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Title: Yellow jackets
Post by: Dirty Sanchez on September 19, 2009, 01:20:40 PM
Ow.

Went out to my yard to hack a little brush away.  Hadn't even been out there a minute before I heard some buzzing and a sting a few seconds later.  Little fracker got me on the right ear.  Then I felt another followed by a third on my left elbow.  Ran into the house.  About 6 of them hitched a ride on me in my clothes.  Fortunately didn't get stung again before we killed them all. 

The one on the ear hurts. Bad.  The whole ear is kinda reddish-purple.  Not allergic as far as I know.

Sorry, honey. Can't work in the yard today.  Gotta watch football instead.
Title: Re: Yellow jackets
Post by: cas on September 19, 2009, 01:30:41 PM
i hear ya dude. &@#% bees/wasps.
Title: Re: Yellow jackets
Post by: Rick Daris on September 19, 2009, 01:39:49 PM
Ow.

Went out to my yard to hack a little brush away.  Hadn't even been out there a minute before I heard some buzzing and a sting a few seconds later.  Little fracker got me on the right ear.  Then I felt another followed by a third on my left elbow.  Ran into the house.  About 6 of them hitched a ride on me in my clothes.  Fortunately didn't get stung again before we killed them all. 

The one on the ear hurts. Bad.  The whole ear is kinda reddish-purple.  Not allergic as far as I know.

Sorry, honey. Can't work in the yard today.  Gotta watch football instead.

maybe if you kept better care or your immediate surroundings you wouldn't have encountered this problem.
Title: Re: Yellow jackets
Post by: Dirty Sanchez on September 19, 2009, 03:21:56 PM
It was some weeds growing in a burnpile.  And we live in the country. 
Title: Re: Yellow jackets
Post by: pwrcat1 on September 19, 2009, 04:38:54 PM
http://www.ksufans.com/forums/index.php?topic=42910.0 (http://www.ksufans.com/forums/index.php?topic=42910.0)
Title: Re: Yellow jackets
Post by: Rick Daris on September 19, 2009, 04:46:52 PM
It was some weeds growing in a burnpile.  And we live in the country. 



maybe if you kept better care or your immediate surroundings you wouldn't have encountered this problem.
Title: Re: Yellow jackets
Post by: Dirty Sanchez on September 19, 2009, 05:08:35 PM
Its a 40 hour a week job to keep up with the weeds in the summertime out here.  Not too worried about a small pile on the edge of the property.  That's the nice thing about living in the country.
Title: Re: Yellow jackets
Post by: KSt8er on September 20, 2009, 10:32:43 AM
Yup, by far the nastiest sting in the wasp world, and when those little sombitches get angry they go postal. 
Title: Re: Yellow jackets
Post by: Dirty Sanchez on September 20, 2009, 08:14:01 PM
Somehow got a small one in between my legs about mid-thigh.  Must've crawled up my shorts. :eek:
Title: Re: Yellow jackets
Post by: Rick Daris on September 20, 2009, 08:59:44 PM
Its a 40 hour a week job to keep up with the weeds in the summertime out here.  Not too worried about a small pile on the edge of the property.  That's the nice thing about living in the country.

you work on your yard forty hours a week, have weeds, a burn pile and ferocious stinging animals. what exactly is the nice part?  :confused:
Title: Re: Yellow jackets
Post by: jeffy on September 20, 2009, 10:16:30 PM
Its a 40 hour a week job to keep up with the weeds in the summertime out here.  Not too worried about a small pile on the edge of the property.  That's the nice thing about living in the country.

you work on your yard forty hours a week, have weeds, a burn pile and ferocious stinging animals. what exactly is the nice part?  :confused:

many, many Morels.

Title: Re: Yellow jackets
Post by: Dirty Sanchez on September 21, 2009, 07:36:46 AM
Its a 40 hour a week job to keep up with the weeds in the summertime out here.  Not too worried about a small pile on the edge of the property.  That's the nice thing about living in the country.

you work on your yard forty hours a week, have weeds, a burn pile and ferocious stinging animals. what exactly is the nice part?  :confused:

many, many Morels.



No nosy neighbors, wild turkey and deer roaming through the yard, and I can whiz in my yard and no one cares.
Title: Re: Yellow jackets
Post by: SkinnyBenny on September 21, 2009, 02:00:52 PM

No nosy neighbors, wild turkey and deer roaming through the yard, and I can whiz in my yard and no one cares.

This is absolutely key.

For the record, a quick antidote to yellow jacket stings is to put tobacco on it.  Snap a cigarette in half and put it on the sting and it will subside quicker.
Title: Re: Yellow jackets
Post by: Dirty Sanchez on September 21, 2009, 04:48:24 PM

No nosy neighbors, wild turkey and deer roaming through the yard, and I can whiz in my yard and no one cares.

This is absolutely key.

For the record, a quick antidote to yellow jacket stings is to put tobacco on it.  Snap a cigarette in half and put it on the sting and it will subside quicker.

Baking soda works fine since I don't smoke.  And its a helluva lot cheaper.