A first time in my life happened today.......

[NyleRN]

Out mowing this afternoon and must have ran over a yellow jacket nest. One managed to light me up right on top of my 3rd toe of my right foot. Been awhile since I've felt that kind of pain. Had to pull the stinger out with guts still on it. 3 hrs later and still hurts lime a mo fo

 

[WebSnyper]

I found this in my basement a couple of weeks ago... got tagged in the neck (luckily only once) after I pulled back the insulation. I had an exterminator deal with it, as there was going to be no where to run if I stirred them up.

 

[mom45]

I remember when we ran over a nest with the push mower as kids. That was not pretty! Those things are horrible. Make sure you have Benadryl on hand this time of year and take it as soon as possible after being stung. Helps to stop any possible reaction. I am allergic so always have it in the cabinet this time of year and in my purse.

 

[Snapdragon]

I got stung today too. Hurt like a sumb!tch.

 

[Indy_Guy_77]

Hornets/yellow jackets and wasps don't have barbed stingers - and therefore don't leave their stingers behind.

So - if you had to pull a stinger & guts out - it weren't a hornet/yellow jacket.

-J-

 

[NyleRN]

I was doing some reading up on yellow jackets. Sites state they can sting multiple times. Maybe it wasn't a yellow jacket since I pulled the stinger out. But I heard swarming right after the sting and leaped off my mower and headed towards the house quickly cause I knew what I did. I guess it still hurts cause he got me right in the last joint of my toe

 

[mom45]

One of our elderly neighbors got attacked by a bunch of yellow jackets a few years ago. She was weeding and disturbed their nest. She had over 200 stings all over her body (low estimate from what I understand) and we were killing the ones that were caught in her clothing. They were definitely yellow jackets and there were many stingers left behind. Maybe it depends on how you kill them??? She said she wasn't allergic, but I raced over with my Benadryl when her daughter called me and helped her get them off of her. They did take her to the hospital due to the number of stings and the doctor was glad they did. She still has spots on her legs that never healed from those stings and that was 3 or 4 years ago.

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

One of our elderly neighbors got attacked by a bunch of yellow jackets a few years ago. She was weeding and disturbed their nest. She had over 200 stings all over her body (low estimate from what I understand) and we were killing the ones that were caught in her clothing. They were definitely yellow jackets and there were many stingers left behind. Maybe it depends on how you kill them??? She said she wasn't allergic, but I raced over with my Benadryl when her daughter called me and helped her get them off of her. They did take her to the hospital due to the number of stings and the doctor was glad they did. She still has spots on her legs that never healed from those stings and that was 3 or 4 years ago.

Childhood friend of mine died a few years ago because of a single sting. I'm not sure what happened because he knew he was allergic...but it only took one to do him in.

 

[Snapdragon]

The doctor in the ER where I work said today that yellow jackets do leave their stingers behind. My sting is on the back of my leg, so I couldn't see if it was there or not. Sure felt like it.

 

[printcraft]

OK.......... I know bees serve a purpose....... so do spiders................ but can we agree to burn hornets/yellowjackets and the like off the face of the planet?

I had a run in with them as a kid and I don't really have any love for them.

 

[mom45]

OK.......... I know bees serve a purpose....... so do spiders................ but can we agree to burn hornets/yellowjackets and the like off the face of the planet?

I had a run in with them as a kid and I don't really have any love for them.

I'm in on that one!

 

[DRob]

Unfortunately, many people find out they are allergic when it's too late. Can you say EpiPen?

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

OK.......... I know bees serve a purpose....... so do spiders................ but can we agree to burn hornets/yellowjackets and the like off the face of the planet?

I had a run in with them as a kid and I don't really have any love for them.

As long as we add those wood-boring bees in that list. But we gotta save the honey bees.

 

[mom45]

As long as we add those wood-boring bees in that list. But we gotta save the honey bees.

Carpenter bees...those things are so destructive!

 

[GodFearinGunTotin]

Carpenter bees...those things are so destructive!

They need to die.

 

[Gluemanz28]

I hadn't been stung in years until last year. I was building a workshop and went to the tool shed to get some more tools and a yellow jacket was sitting on the nest and didn't like me entering my shed. It flew and popped me above my right eye. I sprayed the nest and killed them. I didn't want to stop working on the workshop so I continued. The next morning my eye was swollen shut. I went to the Dr and got a shot. The swelling was all gone within an hour. A week later I was mowing and made a pass under a tree limb and bumped my head on a limb. It wasn't a limb, it was a hornets nest. I got nailed again a couple times. I mixed up some pounce that I got from a farmer in Owensville and saturated the nest. Then I burned it.

Noah should have killed every one of the suckers while he had them hemmed up on the ark.

 

[Snapdragon]

I couldn't find my epi-pen for hours today, and then I remembered that I threw it in my range bag last time I went to Winamac.

 

[GLOCKMAN23C]

I ran over a yellow jacket nest with the lawnmower several years ago, and got popped by three or four of the little bastages. I Have no love for those foul tempered ****s.

 

[hoosierdoc]

Unfortunately, many people find out they are allergic when it's too late. Can you say EpiPen?

Or Auvi-Q, it'll speak to you and talk you through it

 

[Sybaris]

I gradually became more allergic to bees as I got older until one day a wasp nailed me on the finger and an hour later I was in the hospital. Got there just as my nose and throat were about to close. Wasps seem to be the worst for me. I have epi-pens and benadryl scattered everywhere and always carry a pocket knife in case I have to give myself a tracheotomy.