Re: ??????
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  • Subject: Re: ??????
  • From: C* C* <c*@comcast.net>
  • Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:57:26 -0500
Yellow jackets are truly evil. I have been attacked simply walking by a nest (that I didn't know was there). They are the only insect that I will attempt to exterminate if they nest anywhere people walk. I locate the entrance, wait until dark, then head out with flashlight and wasp spray. 
Cathy, west central IL, z5b

On Mar 8, 2010, at 3:57 PM, BONNIE_HOLMES wrote:


I think the only state that allows "de-pewing" is Ohio. We are highly
allergic to yellow jackets and they seem to like this entire area where 
I live. In the Parks, the rangers have more medical events with yellow
jackets than any other things. Whatever happened to the experiment a few years ago where pellets with drugs to combat rabies were dropped in the 
wild to prevent rabies. Before there were so many dogs in our
neighborhood, I used to get a faint whiff of them early in the a.m. and 
they dug up the yellow jacket nests. I didn't mind that at all.


ETN Zone 7

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jesse Bell" <justjess01@gmail.com>
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Sent: Monday, March 8, 2010 11:41:55 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [CHAT] ??????

You would only want a skunk around if it was "de-pewed" Bonnie. (which
is against the law because it is their only form of defense in the
wild) The guys renting our bunkhouse have trapped 12 of them this
spring. They carry rabies, and the weird thing is, rabies will not
kill a skunk, but they can be carriers of it. And they stink to high
heaven. At three o'clock in the morning they ran our guys out of that
house and they threw up from the smell. A couple of them got UNDER
the bunkhouse and it must have been two males fighting...but you could
smell that for almost a WEEK. They had to air out the house.


On 3/7/10, BONNIE_HOLMES <bonnie_holmes@comcast.net> wrote:
Saw a very interesting program on skunks the other night. Fascinating. Didn't know that a mountain lion or rattler wouldn't bother a skunk. In 
fact, rattlers will actually hide from them as skunks will kill them.
They will also eat bees and yellow jackets. Don't think I would mind
having one around but we have dogs.

B

ETN Zone 7

----- Original Message -----
From: "Donna" <gossiper@sbcglobal.net>
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Sent: Sunday, March 7, 2010 7:45:46 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: Re: [CHAT] ??????

I haven't been on my computer much. Busy then the flu.
Weather is starting to warm up here finally. But there isn't any gardening going on.... way to mushy to do anything and I still have snow in some areas. 

Donna

--- On Sun, 3/7/10, Aplfgcnys@aol.com <Aplfgcnys@aol.com> wrote:


From: Aplfgcnys@aol.com <Aplfgcnys@aol.com>
Subject: [CHAT] ??????
To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date: Sunday, March 7, 2010, 5:20 PM


What's going on? Or not going on?
I felt totally isolated when our power was out for four days,
and one of the things I missed most was my online contacts
with this group. Now after nearly a week, I have had only
one email from the group. Is everyone out gardening? Or
have I somehow been dropped from the list? It's a bit
spooky not to hear anything at all from the group.

Since we are still ice-bound there is no gardening activity.
I have been intending to crow that my Bowiea is blooming.
I know that it would be hard to find less impressive blooms,
but the tiny, 1/4 inch blossoms are really lovely little
six-petaled lily-like blooms. Anything that blooms at this
time of the year is welcome

Auralie

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