ScottAR
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They are a very big wasp. 2 inches long or so. Very impressive looking. One of my school friends caught one for a school project years ago. I still remember it. I have no info, just felt like posting.
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Yellow Jackets
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cstocks
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From your description, it sounds like you have crawfish (crayfish) on your property. Crawfish live in the ground and make mud chimneys where they burrow their holes.
webbmeister
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hmmm ... yellow jackets ------or ------- crawfish.
I'll hope they're crawfish!
Thanks Chris.
Jim
I'll hope they're crawfish!
Thanks Chris.
Jim
cstocks
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Yellow jackets = nuisance.
Crawfish = lunch! (At least in my neck of the woods!)/w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif
Crawfish = lunch! (At least in my neck of the woods!)/w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif
Scott_in_WVA
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Yellow jackets:lunch for the skunks...the skunks will root the nests out on occasion,I have seen the aftermath,I have also smelled the aftermath./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
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OK......now let's talk Yellow Jackets. This afternoon I was triming the high weeds against the foundation of my barn when I stumbled upon a nest of Yellow Jackets. These critters went crazy and so did I. I poured bug killer and gasoline on the nest, then dug out the nest. The Yellow Jackets weren't happy. They swarmed, I ran, and I'll fight this battle another day.
Bob
Bob
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Webmeister
Go to this site and look at the pictures of the cicada killer's life cycle and see if that isn't what you have <A target="_blank" HREF=http://homepages.culver.edu/faculty/jcoelho/thriller.htm>http://homepages.culver.edu/faculty/jcoelho/thriller.htm</A>. From your description I believe that you do have a cicada killer wasp. Some people have described them as aggresive but I have not found them to be as aggresive as yellow jackets. I have never been stung by one but when I ran into one riding my motorcycle, I thought I had been shot/w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif.
Randy
Go to this site and look at the pictures of the cicada killer's life cycle and see if that isn't what you have <A target="_blank" HREF=http://homepages.culver.edu/faculty/jcoelho/thriller.htm>http://homepages.culver.edu/faculty/jcoelho/thriller.htm</A>. From your description I believe that you do have a cicada killer wasp. Some people have described them as aggresive but I have not found them to be as aggresive as yellow jackets. I have never been stung by one but when I ran into one riding my motorcycle, I thought I had been shot/w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif.
Randy
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Sounds like Crayfish (Crawfish) to me. I get a few here and there on my front lawn.
dmccarty
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Bob,
You ran from the yellow jackets and got away? The last
run in I had with the little buggers I did the ran away as fast
as I could but the $%^&*( FOLLOWED me! I had to run some
more. I ran to the tractor and from there I was ready to make
my stand! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
Thank goodness they did not follow me after the second run!
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Later,
Dan
You ran from the yellow jackets and got away? The last
run in I had with the little buggers I did the ran away as fast
as I could but the $%^&*( FOLLOWED me! I had to run some
more. I ran to the tractor and from there I was ready to make
my stand! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
Thank goodness they did not follow me after the second run!
/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif
Later,
Dan
looch
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Yeah, those nasty devils have a cruising speed of about 30 miles an hour.