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Subject: [Leica] Converting Trouble into Medicine
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 14:12:29 -0500
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Thanks, George.

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 10/2/2016 2:10 PM, George Lottermoser wrote:
> +1 - very interesting indeed
>
> a note off the iPad, George
>
> On Oct 2, 2016, at 1:49 PM, lluisripollphotography <lluisripollphotography 
> at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Very interesting and well documented,  we have usually these wasps here 
>> and as far as I know there are not such prevention care?
>>
>> Lluis
>>
>>
>>
>>> El 2 oct 2016, a les 19:31, Jim Nichols <jhnichols at lighttube.net> va 
>>> escriure:
>>>
>>> Several weeks ago, I discovered a Yellow Jacket nest in my back yard.  I 
>>> kept a wary eye on it, but worried that my lawn maintenance guy might 
>>> get stung.
>>>
>>> On Friday, the local newspaper, The Tullahoma News, ran an article on a 
>>> Winchester, TN resident who traps Yellow Jackets, Hornets, and Guinea 
>>> Wasps, and freezes them, eventually packing them in dry ice and shipping 
>>> them to the lab of AKL Source Material in Pennsylvania.  There, the 
>>> venom sacs are extracted by hand and used to create anti-venom.  I gave 
>>> him a call and told him about my nest.  He arrived yesterday afternoon 
>>> as I was watching a football game.
>>>
>>> I decided to document the process.  The first photo shows the nest 
>>> entrance as I found it, essentially a hole in the ground laid bare by 
>>> the passage of many insects.
>>>
>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Yellow+Jacket+Nest.TIFF.html
>>>
>>> Pete Waldenmaier's "BeeBusters" truck.
>>>
>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Bee+Busters+Truck.tif.html
>>>
>>> The vacuum trap, essentially a tank vacuum cleaner with a special 
>>> collector trap.
>>>
>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/The+Vacuum+Trap.tif.html
>>>
>>> The trap in position at the nest hole.
>>>
>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Trap+in+Position.tif.html
>>>
>>> Final adjustments.
>>>
>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Final+Adjustments.tif.html
>>>
>>> After about an hour, the insect stream slows, so Pete hammers on the 
>>> ground to disturb them, and more start flying out.  The vacuum captures 
>>> most of them immediately.
>>>
>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Hammering+on+the+Ground.tif.html
>>>
>>> His truck is filled with support equipment, including a freezer and 
>>> bottles of carbon dioxide.
>>>
>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Support+Equipment.tif.html
>>>
>>> The final product is a bottle of Yellow Jackets.
>>>
>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Yellow+Jackets.tif.html
>>>
>>> Pete stuns the insects with carbon dioxide before placing them in the 
>>> freezer to die.  To be usable, the insects must remain frozen until the 
>>> venom sacs are harvested at the lab.
>>>
>>> http://www.gallery.leica-users.org/v/OldNick/Stunning+with+Carbon+Dioxide.tif.html
>>>
>>> While he had this operation going on at my house, he had a parallel 
>>> operation going on about 15 miles away.  I'm told there are only about 
>>> 40 of these collectors nationwide.
>>>
>>> Comments and critiques welcomed and appreciated.
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