Glad Jimmy is OK.
When I was a kid and squirrel hunting with my Mom and Grandfather we got into a huge nest of Yellow Jackets and they stung the Hell out of us and chased us for a good ways thru the woods. I was fast then and still got stung afew times.
Been stung by Bee's, Wasps and Hornets beaucoup times....
At our Lake House in deep East Texas, the Boat House/Pier the dam Red Wasps would build nests and them things were mean and aggressive and would sting us quite regularly.
More than once I would get up before Daylite and get a Cane Pole with a Rag on the end and put some Gasoline on the Rag and would burn the nest(s) while all the basturds were asleep.
The trick was killing the Wasps and destroying the Nest(s) without burning down the Boat House.... ha !
I'll admit it was quite satisfying to incinerate them rascals after getting stung by them - they really hurt - ha
Not Bee's but.....
We also had to always watch out for Cotton Mouths as they was thick on the Lake. I usually carried a shotgun in the boat while fishing and there is no telling how many I killed over the years. In the Spring they would be very aggressive and have had them to try to get in the Boat while we was out Frog Gigging at night.
Also had to watch careful squirrel hunting in the Bottoms before Winter sat in as the Cotton Mouths was always around, and Copperheads and Cane Rattlers. I was never bit but did get struck on my boots and later I wore Snake Leggings.
Now I digress but a true African Snake story(s). When we lived in Equatorial Guinea at the Mobil Compound we had Green and Black Mamba's a Cobra's - so you always had to watch careful.
Also had big Pythons. One day a big Python was in one of the Expats yard and the locals killed it as they hated snakes due to folks in the villages being bit and sometimes killed by snakes.... Anyway, the locals "killed" it by beating on it with sticks and poles. And they ate them also.
Several of the expats layed down by this thing and had there pictures took beside it as it was longer than the folks by a foot or two and was thick.
Well after everyone had their pictures made the dam snake crawled off ! ha - I will see if i can find a picture and post it if I can find it.
My Crews and I had to clear about 10 acres of Jungle for a new Office Building complex for XOM and we killed several Black Mamba's - those things give and gave me the heebie jeebies for sure....
I could'nt find the Python or Green Mamba pics but here is a couple of Black Mambas we killed. One of them was in one of the Mango Tree's in our neighbors yard. You had to always watch for the dam things.
There was also several Peacocks that ran around in the Compound. They are sure pretty.
We also had Mt. Pico right behind us - a active Volcano - it was pretty and never erupted - a good thing. But out in the Port sometimes the gases from the Volcano would bubble and sometimes push up the Sea floor and make little muddy small islands. It was interesting.
There was also lots of Monkeys in the jungle up on Mount Pico. Each year College Students from the USA would come to spend a week or two in the jungle studying the Monkeys. ms gamboolgal and the ladies at the Compound would feed them and stuff.
Wild Orchids was all over the place - beautiful flowers were abundant and all kinds of Hummingbirds.
