The one animal I would eradicate from the planet...

[Mat4644]

I hate giant ants!

 

[/pine]

..The bald face hornets we had seem like a minor nuisance compared to the above...

Bald faced hornets (yellow jackets) are not an invasive species...they are native to N. America...

BTW Just to reiterate.. domesticated cats are the absolute most harmful non-native, invasive predator species...

 

[Sawyer Rob]

BTW Just to reiterate.. domesticated cats are the absolute most harmful non-native, invasive predator species...

Almost never see one around here, and when I do, it dies from lead poison...

SR

 

[ruffdog]

We have Lanterflies everywhere by the hundreds- killed some of our roses and other plants.
I spray them with insect soap, but there are just too many.

We don't have them here yet but the alarms are being put out there. They say the spotted lanternfly will first seek the Tree of Heaven then move to hardwoods, grapes, hops, fruit trees and roses.

Spotted Lanternfly

 

[MoKelly]

Bald faced hornets (yellow jackets) are not an invasive species...they are native to N. America...

BTW Just to reiterate.. domesticated cats are the absolute most harmful non-native, invasive predator species...

Beside humans. You want to eliminate all humans?

My kitty is not happy with you.

He has magic powers.

Sleep well.

MoKelly

 

[CADplans]

Riding our dirt bikes this time of year, we end up covered in them. After a couple of hours the goggles are a mess with all the sticky web material. Hate those.

I got tired of webs in the face when riding the ATV,,
I stopped at a shop that used to sell CB radios, and asked if he had any antenna's,,

He said he only had a few, and they were the 4 foot whip type,,
HE GAVE ME ONE!!,,
I mounted it on the front of the ATV,, and it almost eliminated the problem.

If I break it, I will buy one with a spring base,, but, so far,, so good,,
I have been using it for 5 years,,

 

[Hay Dude]

Mosquitoes account for the death of over 1 million people each year, worldwide.

 

[AWSubie]

I just stepped on a dead wasp that I must have drug in on my shoe and got caught on my indoor floormat. I’m here to say that the onion juice does actually work. The pain is not all gone but it’s not increasing anymore and the swelling is subsiding.

Thanks to the poster who mentioned this solution I was just going to tough it out but this is much better with the onion juice

 

[Hay Dude]

Beside humans. You want to eliminate all humans?

My kitty is not happy with you.

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He has magic powers.

Sleep well.

MoKelly

Hi Winston!
You’re really cute!

 

[CADplans]

Mosquitoes account for the death of over 1 million people each year, worldwide.

a drop in the bucket compared to COVID,,,,,,,,,,,



I agree,, Mosquitoes are B A D !!,,

 

[MoKelly]

Hi Winston!
You’re really cute!

Thanks! You are kind.

He is my wife’s cat but he won me over the first week she brought him home!

Here is my favorite picture.

He is a huge Mizzou Tigers fan!!

By the way, he is an inside cat and the worst thing he has killed is his play toy!

MoKelly

 

[k0ua]

Beside humans. You want to eliminate all humans?

My kitty is not happy with you.

View attachment 711132

He has magic powers.

Sleep well.

MoKelly

I like your kitty. He looks well cared for.

 

[2LaneCruzer]

I just stepped on a dead wasp that I must have drug in on my shoe and got caught on my indoor floormat. I’m here to say that the onion juice does actually work. The pain is not all gone but it’s not increasing anymore and the swelling is subsiding.

Thanks to the poster who mentioned this solution I was just going to tough it out but this is much better with the onion juice

Great! Glad it worked for you. I thought it was all BS when my 90 year old Dad told me about it; I was stung in the palm of the hand by a bumble bee, and it was hurting like crazy. I had nothing to lose, so I tried it and couldn't believe how well it worked.

 

[Jchonline]

@/pine

 

[MoKelly]

@/pine

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Not good to get kitty’s mad.

MoKelly

 

[/pine]

 

[Snobdds]

Ravens. They love the trees around my back deck and everyday carpet bomb it with crap.

One day...they're going to meet mr. double barrel...

 

[MoKelly]

My kitty’s reaction.

 

[Jstpssng]

Ravens. They love the trees around my back deck and everyday carpet bomb it with crap.

One day...they're going to meet mr. double barrel...

That could be easier said than done.They're pretty clever little buggers.

 

[OzarkChris]

As I've gotton older, I'm not so much into killing things as I once had.

I'm at the point that if I'm driving, I'll help a turtle across the road or slow down for pretty much any animal if it's in the middle of the road (this morning, honking the horn for 3 Guinea hens who seem as smart as a box of rocks on the road).

I'll kill for food when I need it, but always give thanks for the sacrifice so I can eat. Hunted a lot when I was younger, now I'd rather get a great shot with the camera.

Don't get me wrong, last week had to get rid of a copperhead laying directly around the house that wouldn't move and I couldn't get to (first time in a while I used my Ruger lite with can, and it worked wonders for close up work), but for the most part, even in the back fields if I come across the same kind copperhead, I'll try to leave them be.

One thing I can't stand though is yellow jackets.

Wife got stung about 5 times in the garden yesterday. We will dispatch that ground hive tonight that she found by one of the raised beds.

Later yesterday, mowing a sidehill that I do ever so often every couple of weeks, I ended up getting stung by 7 different ones. Thing is, they are so vicious IMO anytime I've come across them. I got out of the area fast on the mower, and trying to drive a twin stick while trying to kill them with one arm off the stick makes for interesting driving going downhill pretty fast LOL It wasn't until about 75 yards and I got back to the house that they weren't around me anymore. I went up with the truck today (windows close), but couldn't exactly find where the ground nest was.

Both my wife and I were very sore last night.

Wifes Grandmothers brother was killed by yellow jackects back in the 30's or 40's. Wife was told that her grandmothers brother was stung so many times, they had to have a large casket due to the size of the body after all the stings.

Funny, out back mowing a field today, and I've mowed that field many times, never worried. Today, I was getting kind of freaked out by all the grasshoppers landing on me and every once in while biting me (sorry, forwhatever reasons, grasshoppers do bite more than naught IMO when mowing LOL).

I know God put animals on this earth for a reason, and although I can't stand snakes personally, they play a pretty big role in the Big book, but yellow jackets I have no clue why they are on this earth.

Thing about yellow jackets is I generally look up at the trees (as I've come across them mowing this way more than a couple of times), but when they are in the ground, it's like walking across a dormant minefield that you never think of until you hit them.

Perhaps I'd feel the sameway about hogs, but thankfully we don't have that problem LOL

Very thought provoking topic!

I routinely tell my wife that I've got this list of things to ask God when I see him. Usually, these items include different critters. Questions like: why did you create Chiggers (Red bugs)? Why did you create Ticks? Why did you create (add your favorite critter)?