Yellowjacket bites

[svnmag]

I don't think the shop vac is necessary or advisable in your situation E. Just go down at night with a flashlight and spray it down. Worm's situation was different from what I gather from each post. Also, you won't even need the long range stuff. Spray down the two or three guards then saturate the nest. I'd do it for you for a Bud 40.

 

[Bowhunter_24]

I would do the safe thing and burn the house down

 

[guywhofishes]

One day I awoke to hear the five neighbor kids (10-2 years old) screaming bloody murder. They had disturbed a big yellowjacket nest in an old wood pile. They were all stung numerous times.

I was super pissed that they would attack kids. Their Dad was out of town - so I decided to address this issue with force right then/there. I put on rubber boots and heavy goretex, facemask, goggles, duct-taped all seams, yadda.

I dug into the woodpile - then the ground once I found the entrance. I dug until I exposed the nest with cells, pupae (or whatever), it was gross like a movie. One got through the defenses and stung me in the temple - causing me to rethink my mission half way through. Yes - it burns like the Devil, not my first time. Sprayed two cans of whackem juice into the seething mass that I suspected contained the queen and covered it back in and packed it down hard with clay.

I felt good going into battle for the little dudes and dudettes. Dad never thanked me. :;:smokin

Now I wish I had drug my shop vac over and did it the smart way. Probably still would have been stung.

 

[Captain Ahab]

One day I awoke to hear the five neighbor kids (10-2 years old) screaming bloody murder. They had disturbed a big yellowjacket nest in an old wood pile. They were all stung numerous times.

I was super pissed that they would attack kids. Their Dad was out of town - so I decided to address this issue with force right then/there. I put on rubber boots and heavy goretex, facemask, goggles, duct-taped all seams, yadda.

I dug into the woodpile - then the ground once I found the entrance. I dug until I exposed the nest with cells, pupae (or whatever), it was gross like a movie. One got through the defenses and stung me in the temple - causing me to rethink my mission half way through. Yes - it burns like the Devil, not my first time. Sprayed two cans of whackem juice into the seething mass that I suspected contained the queen and covered it back in and packed it down hard with clay.

I felt good going into battle for the little dudes and dudettes. Dad never thanked me. :;:smokin

Now I wish I had drug my shop vac over and did it the smart way. Probably still would have been stung.

Even with a heavy coat, bibs and other protective gear that takes balls. I have sprayed many wasp nests for people with the long range wasp spray. That can get hairy, but I was never stung. One nest was bigger than a basketball. Holy #%^& did they roll out of that thing when I hit it. Piles of dead ones under it come morning. I thought it was kind of fun, actually.

 

[guywhofishes]

Even with a heavy coat, bibs and other protective gear that takes balls. I have sprayed many wasp nests for people with the long range wasp spray. That can get hairy, but I was never stung. One nest was bigger than a basketball. Holy #%^& did they roll out of that thing when I hit it. Piles of dead ones under it come morning. I thought it was kind of fun, actually.

Yeah - I usually wait for cold mornings to spray - they are pretty much unable to swarm due to low body temp. I should have waited for the next cool morning but I was all full of "save the world" hormone (the kind that gets guys hurt/killed cuz it makes you stupid).

 

[svnmag]

Guy, that's the difference(kick ass defending the kids BTW). E has a little situation in the basement requiring no more noise than a flashlight and a can of Raid. YOU could've done the same thing in the evening with the long range spray or a cup of gasoline(no fire involved). I have a lot of experience dealing with these bastards in the Hills. Not so much in Ga. Spiders seemed to be the issue there:

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[guywhofishes]

[h=1]The 10 most painful stings on the planet, by the self-sacrificing man who tried 150 different varieties in the name of science[/h]

• Justin Schmidt's colourful descriptions include how the sting of a yellowjacket wasp is like 'W. C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue'

By Eddie Wrenn for MailOnline
Published: 06:36 EST, 22 May 2012 | Updated: 11:27 EST, 22 May 2012

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Most of us will have felt the pain of a bee sting. Luckily most of us will have avoided the dreaded pain of a tarantula hawk or a fire ant. Justin Schmidt felt all three of these - and 147 other horrible, burning sensations - after a dedicated life-long career devoted to insects. On numerous fieldwork trips, The University of Arizona entomologist would find himself digging up living colonies of creatures, who in turn were not happy with this destructive human scooping them into bags - and promptly sank their fangs, stingers or pincers into him. Still, no pain, no gain, and Schmidt turned his experiences into the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, ranking 78 species in a list which, while subjective, was put together by the man who must surely know best, ranking their pain on a scale of 1 to 4.

[h=3]COUNTDOWN OF THE TOP 10 STINGERS: HOW SCHMIDT RATED THE PAIN[/h]
[h=3]10) SWEAT BEE[/h]

RATING: 1.0

SCHMIDT SAYS: Light, ephemeral, almost fruity. A tiny spark has singed a single hair on your arm.



[h=3]9) FIRE ANT[/h]

RATING: 1.2

SCHMIDT SAYS: Sharp, mildly alarming. Like walking across a shag carpet and reaching for the light switch.




[h=3]8) BULLHORN ACACIA ANT[/h]

RATING: 1.8
SCHMIDT SAYS: A rare, piercing, elevated sort of pain. Someone has fired a staple into your cheek.


[h=3]7) BALD-FACED HORNET[/h]

RATING: 2.0
SCHMIDT SAYS: Rich, hearty, slightly crunchy. Similar to getting your hand mashed in a revolving door.




[h=3]6) YELLOWJACKET[/h]

RATING: 2.0
SCHMIDT SAYS: Hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine W. C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.


[h=3]5) HONEYBEE[/h]

RATING: 2.0
SCHMIDT SAYS: The sensation is like a matchhead that flips off and burns on your skin.




[h=3]4) RED HARVESTER ANT[/h]

RATING: 3.0
SCHMIDT SAYS: Bold and unrelenting. Somebody is using a drill to excavate your ingrown toenail.


[h=3]3) PAPER WASP[/h]

RATING: 3.0
SCHMIDT SAYS: Distinctly bitter aftertaste. Like spilling a beaker of hydrochloric acid on a paper cut.




[h=3]2) TARANTULA HAWK[/h]

RATING: 4.0
SCHMIDT SAYS: Blinding, shockingly electric. A running hair drier has been dropped into your bubble bath.


[h=3]KING OF THE STINGS: BULLET ANT[/h]

RATING: 4+
SCHMIDT SAYS: Like fire-walking over flaming charcoal with a 3-inch rusty nail grinding into your heel.




He also gave un-scientific-sounding but apt descriptions for each pain, for instance the sting of the yellowjacket wasp felt 'hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine W. C. Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.'.
According to io9, entomologist May Berenbaum described Schmidt's char as: 'A scale from 0 to 4, in which 0 was defined as the sensation of being stung by an insect that cannot penetrate human skin to 2, a familiar intermediate pain (honey bee), to 4, an intensely painful sting.'
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[h=3]THE PAIN OF THE BULLET ANT[/h]The bullet ant, otherwise known as 'paraponera' or the 'giant hunting ant', has a powerful sting that can last for 24 hours.
Some victims have likened the pain to 'being shot with a bullet'.
Luckily for most readers, the ant colonies can only be found in the rainforests of Central America, between Nicaragua and Paraguay. The locals there sometimes use the bites as part of their initiation rites.
It gets worse - the locals weave the ants, which can grow to be an inch long, into clothes made out of leaves, and initiates have to wear the jackets for ten minutes.
The locals will get stung hundreds of times - and reportedly have to repeat the act 20 times.



If you think you can handle the all stings in the world, Schmidt made two other findings that might change your views.
FIrstly, Schmidt said that the more painful a sting felt, the more aggressive the species tended to be.
And, adding further insult injury, some creatures would also release a pheromone with their sting - telling other insects to join in the fun and give more stings to the victim.

If that has still not put you off a sting, io9 reported how the stingers affected our bodies.
'First, enzymes soften, then burst open cellular membranes. Some of these cells, inevitably, will be nerve cells. Wrecking these cells screws up all the electrochemical signaling that nerve cells do, so they end up firing off signals more or less at random.
'Other chemicals restrict blood flow, keeping the pain-causing stuff undiluted and in one place.'
Luckily, most of us will hopefully go through life with little more than the odd sting from a passing wasp or defensive bee - but spare a thought for Schmidt, who is bravely sacrificing his body in the name of science.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...ifferent-varieties-science.html#ixzz3lBLKd5hY
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[Enslow]

Sawed into a hive once with a hedge trimmer. #badtaco

 

[3Roosters]

Last week we decided to eat supper out on the back deck since it was nice out..and it is how we roll when it is nice out. We had seen a few pesky yellow jackets bothering us during suppers a few evenings before..nothing to worry about..nothing a simple flyswatter couldn't handle if they got too close to the table. Last week on the one occasion..things changed. I left my glass of white wine, Reisling to be exact, on the picnic table and headed in the house to assist the better half bringing the remaining dishes outside.
We sat down to eat, like any other normal supper. I proceeded to take a drink...dang..I should have taken a sip...of my glass of Reisling. I should have looked INTO the wine glass. As I was about to swallow this fine wine, the back of my throat felt something more than wine..something more solid and with more body than Reisling. Life flashed before me in that instant when I realized I may be swallowing the before mentioned pesky yellow jacket. I instituted my quick reflex gagging technique to hack that thing up. Shortly thereafter, I had this stinging sensation in the back of my throat. The dirty bugger must of stung me while I was hacking him out. My better half asked if I was allergic to them..to which I replied..I hope not...she gave me some Benadryl and I swallowed ice water the rest of the evening, hoping to heck that I don't have to go to ER with a swollen throat. The rest of the evening my throat felt like one of the worst sore throats I had ever had..ranked up there anyway. End of Story.

 

[Kurtr]

when i was 3 or some thing like that mom put me in a onsie pjs and i started screaming bloody murder there was a couple wasps in it i still to this day will go out of my way to kill the dirty bastards

 

[Kickemup]

I have only been stung once thought it was a skeeter buzzing in my ear so I tried to swat it boy was I wrong.

 

[Ristorapper]

Thought I had killed one early this morning while loading my truck today. Some three hours later I find it half alive within the mail I had loaded. Commenced to behead the thing and think the body of it continued to wiggle for 20 minutes. I didn't think they were that tough. I'd post a video but would probably get fired from work for killing on the job (going postal).

Early in my career I used to drink Mountain dew. NOT this time of year do you want an open can of that stuff in the truck or anywhere near you.

Simple do it yourself trap. Empty 2 liter pop bottle. Cut the top 1/3 of the bottle off and invert it on the bottom 2/3. Tape/staple together. Fill with sugar water and a drop or two of dish soap. Remember this will attract more than you already have on hand so beware.