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Backwoods Savage

Backwoods Savage

Minister of Fire
Feb 14, 2007
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Got a surprise today out in the woods. Perhaps someone can ID this?

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While I'm at posting pictures, here is another one I took a while ago. This is probably the biggest one I've seen. That tree won't get cut right away.

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No idea what the first pic is, but that's a nice lokking hornet's nest. I used to shoot the branch holding them up, put them in a trash bag, then put in the freezer to sell....all this below freezing outside temps of course. Not sure why someone would want to buy one, but I was happy to sell them. 20 bucks was a big score for a kid.
 
Well, I'd certainly sell for $20 too.
 
[quote author="Backwoods Savage" date="1316314454"]Got a surprise today out in the woods. Perhaps someone can ID this?
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While I'm at posting pictures, here is another one I took a while ago. This is probably the biggest one I've seen. That tree won't get cut right away.




Is that Overcup Oak? Nice nests.


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Zap, that was a pin oak.
 
Used to see those little fuzzy balls on an oak we had when I was a kid. There is an egg inside for some kind of parasitic bug. Don't know if I have ever seen the adult but some of those can get about the size of a small marble and turn kind of yellow in color.
 
Cave, yes it does look like an egg of some sort inside. They are quite small; more like BB size. They also break off the leaf really easy.
 
Backwoods Savage said:
Well, I'd certainly sell for $20 too.
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I'll give you $1 for it if you pay shipping. That oak leaf is totally unique, almost cute; pink, fuzzy, Must be a fungus of some kind.
 
jpl1nh said:
Backwoods Savage said:
Well, I'd certainly sell for $20 too.
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I'll give you $1 for it if you pay shipping.
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Dennis, I'll give you $10 plus shipping. Can you ship tomorrow? :lol:
 
Wow, what a nest! I'd hate to have somehow missed it and accidentally made them mad. That would be a bad day for someone with an allergy to bee stings!
 
Pagey said:
Wow, what a nest! I'd hate to have somehow missed it and accidentally made them mad. That would be a bad day for someone with an allergy to bee stings!
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u wouldnt need to be allergic that many comin at you waould kill you..
 
ecocavalier02 said:
Pagey said:
Wow, what a nest! I'd hate to have somehow missed it and accidentally made them mad. That would be a bad day for someone with an allergy to bee stings!
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u wouldnt need to be allergic that many comin at you waould kill you..
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Touche!
 
ecocavalier02 said:
Pagey said:
Wow, what a nest! I'd hate to have somehow missed it and accidentally made them mad. That would be a bad day for someone with an allergy to bee stings!
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u wouldnt need to be allergic that many comin at you waould kill you..
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Pretty intimidating too. I unintentionally dug up a good nest sized last weekend. They looked like a tornado for about 1/2 an hour until they dispersed. Glad I was in the cab of the machine and no one was around.
 
Woody Stover said:
jpl1nh said:
Backwoods Savage said:
Well, I'd certainly sell for $20 too.
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I'll give you $1 for it if you pay shipping.
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Dennis, I'll give you $10 plus shipping. Can you ship tomorrow? :lol:
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Not tomorrow but would be happy to do it in January. ;-)
 
Hmmm . . . wonder if the buggers know something we don't . . . this is the second time in so many days that I've seen pics of a very large wasp/hornet nest.
 
firefighterjake said:
Hmmm . . . wonder if the buggers know something we don't . . . this is the second time in so many days that I've seen pics of a very large wasp/hornet nest.
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Old folklore is the higher the hornet's nest, the deeper the snow. Not sure about size.
 
lukem said:
firefighterjake said:
Hmmm . . . wonder if the buggers know something we don't . . . this is the second time in so many days that I've seen pics of a very large wasp/hornet nest.
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Old folklore is the higher the hornet's nest, the deeper the snow. Not sure about size.
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The bigger the nest . . . the better the party inside? ;) :)
 
That surely sounds right Jake.
 
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