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Thread #111924   Message #2364365
Posted By: gnu
12-Jun-08 - 01:49 PM
Thread Name: BS: New or startling bugs in your area
Subject: RE: BS: New or startling bugs in your area
Anyone know the name of.... I hired a survey crew in Wabush, Labrador and set them to work cutting lines and such at the airport. One day, the Flight Service Station radioed me and told me something was wrong... the lads were running around in all directions. I got clearance and floored the old Ford up the runway. The lads saw me coming and made a beeline (sorry) for the pave. What could it be? A bear? A rabid wolf? A horny (ditto) moose?

Nope... they had been buzzed by a "Yellow Devil", but I can't say for sure that was the name they told me. They were all shook up, out of breath... one lad was shaking so bad he couldn't talk. They described it thusly - anywhere from an inch to two inches long with a yellow body that Y'd out to two hook shaped stingers "hon d'arse of er b'y n if she gets dem ooks in ya, ya got a hower ta get ta ospital ere yer fooked". They would not go back in the woods. I agreed that they could work elsewhere.

Is that the name? Is there such a bug in Labrador?