Burning Spray

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Jeff
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Burning Spray

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I'm climbing a sport climb this weekend and come around a small roof and look up to the next hand hold.
I feel a few drops hit my face and think "wtf?" It's sunny and dry, where's this water coming from?
Then I see about three feet up is a weird looking black beetle caught in a spider web and the spider is going at him.
The beetle is squirting out this juice and that's what hit me.
The stuff starts burning like acid. Glad I didn't get any in my eyes.
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Post by Yasmeen »

That's pretty wild, Jeff! I thought this post was going to be about someone spraying at Miguel's, but this is more interesting.
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Post by unk »

What type of super-powers do you anticipate?

Hopefully it wasn't a stink beetle.....

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Post by dhoyne »

I got covered in a huge spider web leading the second pitch of Party Time this weekend. It was right on the section where the crack gets pretty wide (maybe the crux of the top half?) and you have to lay back a few moves. Fun stuff.

There were also about 20-25 bees swarming around American Crack. That was interesting too. :D
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Post by The Pirate »

The bee's and wasps are thick at Fortress Wall. The whole top ledge was swarming with big bummble bee's...they were docile for the most part. the wasps on the other hand were wicked mean.They are in the pockets to the right of the route Snake. Also wasps on the route Jump for joy at Roadside, they were just above the third bolt, nested in a pocket.
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Post by Horatio Felacio »

jeff. the beetle and spider you saw...that was me and SCIN. he was playing creepy crawl in to bed with me and i got so excited my diarrhea acted up and sprayed jalapeno shit juice on you. sorry.
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Post by Jeff »

:shock:
Wonder what the outcome of this spraying might be now that I really know what happened.....
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Post by dipsi »

See, Jeff! I told you that beetle looked familiar! :shock:
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Post by captain static »

Might've been a blister beetle: http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/urban/med ... eetles.htm
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Post by Jeff »

May have been.
I just remembered, I got a picture.
Check it out and let me know what kind you think they are?
http://redriverclimbing.com/album_pic.p ... c97c6a8f1a
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