I was trying to get home but got swarmed!

Icebound wrote:

I often wondered if there are any pilots with this condition. It always
seemed to me that it would be fairly common for wasps to get into those 70's
Cessna cockpits.

A major item on my pre-flight check for a Cessna is to check the vent intakes
for wasp nests. I used to keep a can of bug spray in the gang box at my
tie-down. Other people stuff plastic scrub pads in the holes.

The Maule was a different matter. I never got wasps in the vent system (it's
under the cowl), but they loved to build nests inside the wings near the hole
for the aileron counterweight. I would move one aileron to check it out, and by
the time I got around to check the other one, there would usually be a wasp
sitting on it wondering what was going on. I've gone out for a flight and come
back to find a little wasp family buzzing around waiting on home to return.

George Patterson
Why do men's hearts beat faster, knees get weak, throats become dry,
and they think irrationally when a woman wears leather clothing?
Because she smells like a new truck.