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Awww. Sorry...
Something in the air? That bites. Wonder what it was?
I need an epi pen too, but my doctors would never give me one. ...silly military doctors... Only been stung twice but the second time I had a half a cantaloupe on my shoulder and could barely breathe by the time my dad got me to the hospital. Mom had dried clothes outside that day and accidentally folded a bee in the shirt I put on to go to dance class.
Wasps and hornets piss me off though. Went in our back shed a few weeks ago and didn't realize there was a nest above the door. Brown and black bugger zoomed me straight in the face and stung me in the hair line. Felt like I was hit by a brick. My neighbor was with me whilst I freaked out and sat on the steps monitoring my breathing. (I don't have insurance so I wasn't going in unless it was dire.) Had a freaking lump for two days!
We had a hay bale under our deck. My wife was out supervising my son as he was using it as a target for his bow and arrow (this was about 12 years ago when my son was about 7 years old). Wasps had built a nest inside the hay bale and they came flying out and stung her in the face about 20 times. She has a sensitivity to bees, so she ended up in the emergency room and they gave her benadryl intravenously. She now carries an epi pen with her.
I doused the hay bale with about 5 cans of wasp spray. When I took the hay bale apart, the wasp nest was the size of a basketball and it had 5 levels of pods/cocoons and there was easily several dozen dead wasps.
Our front steps are concrete, which means it is basically hollow with a concrete cap covering the top. There was a crack at the bottom where the "box" sits on the ground, and for over a year I would see honeybees (the big furry ones) flying in and out during the spring and summer months. One day our Pom, Holly, was out and she disturbed one of the bees, so it started trying attacking her. I quickly brought her inside, and then used a can of the expanding insulation to close off the crack. As soon as I had finished sealing it up, all of a sudden I saw all these bees trying to get back into the nest. They got stuck in the insulation and died. For weeks after that, I would see bees trying to find an alternative way to try to get back to their nest.
Really?? I haven't had one since I was in my early thirties so I guess I wouldn't know that, lol. I suppose if I asked for one now I would be told the same thing!
My granddaughter and I are both blankie babies. I even have a favorite one I sleep with, and so does Kennedie!
They were supposed to test the air in the office (I worked in a hospital!!) but they never did. Eventually they moved us out of that office and I stopped having the reaction. Go figure.
Oh man, both of those reactions sound bad! I got stung on the wrist once climbing down a mountain in Alaska. It was one of those that makes a nest in the ground (hornet?) and it stung me on the arm right above my watch band. My arm started swelling up and it took me a minute to get my watch off (it had a fancy clasp) and when I did get it off my whole hand went POOF!! My fingers swelled up like sausages instantly! By the time we got down the mountain and across the canal back to the island I was working on the skin was actually starting to split. Just the top layer, but it was so freaky. I was working as a crab processor that summer and I couldn't put a glove over my hand for 2 days, despite loading up on benadryl. I pretty much just slept during that time, though. I don't handle benadryl very well, lol.
I can't even imagine being stung on the head. That must have hurt like crazy!!!!
She started becoming sensitive about 4 or 5 years before that when she stepped on a ground nest and got stung.
Oh man, your poor wife!
Even thinking about that makes me shiver. I would have nightmare for a really long time if something like that happened to me. Of course I would probably not be alive to have dreams, though, lol. That's so gross about the bees getting stuck in the foam insulation!! Another nightmare scenario!
Suzie ran through a ground nest in our backyard when she was about 2 years old. I wasn't outside but my husband said one f them was walking around on her head, stinging her repeatedly. Poor doggie. the right side of her head and her eye swelled up HUGE. The vet said to just give her 100 mg of benadryl every 4 hours. That's when I found out that dogs can take a LOT more benadryl than people can. The swelling went down in a few hours, though.
That's scary, to be stung on the face like that. My mom got stung in her ear a few years ago. Lucky for her she is a nurse and it happened in their house. She ran to the bathroom and grabbed 2 benadryl and chewed them but she actually lost consciousness briefly before they started to work. Scared the crap out of me when she called and told me that!
I don't have any allergies to bug bites but avoid them anyway. The pain is real with the wasps in this area. When they bite it feels just like a cigarette put out on your skin. And they bite the instant they land, in a nano second they've bitten and flown off. At first it's just a little sting but in the seconds that follow the heat and pain builds up just like fire.
I have a huge wild blackberry bush in the front yard. Every summer I pick from it but this year there was one area that was off limits. Wasps had a nest a little bigger than a baseball in there. One got me as I picked a berry before I knew it was there. I cussed that wasp then and every day that I had to avoid that area. It held the biggest, fattest berries... all guarded by the wasps. After awhile, it became a game to me to try and pluck a berry without getting stung. (They were so big and juicy and MINE!) If I was stealthy enough I could get the berry without shaking the plant or disturbing them. I even found that on a windy day I could get the berries within a couple inches of the nest since they thought the movement of the bush was just the wind. It was scary but the adrenaline rush and the berry prize made me do it.
I have a huge wild blackberry bush in the front yard. Every summer I pick from it but this year there was one area that was off limits. Wasps had a nest a little bigger than a baseball in there. One got me as I picked a berry before I knew it was there. I cussed that wasp then and every day that I had to avoid that area. It held the biggest, fattest berries... all guarded by the wasps. After awhile, it became a game to me to try and pluck a berry without getting stung. (They were so big and juicy and MINE!) If I was stealthy enough I could get the berry without shaking the plant or disturbing them. I even found that on a windy day I could get the berries within a couple inches of the nest since they thought the movement of the bush was just the wind. It was scary but the adrenaline rush and the berry prize made me do it.
And you didn't think of just spraying the wasp nest to get rid of them? There are so many wasps here, it is a never ending battle between them and me. Every year I see a new wasp nest going up either on my garage door frame, or on my back deck (usually the stairs from the yard to the deck) and I soak it with wasp spray. I easily go through 2 or 3 cans of spray each spring/summer. I spray the nest and leave it there. Other wasps will not use the nest again. You can wait until the winter when the wasps are dormant and the leaves has fallen from the bush so the nest is visible and then soak the darn thing in wasp spray.I don't have any allergies to bug bites but avoid them anyway. The pain is real with the wasps in this area. When they bite it feels just like a cigarette put out on your skin. And they bite the instant they land, in a nano second they've bitten and flown off. At first it's just a little sting but in the seconds that follow the heat and pain builds up just like fire.
I have a huge wild blackberry bush in the front yard. Every summer I pick from it but this year there was one area that was off limits. Wasps had a nest a little bigger than a baseball in there. One got me as I picked a berry before I knew it was there. I cussed that wasp then and every day that I had to avoid that area. It held the biggest, fattest berries... all guarded by the wasps. After awhile, it became a game to me to try and pluck a berry without getting stung. (They were so big and juicy and MINE!) If I was stealthy enough I could get the berry without shaking the plant or disturbing them. I even found that on a windy day I could get the berries within a couple inches of the nest since they thought the movement of the bush was just the wind. It was scary but the adrenaline rush and the berry prize made me do it.
When we first moved into the house in 2002 (it was new construction), there was a giant wasp nest on the eave just outside my daughter's window, the nest was probably a good 12-14 inches in diameter. That nest had to have been built over the course of the year that the house was sitting on the lot. Since the house is a center hall colonial, the sides of the house is a sheer drop and that eave is easily 20 feet off the ground. Couldn't reach the nest from the ground with the spray, so I had to hang my body halfway out my daughter's bedroom window on the second floor to spray the nest. Waited until the fall in the evening when it is cold and the wasps are not active. Soaked the paper nest and then used an ice scraper to scrape the nest off the eave. The next year, wasps started making a nest in the same spot so I sprayed it again and this time I left the nest and the wasps haven't returned since.
Well, I didn't want to hurt them, lol. You see, I was in their area, a wild bush way out in the perimeter of our yard. And... they seemed so happy and content with their little spot of heaven right there in the berries. So, I just tried to get what I wanted from the bush and let them be. Yeah, I know... I'm too soft.
Now, let them suckers come over to my place (oh, and they do) and all bets are off. We find them in the corners of the porch, window frames, under the eaves, in the building out back (yes, inside the building). We do spray them but I never thought to leave the nest there for any that come along after. Seems they're smart little critters to avoid the previous areas of mass destruction. I'll keep that in mind.
Now, let them suckers come over to my place (oh, and they do) and all bets are off. We find them in the corners of the porch, window frames, under the eaves, in the building out back (yes, inside the building). We do spray them but I never thought to leave the nest there for any that come along after. Seems they're smart little critters to avoid the previous areas of mass destruction. I'll keep that in mind.
Yeah, it seems wasps are really particular about where they build their nests. So if you remove the nest, another wasp will eventually build a new nest there. However, if you kill the wasp and leave the nest, other nests will not reuse another wasp's nest nor will they build in the same place, even if the nest is not being used. They're like little gang members in the hood, they won't go into some other wasp's turf.
Finally... a welcome sight. It's only been over a month. 
The light at the end of the FT tunnel.
The light at the end of the FT tunnel.
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