Well it was my girlfriends moms birthday, so we went to her grandparents house for dinner and cake and icecream. She lives out in the woods plenty of critters running around. Everytime we go ,I go looking for snakes and salamanders. Every time I come up with nothing! Which for me is absolutly pathetic. They have a couple piles of logs that are prime spots for snakes. No one ever warned me about what else was living in those logs! And out of the hundreds of times I've been herping I've never had this happen. I was turning over logs and finding nothing but insects and spiders. Well there was this one log that I got a feeling that something was under it. And boy was I right! I went to go turn it over and noticed that it was rotten. Which ment there was a good chance there were salamanders. So I went to turn it again and it broke open in half. Nothing for a split second then hundreds if not a thousand yellow jackets swarmed out and gave me a good run! And boy do those things sting! And they can sting you multiple times unlike a bee. No body there warned me that they were really common in their wood piles. I guess I learned my lesson! Well maybe not, after the stinging went down I went back out looking for snakes again. Once a herper always a herper , I'm not gonna let a thousand yellow jackets stop me from catching a snake!
I hope everyone got a good laugh out of this I know I did.
peace,
nathan
