Troy...that experience would have terrified me beyond control! I am nervous and shivering now just reading about all the bee stories. Ick. Before I was married and I was living with my mom I remember the cats would occationally find a bee or wasp in the house and bat it around as if it were a harmless fly. None of them ever got stung that I am aware of. And I also remember a dog I had when I was young used to chomp at bees and wasps right out of the air, often catching them in his mouth. Ouch.

And Ben...there are flys here in Michigan called black flys (not sure what their official names are), and they have been known to drive humans to insanity with their persistant pestering. You could shampoo your hair in deet and they don't mind. They don't go away. They follow no matter how much you wave your arms, how fast you run, and even if you happen to jump into a lake...they will hover until your head pops out of the water and buzz a zillion mph. around your head, making sure they thouroughly get your ears, nose, and eyes thourough buzzing. When I go up north every summer with my mother (not my husbands cup of tea) we found a make-shift way to get those flies one by one. When one is doing it's thing (buzzing obnixiously and pointlessly around and around and around my head and close to my ears) I wait til the lil **** lands on the top of my head for a rest, give my mother a signal that there's perfect opportunity to kill the little **** then she slowly comes towards me and quickly wacks me on the top of my head where the lil **** was resting from the routine of needless pestering. It left a little fly body on my head and I wore it as a victory hat! "Any of you other stupid **** flies care to land on my head??? Be my guests" We killed maybe 40 or so between us that way. That was the only way we found that works to kill them as they are fast and seem to be smart enough to run when my hand rised for the kill.



[This message has been edited by AdoreMyDogs (edited May 01, 2001).]