Dia,
 DS> no...it's just the possibility of...knock on wood the only exerience 
"ve
 DS> had and I'm not sure it was for sure was with this chicken but it sure
 DS> scared me...we have very nasty mosquitoes ....periodically worse than
 DS> other times and go thru encephalitis scares every year and new strains 
f
 DS> these monsters that are the size  of wasps and bite just as badly...
It can happen. When I was sitting outside tonight I notice a mosquito landed 
on me. I was cleaning out the bug zapper at the time. I guess if given a 
choice, which they do have, a mosquito would chose to attach itself to the 
legs of one of my birds rather than the bug zapper.
 DS> you don't really want to kill off the bees...they are in short supply 
ow
 DS> and are necessary to pollinate the plants..some plants are ONLY 
pollinated
 DS> thru the bees...I don't find them as bad as wasps...bees will leave you
 DS> alone unless you step on them...wasps will attack out of no
 DS> where...especially the yellow jackets which are downright vicious..
I haven't had any sting me, but they are definately an nuisance. There must 
e
200 of them at one time gathered around the water bowls for the dogs, not to 
mention for the birds. There are two people in my area that keep bees and one 
lives next door to me. I am worried about the African bees moving into his 
hives.
Don't butterflies and hummingbirds pollinate?
I have a large assortment of creatures that I share a space with. There are 
the
wasps, looks like two different kinds of yellow jackets, then there are those 
hugh red wasp that sting like crazy, the wonderfully large bumble bees have a 
hive here somewhere, usually underground. There is a new wasp that is black
and has a yellow waste band. But the neatest is the plain black wasp. This 
last one I saw in action last summer when it attacked and killed a spider 
with 
it's sting. These are the flying ones...insects. There are also the hawks and 
the owls, which fly.
Next on my list are scorpions and centipeds. Both can kill a bird and have at 
my place. And if you ever want to say ouch, ouch, ouch for about 7 straight 
hours let a centipede bite you. 
But, every year I lose birds to snakes of one kind or another. All I have to 
do is miss one little crack and a snake can get through.
And, last, but not least, are the fire ants. They will get into a nestbox and
strip the little chicks clean to the bone. 
These are just a few of the things that I have to deal with every year. I
wish that the bug zapper worked on all of them. Life would be a lot less 
stressful.
Fran
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