New Hampshire Warnings..

[macmac]

The type of poor cold and wet weather made for a late and really messed up growing season, for gardens and wild plants.

In turn this has created a situation which is a little odd, namely wasps and yellow jackets are out and around in force.

Their numbers are higher than I can ever recall, and they are most aggressive this year.

I wasn't riding the other day, but was stung and chased by yellow jackets.

So far as I know I never had a problem in the past with these jackets after getting stung much, but this time my hand resembles a potatoe more than a hand.

This may seem silly, but i am glad I wasn't riding at the time...

I have been stung in the past riding and all I can say is it's no fun..

[ringadingh]

We have a lot of wasps around here as well the last couple weeks, a couple years ago I had one sting me in the neck while riding to work, it sure smarts when you get stung at 60mph.
Cigarette butts seem to be picking on me today, this morning on the way to work the guy in front flicked out his butt and it hit my lower fairing, a few seconds later the guy in a truck a lane over flicks his out and nailed me in the knee. Im glad there not made of stone. ;)

[cactusjack]

We have a problem here with Africanized bees. There were several attacks on the news a week or so ago. One was an 80+ year old woman that got stung over 1000 times. She lived, but she fell and broke her hip in the attack and couldn't get away from them.

[waterman]

Wasps and bees have been almost non-existent this year. Normally I have major amounts of wasps around the house.

[rayski271]

i got nailed while riding at the rally in custer

[macmac]

Not that many here are in the East, from this weekend till mid Oct, riders from the world around, and others will come here to see the season change.

I am not sure what can be done when stung riding, but maybe knowing what is happeneing will help a rider take the sudden pain...

The numbers are a concern, and maybe the there is something about the stings I recieved that are telling, since I never bothered to swell before. maybe it is just me aging. I don't know.

Only one of two stings swelled up, the other is at my neck.

Once after a ride moments after i swung my jacket over my shoiulder and got stung in the cheek of my butt for it

Getting stung just sort of reminded me what was up in that the numbers are seemingly high, and probably have to do with past weather.

My garden is apx 60'x100' so not exactly small of 2 people to work, and so I am out a lot to see nature.. Just trying to find some method to keep riders safer..

[Cajunrider]

I had one of the red wasps get into my tee shirt on the way home from Hot Springs last month. I was only 120 miles from home and felt something stinging me right on the gut. I unsnapped my vest and grabbed my shirt to pull it away from my chest. I felt the insect in the gather of my shirt and squeezed it thinking I had killed it. I let it go and it nailed me 3 more times. My tee was tucked in my pants so I pulled it out of my belt in the front and out it fell onto my lap. All of this was at 60 mph. My wife couldn't figure out what all the comotion was about. When we stopped at Evangeline Downs, a horse race track and casino in Opelousas, LA, I showed her the 4 sting welps on my belly. She was amazed that we didn't crash. That will definitely break your concentration. I still can't figure out how he got in my shirt without stinging me somewhere else along his route.

[chainsaw]

Mitch, it must me your sweetness that attracts them.

[macmac]

Ah Ha it's Mitch! I been a' wunderin what yer name was...

I have never seen a red wasp, and of the sounds of never will willingly want too.. Yikes! The little demons here seemingly can only sting once! The bad part is they don't come alone..

Well there is a new warning in NH.... Worse than wasps, these are tourists!

I rode up nawth yesterday, before i went 15 miles I could tell traffic volume was up, and it is really up. In part the long weekend, but from now to the last leaf falls, it will be rider hell.

These are not average ordinary tourists, this type is the Leaf Peeper!

This type is the most dangerouse type, since they tend to stop dead center in the road, and snap open the doors with out so much a signal of any kind.

They just stop right where the tree they are viewing from behind glass is! Bam right now, no pulling over and no signal.

The idea I believe is to get out of the cage and smell the wind, like we do, but we do it from the start, and we don't just stop in the dead center of the road.

In the past I have over heard them stating how earthy the air is, as if i might not know this, as I ride a bike near by...

With out a glance these leaf peepers will step into on coming traffic as if sucide is a fun thing.

All this ties up traffic for a month to maybe 6 weeks.

In these times it is going to be hard to tell if the driver is a Leaf Peeper or sexting. Probably those sexting won't tend to stop dead center in the road, and so might be safer to share the road with.

[dogdoc]

mac: maybe its the maple scent you use as your colonge that attracts the wasps??? We to have the killer bees in TX which are more aggressive and have actually killed people mowing theirs lawns.

[macmac]

Day before yesterday now, my neighbor was stung from another ground nest about 300 feet from mine.. 3 stings to the left hand, on to the right shoulder and the last on his right neck.

Not good... he was running a chain saw, but I doubt the saw was anything to do with it.

My nest is too far from my garden to be the ones into my berries.. I can't find that nest, but will. Odd stuff by the season if you ask me. These yellow jackets are very high in numbers this time around.

[radco]

we have alot of bees and wasps as well this year.. never thought much of it till you posted.. stung anyway sucks riding worse.. inhaling a bee while riding sucks monkey butt!!!!! getting stung on the tongue really really sucks. happend to me last week.. nice big lump on the tongue, like a pierced tonge would have :) ,, I could taste that friggin bee for 2 days lol............

[macmac]

LOL I neva' did try bee to eat before! You musta been desperate for a meal or you were busy thinking of some new age angle all tattooed up with a chain across her errr, umm nope not a chance i will go there.

Rich , whats bee taste like ??????

[radco]

Originally Posted by macmac

LOL I neva' did try bee to eat before! You musta been desperate for a meal or you were busy thinking of some new age angle all tattooed up with a chain across her errr, umm nope not a chance i will go there.

Rich , whats bee taste like ??????

Mac Bees taste like chicken!!! "NOT" more like Cow Crap lol

[macmac]

I think if that happened to me I would have crashed. No one would ever figured out why either...


I am trying to clean the straw berry patch out of every berry good bad other wise and get chased away. The reasoning is, that there is still flowers which could be berrys if I can get these damnned yellow jackets away.

I figure if I can compost every berry there is now they just might go somewhere else, and maybe I can get a few more berrys in the freezer before the season is gone.

makes me glad they ain't around come sugarin' time too...