Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2017/09/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]What a line of work! Nice image, but it would have been interesting to see some closer views. Cheers, Nathan Nathan Wajsman Alicante, Spain http://www.frozenlight.eu <http://www.frozenlight.eu/> http:// <http://www.greatpix.eu/>www.greatpix.eu PICTURE OF THE WEEK: http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws <http://www.fotocycle.dk/paws>Blog: http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/ <http://nathansmusings.wordpress.com/> Cycling: http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator <http://www.crazyguyonabike.com/belgiangator> YNWA > On 24 Sep 2017, at 19:22, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> wrote: > > I spent a couple of hours this morning observing Pete Waldenmaier, aka > "Bee Busters", extract a nest of Eastern Yellow Jackets from my back yard. > The insects are quick frozen and shipped to a lab in Pennsylvania to be > used to make vaccine used to desensitize people who are very sensitive to > the stings of these insects. Pete says the nests are very large this > year. This one showed signs of digging around it, so a nightly-visiting > skunk has probably been at work. I have seen evidence of some kind of > nightly visits. > > I learned a lot about stinging insects during the time the vacuum cleaners > were gathering the Yellow Jackets. > > http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/20170924-DSCF5510.JPG.html > > Comments and critiques welcomed and appreciated. > > -- > Jim Nichols > Tullahoma, TN USA > > -- > _________________________________________________________________ > Options: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/listinfo/olympus > Archives: http://lists.thomasclausen.net/mailman/private/olympus/ > Themed Olympus Photo Exhibition: http://www.tope.nl/ >