@nr4m.com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> 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
>> _______________________________________________
>>
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
>> TowerTalk mailing list
>> TowerTalk@contesting.com
>> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
>
> _______________________________________________
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> TowerTalk mailing list
> TowerTalk@contesting.com
> http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
_______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
TowerTalk mailing list
TowerTalk@contesting.com
http://lists.contesting.com/mailman/listinfo/towertalk
|