Wasps

[BWillie]

I've never been stung by a wasp or a bee until today and I was stung TWICE today by a stupid wasp. I was going to get some sun on the back porch, and there was a big wasp nest attached to my door and they freaked out and stung me. Then I was trying to get something out of the shed and another one came down and stung me on my hand.

I'm going to punch those wasps right in the face. I hope they all go straight to hell.

Please advise of your wasp or bee stories here and how you eradicated these wretched things.

[Strongside]

Last year I hit a Yellow Jacket nest with a Brush Hog on my family’s Cattle farm. It was like that scene where Macaulay Culkin dies in the movie “My Girl.”

[Kman34]

Years ago on one of our construction sites .. we had a Port A Potty that had a wasps nest under the seat... it had rained for a week and we moved to another job till this site dryed out.. in that time the little bastards got in there under the seat you sit on...
Well guess who was the first one in there to take a shit?? Yep.. my ass and balls had 2 stings each... mother****ers...

[mlyonsd]

Originally Posted by Kman34

Years ago on one of our construction sites .. we had a Port A Potty that had a wasps nest under the seat... it had rained for a week and we moved to another job till this site dryed out.. in that time the little bastards got in there under the seat you sit on...
Well guess who was the first one in there to take a shit?? Yep.. my ass and balls had 2 stings each... mother****ers...

You win. /thread

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by Hammock Parties

jesus **** tarantula hawks

Mother of God

[Fish]

Originally Posted by Frazod

Mother of God

Oh yeah... and just to give you nightmares, they are also a parasitic species. They will hunt big ol' tarantulas, and paralyze them with their sting, then drag them back to a burrow and lay a bunch of eggs on the tarantula body. Which hatch and eat the rest of the tarantula. They have one of the most painful stings in the northern hemisphere. They are pretty much pure evil.

[Inspector]

Mowing the yard at our lake home. Ran over yellow jackets. No shirt on so they covered my gloves, shorts and socks since those were soaked with sweat.

So there I go, running down the hill stripping my clothes off. Finally got away from them and sat at the picnic table in my undies. My brother-in-law peaked around a shed to see if they were still swarming my shorts and gloves - lying on the ground about 20 yards away - and one of the little ****ers came over and stung him on the nose.

I ended up with over 40 stings and still have scars. I barely remember coming back home to the city. Legs were on fire for several days.

Got 12 stings from blue jackets back in the 60's while working at a horse boarding ranch.

I've had a life long hatred for the little ****ers and I hunt them down anywhere I see them.

[vailpass]

Originally Posted by srvy

Found this interesting little tidbit.


http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150...l-insect-sting

As the man behind the Schmidt Sting Pain Index – which rates the pain caused by the stings of different hymenoptera (a group of insects that includes wasps, bees and ants) – leaving well alone has never been an option.

It lists pain on a scale from one to four and unsurprisingly the bullet ant tops the charts.

Level 4: bullet ant, tarantula hawk wasp
Level 3: paper wasp, harvester ant
Level 2: honey bee, yellow jacket wasp, bald-faced hornet
Level 1.5: bullhorn acacia ant
Level 1: fire ant, sweat bee
“Level four you don’t want to know,” explains Dr Schmidt.

“The pain is so immediate and intense that it shuts down all illusions of life as normal. Imagine sticking a finger in a 240 volt electrical socket.”

Rated just beneath the bullet ant for the excruciating, but shorter-lasting nature of its sting is another tiny terror, the tarantula hawk wasp. Females use their venom to paralyse much larger tarantulas to feed to their offspring.

“Blinding, fierce, shockingly electric. A running hair drier has just been dropped into your bubble bath,” is the description given by Dr Schmidt.

This crazy bastard let himself get stung by most of those on your list including tarantula hawk and bullet ant.
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[Hoopsdoc]

My brother took a drink of soda that had a wasp or some other kind of stinging insect in it. It stung him 3 times, mouth, throat and stomach.

He ended up in the hospital for a night.

[HonestChieffan]

Originally Posted by Bwana

Chlorinated Brake cleaner. It will drop those little bastards right out of the sky and absolutely take out a nest. Either that, or have In58men come over and start it on fire.

Sounds delightful!

Chlorinated brake cleaner has been around for the longest and still exists today even though its main ingredients have been banned in other applications. The term “Chlorinated” refers to the presence of Chlorine atoms in certain places within the molecular structure. These chlorine atoms help power the chemical’s solvent properties.

Tetrachloroethylene

Tetrachloroethylene (also called perchloroethylene or PERC) is an industrial solvent used for degreasing. Tetrachloroethylene is high performing, non-flammable and fast drying (through evaporation) which are all properties sought after in a brake cleaner.

Tetrachloroethylene is also highly toxic. It is a Group 2A carcinogen, which means that it is probably carcinogenic to humans and also a central nervous system depressant which can enter the body through respiratory or dermal exposure. It is also probably linked to Parkinson’s Disease.

At high temperatures (such as sparks) Tetrachloroethylene turns into extremely deadly Phosgene gas, which is a chemical weapon that kills in very low concentrations.

[Hog's Gone Fishin]

Originally Posted by vailpass

This crazy bastard let himself get stung by most of those on your list including tarantula hawk and bullet ant.
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[jd1020]

Don't think I've ever been stung by a wasp. I've had plenty around me I just never freak out and start swatting at them. I've had a few unfortunate wasps get inside through an open window that met their fate with simple fly swatter.

The biggest nest I've had around was a honey bee colony that used my grill on the back deck. Went out one day and noticed an awful lot of bees flying around and saw them go in and out of the ventilation hole. I called a local bee keeper and he came and got the hive for free and even gave me a small sample jar of honey after he removed them.

[ThaVirus]

Originally Posted by Fish

Technically wasps do contribute quite a bit to society. They kill tons of aphids/caterpillars/etc that would otherwise kill crops. And they pollinate just the same as bees do. That said, they're ****ing aggressive assholes.

Read this recently: https://theconversation.com/in-defen...the-tale-60729

Hmm, I had always read that they didn't pollinate.. learn something new every day.

I suppose everything on this planet has its place in the order of things. Mosquitoes seem worthless too but I'm sure they serve some sort of purpose.

[B_Ambuehl]

I've been stung by most bee and hornet species & the red wasp stings definitely hurt the worst. Those things HURT. A couple of them started to build a nest behind the side mirror on my car and and stung me in the hand when I rolled the window down to get my food at a drive thru.

Honeybees are more of a minor nuisance and their stings actually have some medicinal value (anti-inflammatory).

[Strongside]

Originally Posted by Inspector

Mowing the yard at our lake home. Ran over yellow jackets. No shirt on so they covered my gloves, shorts and socks since those were soaked with sweat.

So there I go, running down the hill stripping my clothes off. Finally got away from them and sat at the picnic table in my undies. My brother-in-law peaked around a shed to see if they were still swarming my shorts and gloves - lying on the ground about 20 yards away - and one of the little ****ers came over and stung him on the nose.

I ended up with over 40 stings and still have scars. I barely remember coming back home to the city. Legs were on fire for several days.

Got 12 stings from blue jackets back in the 60's while working at a horse boarding ranch.

I've had a life long hatred for the little ****ers and I hunt them down anywhere I see them.

Yeah, this was pretty much me as well. Fortunately I was just a few yards from the house and was able to get inside and isolate the few that were on me at that point.

The WORST, though, was my incident with Fire Ants as a kid.

I was about 6 and still vividly remember it. I was standing beside a fence down the street from our house in Lafayette, Louisiana. I was talking through the chain-link to a couple of neighbor kids, who were jumping on a trampoline. One of them said "Watch out, you're standing in fire ants" and AS SOON as I budged to move, they lit me up. They had crawled all over my body and I didn't even realize it. By the time I made it up the street to my parents house, I was covered in bites and ants. My mom stripped me down and threw me into the shower.

Might still be the most painful experience of my life. It's either that or shattering 3 bones in my right hand between two colliding football helmets. It's close, though.

[Bob Dole]

Originally Posted by Fish

Anybody ever run into any cicada killers? They are a big wasp species that also build ground nests. They tend to scare the everloving hell out of people. The males anyway. They will divebomb people who come near. But the thing is, it's only horny males looking for sex, who have no stinger to even harm you. Because only female wasps have stingers. Males don't. In the past we've had some on the disc golf course that I frequent. The males would hang out in a big evergreen tree on hole 9, and bomb anybody who got nearby. Harmless but scary even knowing they were harmless.

Cicada killer:

We had those at work. It’s pretty cool to watch one take down a cicada.