simple job - paint the deck. First, get hit on the left shoulder; just a graze, not too bad. Go to a rolling toolbox drawer, pull it out & rip out a nest. Got it on the back of the right hand. Pull up a chair to sit down & rest, try to figure out where I'm going wrong & got hit on right hand finger. Typing tonite with right hand twice as big as left hand. When I was young, 20 minutes later I never knew where the sting was. The devils build a nest & don't get aggressive til the big hatch, then the mob attacks. At least it made me forget about the mosquito bites & sweatbee stings.
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Anonymous-0
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If you rub a little toothpaste on the stings, it'll take the sting away.
Tom in TN
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2X4,
Those wasps at your place were just visiting you. They actually live on my farm. This is wasp central.
All kinds of home remedies. If you can get to it right away, I've always found that common old housecleaning ammonia takes the sting away almost immediately.
I was looking at a display of sting reducing treatments at the Co-Op a while back. The first listed ingredient is ammonia.
I keep little packets with me for use when I'm away from the house.
Tom in TN
Those wasps at your place were just visiting you. They actually live on my farm. This is wasp central.
All kinds of home remedies. If you can get to it right away, I've always found that common old housecleaning ammonia takes the sting away almost immediately.
I was looking at a display of sting reducing treatments at the Co-Op a while back. The first listed ingredient is ammonia.
I keep little packets with me for use when I'm away from the house.
Tom in TN
tomtirediron
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Daughter got it once this morning
(Sat) helping with firewood. Afternoon discovered a 10" diameter wasp nest on the Sat. dish base about 4' from where I'm putting on siding next week. I'm all for leaving bees but had to give these 2 the Raid treatment this AM.
(Sat) helping with firewood. Afternoon discovered a 10" diameter wasp nest on the Sat. dish base about 4' from where I'm putting on siding next week. I'm all for leaving bees but had to give these 2 the Raid treatment this AM.
Wheat Farmer
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Nothing else around put mud on it right away. Oh yes once out in a dry field I had to make mud. It worked. Enough details for now how I made mud.
Larry NEIL
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I use a penny.
BAnNC
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- Western North Carolina
No wasps that I didn't see first. But, last weekend found my first two yellowjacket nests. Those buggers are the worst at protecting their property. They will chase you more than 100 ft til they find you.
old
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- Camdenton Missouri
Got hit by one a week ago. I have to be very careful when I do because I can end up in the hospital real easy if I get more then just a small hit like I did last week
Got stung twice yesterday, for the first time in a couple of years. Was hooking up a trailer that had been used only a couple of weeks ago- reached up under the ball hitch to make sure the clamp was back where it would clear, and felt the little paper comb, then two quick stings.
Its a strange little wasp-like critter, with black and yellow markings- a little elongated, like a mud-dauber wasp, but not as long, and colored more like a yellow jacket. I've only begun seeing them in the past few years- they make a little paper comb which is attached by a very thin "attachment". They are not aggressive.
And I seem to have developed an immunity to bee stings- it hurts for just a minute or so, and within 5 minutes, I cannot even tell I've been stung. No swelling, no pain or tightness, nothing. I'm not complainin'.
Its a strange little wasp-like critter, with black and yellow markings- a little elongated, like a mud-dauber wasp, but not as long, and colored more like a yellow jacket. I've only begun seeing them in the past few years- they make a little paper comb which is attached by a very thin "attachment". They are not aggressive.
And I seem to have developed an immunity to bee stings- it hurts for just a minute or so, and within 5 minutes, I cannot even tell I've been stung. No swelling, no pain or tightness, nothing. I'm not complainin'.
dr sportster
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I got one in the eye last week. Last year I got one in the eye and after being convinced to go to the emergency room.,got a 900 dollar hospital bill. This time I drove right to the pharmacy and took two benadryls. I have nests all over and did see one going into a hole of an unused tool box. I plugged the hole but won't try to open the tool box just yet.
I saw in the paper today that a couple in Pantego, Texas was attacked by a swarm of some 30,000 bees (apparently African bees) while they were exercising their miniature horses. They were stung numerous times, but the horses were killed. They said the horses were almost completely covered with bees.
Paul from MI
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Got one onmy left hand today, getting some scrap iron ready to build a basket. Daughter was righrt there with a pressure washer--2,000psi absolutely solves the problem.
True story: My dad worked for the same grocery chain for about 30 years before retiring. One time he borrowed my trailer to move some grocery baskets from one store to another, about a fifteen mile round trip. He noticed there were a lot of yellow jackets flying around everywhere he went, but didn't think a lot about it. Turns out he was hauling two large nests, one under each fender well, the whole way. Evidently most of the critters stayed with the nest while he was moving. I know there were still plenty left when I got the trailer back.
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