Growing up as a child, adventure was and still remain my middle name. it was always fun playing outdoors, wandering from place to place, climbing from one uncompleted building to the best part trees where you can get juicy succulent fruits like mangoes, oranges, pear, cashew to mention but a few. Always an experience of a life time.
And so it was on a very hot afternoon, the quest to cool off took us to the fresh green and brown view only the forest can give especially if you are in Africa. I saw a bird nest and was elated, eager to get the catch. Unknown to me , it was one of them birds that make their nest in secured locations with these tiny creatures, the biggest of them only half the length of a pencil stud. Guess what? Wasps
I was busy collecting the content of the nest when reality struck right on my brows as a wasps stung me, the other members of the team also trailing. When a dozen wasps ponce on you all at ones, stinging your arms, face,and legs right through your pants, it would be entirely possible to forget you are seventy feet up. You might charge right off the edge of the roof while you're trying to get away from those tiny little things. You go from college educated man to wailing ape in five easy seconds.
A number of persons have lost their lives from wasps as little as they may appear. Cases of auto wrecks with the only occupant of the vehicles being the drivers who have died, autopsy results show venom from wasps in the blood stream of victims. Construction workers who enter roofs, getting stung by wall wasps, children especially in Africa have died and some have their arms, legs and other body parts damaged all in an attempt to escape from wasps.
They might be little, but be mindful of them. Wasps!!!
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written by Demian Abaver