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Wild flowering drosera + unexpected danger!

I took a trip out to the bog today. Wanted to see how the dews were doing and collect some fresh LFS. Snapped a few pics along the way as usual. Enjoy!

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I love the ferns out here..

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Was pretty easy to find the dews with all the little white flowers everywhere.

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So.. throughout the bog I kept seeing these large areas where everything was flattened and dead. At first I just thought it was a deer bed, which is pretty common in the area. There were about a dozen of them all around me. Some were quite large, others were only the size of a diningroom table. It wasn't until I trudged out of knee high brush straight into a 10ft. clearing that I realized what these "beds" actually were. Underground colonies of giant yellow jackets!! :ohno: It was then I realized the true danger I was in. These colonies were HUGE.. and all around me. It was 95*F with 95% humidity.. but it wasn't until now that I began to pour sweat. Luckily I escaped safe and sound.. Moving extremely slowly, and carefully, I high tailed it out of there. I'll check back once more in the fall.. but other than that I'll leave them be.

A medium sized hive I accidentally stumbled upon..

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And a smaller hive only 20 ft. away

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After the encounter I decided to take a walk through the woods rather than cutting through the bog as usual. Here's what I found.. along with a QUAD-ZILLION mosquitoes.

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.. Continued.
 
OMG That's so scary! Glad you're ok.
 
Yikes!

Looks like a bunch of intermedia?
 
Very nice account, and -- having been stung by multiple wasps at the same time -- congratulations for getting out of the muck unscathed . . .
 
That one huge hive, and a lot of poison ivy!
 
Thanks David. Normally I would say there was nothing to it.. but this challenge was nothing short of a miracle to overcome.
 
The intermedia look very healthy! The yellow jacket nests look terrifying. They're very angry this time of year. Nice moss!
 
  • #10
U B lucky! Yelloow jackets, bald faced hornets....whatever they are., glad to see ya made it out with no stings!
The only thing I have found to hurt worse than those (unfortunately) was a scorpion in Texas.:censor:
 
  • #11
that hive looks beautiful! Glad you got out of there with out getting stung, very lucky for hive that size. Helthy looking dews too :D
 
  • #12
Anna.. that's like saying the inside of a Great White's mouth is beautiful. It's totally beautiful on my 52" flat screen. But not so much at the tip of my toes. :lol:
 
  • #13
U B lucky! Yelloow jackets, bald faced hornets....whatever they are., glad to see ya made it out with no stings!
The only thing I have found to hurt worse than those (unfortunately) was a scorpion in Texas.:censor:


And I think the only that hurts worse than a scorpion is the centipedes found in the same area.
 
  • #14
Ohmygosh, I'm so happy you got out safe!!! O_O
But lovely scenery too, very nice :love:
 
  • #15
Wow.... Thank god you are ok
 
  • #16
lol thats very true mass i would never go near a nest that huge but in a pic its all nice and purdy lol
 
  • #17
Looks like lot of poison ivy Mass….are you allergic? Every time I went out to the bog I usually came back with some. Ouch!
 
  • #18
Looks like lot of poison ivy Mass….are you allergic? Every time I went out to the bog I usually came back with some. Ouch!

Yeah, it was everywhere in the woods. I could actually roll in it and not be affected. Just one of those lucky few.. :awesome:
 
  • #19
You should still try and avoid it. Being extremely allergic to poison ivy, I have done tons of research on the stuff. Even people who are not affected can and will eventually be affected after some magical random number of contacts. I avoid the stuff like the plague. Last time I was at one of the bogs here in Ohio I ended up with huge patches on my right elbow, arms, and across my face. It was horrible.
 
  • #20
Those are some really nice set of wild CP pics, and the moss in the last pics look really amazing too!
 
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