@&##$% wasps

[N0WVA]

Ive run across stinging nettle in many places here in the Ozarks, always along a creek or river. Maybe Im giving it an incorrect name, but there was a bulletin board at a camp site I read a long time ago that called it that, so thats what Ive been calling it all along. Closest to describing is imagine you worked up a good sweat and then you took some of that white powdery dry acid that forms over your battery connectors on a car or truck. Now rub that in and maybe that would be half as bad. But the nettle also itches and when you start scratching, the burn intensifies. If you happen to contact this stuff the only relief is jumping in the water and washing it off.

Interesting note on the handling of the plant.

 While we are on the subject of plants, there is one that I could never find a name for , but it has a bunch of little leaves in a row in each stem like a fern. And you can touch the leaves and they will "close up" .

[W3SLK]

Doug said:

While we are on the subject of plants, there is one that I could never find a name for , but it has a bunch of little leaves in a row in each stem like a fern. And you can touch the leaves and they will "close up" .

Isn't that a vermosa bush?

[k4kyv]

While we are on the subject of plants, there is one that I could never find a name for , but it has a bunch of little leaves in a row in each stem like a fern. And you can touch the leaves and they will "close up" .

The Venus Fly Trap does that too.

[KX5JT]

 While we are on the subject of plants, there is one that I could never find a name for , but it has a bunch of little leaves in a row in each stem like a fern. And you can touch the leaves and they will "close up" .

The "sensitive plant" does that as do some other related mimosa and acacias.

Mimosa pudica... cool video shows the action

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq3UuHlPLQU

73, John

[KB2WIG]

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[N0WVA]

 While we are on the subject of plants, there is one that I could never find a name for , but it has a bunch of little leaves in a row in each stem like a fern. And you can touch the leaves and they will "close up" .

The "sensitive plant" does that as do some other related mimosa and acacias.

Mimosa pudica... cool video shows the action

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq3UuHlPLQU

73, John

Yeah, that looks like it. The wild ones aorund here have thinner leaves, but they do the same thing.

[Steve - WB3HUZ]

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[ke7trp]

We use pyrethrin

http://www.bugspray.com/article/wasp.html

The key is to spray the nest if you can find it when its small.  I had half a dozen nests this year. Mostly small.  couple sprays, They cant fly anymore. That stuff is an oil base and it weighs them down.


C

[k4kyv]

We use pyrethrin

http://www.bugspray.com/article/wasp.html

The key is to spray the nest if you can find it when its small.  I had half a dozen nests this year. Mostly small.  couple sprays, They cant fly anymore. That stuff is an oil base and it weighs them down.

That stuff wouldn't be good to use while prepping for a paint job. You don't want to leave any kind of oily residue on wood or any other surface that is about to be painted.  Same goes for fighting them with WD-40.

[The Slab Bacon]

That stuff wouldn't be good to use while prepping for a paint job. You don't want to leave any kind of oily residue on wood or any other surface that is about to be painted.  Same goes for fighting them with WD-40.

If you use the red can Brakelean, it leaves absolutely no residue!!

The solvent in it that is is so deadly to them is a "defatting agent"
Hmmmm............... Maybe I should spray some on my mid section