Today I accidentally put my hand in a wasp's nest I didn't know was being built under our picnic table. Me and the boys had been sitting at this very table just a few hours earlier and I'm surprised we didn't notice any wasps around. Later I needed to mow and when I went to move the table I reached my hand under and felt my fingers go into something soft (more a strange feel than gross, but definately felt "organic" - like putting your hand into old ashes). I jerked my hand out and saw something move past and felt something in my hair and swatted it away...but I was still thinking I had dislodged something flaky and it had blown up in my hair, or possibly that it was a spider. Then I saw the wasps, and backed up quick. Backing away I could see the wasps nest I had just put my hand in with 5 or 6 wasps on it, and several more flying around. Amazing that I didn't get stung!
(The photo above was NOT taken by me...oh, no, I was not that brave. That's a picture I borrowed from an artist/photographer on Zazzle. You can visit their shop
here. The wasps in my nest were orange but about the same shape. The nest looked similar, only slightly bigger and a darker gray. )
oh yikes, glad you didn't get stung!
ReplyDeleteOH MY!!!! So glad you didn't get stung! How scary.
ReplyDeleteOh my! How scary! So glad (and frankly surprised) that you weren't stung. Thanks for sharing on Throwback Thursday Blog-Style. Your post was featured this week.
ReplyDeleteI was really surprised I didn't get stung too...and grateful!
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