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Wasp
-2.15, -77.69
Field Notes
Description:
Medium sized 6-10 cm black wasps with cinnamon or reddish wings.
Habitat:
Their nests are round and usually completely covered with wasps. This one was on the mission station in Makuma in the Amazon rainforest of SE Ecuador.
Notes:
I hit a softball sized nest with the tractor tire while mowing. I saw it the instant I hit it. The wasps rose in a cloud, not unlike in the cartoons, and did everything but form an arrow as they descended on me. We figure I was stung over 100 times. Within an hour I had stomach cramps to where I couldn't sit up. Being in the middle of the jungle far from doctors, my wife and I treated it with prayer and antihistamine. I was 3 days recovering from it. Needless to say, they are very aggressive.
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