Have any of you had bad experience with bee/wasp/hornet stings?

radioman said:
I always get stung by @#$$%#@$% yellow jackets or wasps. I would be mowing the lawn, or brush hogging, or cutting wood in the forest and they always seem to be there where i am working. Once I find thier nest, most of them are in the ground so I pour gas down the hole and make a starting line. match. POOF! good bye suckas! If in tree or hole somewhere, then I opt for chemicals. EVERY YEAR i have to deal with them.
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Dang, dude. You must live in Yellow Jacket territory. Be thankful you haven't yet found a hornet's nest-- those are even worse to deal with.
 
Here are the most commonly found stinging bugs in the US:

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Several of these are down in southern IL, but not found here in Chicago.
 
ncff07-- was it a nest of these buggers?

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If so, IL has these, as well, down by Carbondale.
 
I was stung by a wasp, probably, once, on the lip - was at a radio control <airplane> flying field and went to drink out of a can of tea and didn't know there was something -in- the can. Stung! It sure did sting, too, on my lip! I have a lot of allergies and have been affected before topically and physically by various reactions to things so I try to have Benedryl with me. But that time <of course> I didn't happen to have any. So I left and went right to a gas station and bought a package of Benedryl and took them.

Once I was outside in our yard and felt something strange about my lip- it felt puffy. So I went inside and looked in the mirror and my lip was swelling and a blotchy color and that part of my face seemed numb-ish or strange. I took Benedryl and drove to my doc's office and they monitored me for 2 hours and I got more Benedryl. But I never actually felt anything sting or "get" me while I was outside earlier, just that my lip suddenly felt strange. It was weird.

My mom has been stung many times by bees and wasps- I remember a particular time, was when I was about 17. I remember cause she got a bad allergic reaction and started swelling up everywhere and we drove to the E.R. - she drove cause I didn't learn how to drive til I was about 25. Then while she was in the E.R., they made an announcement that someone's car was blocking something and it had to be moved. Well, it my mom's car and I couldn't move it cause I didn't know how to drive. I was really worried for my mom and emnbarassed - as a 17 yr. old - since I couldn't move the car.
 
sonocativo said:
Horgotto mention, I did get nailed by 2 hornets in my chest on the highway riding my Harley... was not fun.
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So you don't wear full gear for motorcycle? Tsk tsk.


Check it out my helmet and it was happen from last year during night time. I got almost full of mosquitoes on my shield under five minutes. Thank god, Nothing happen to my face.
 

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Jezie said:
I fell into fire ant mound as a kid. ...
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Ouch!

Sometimes fire ant bites also leave scars, which is an additional bad thing about them. :(

Hubby was telling me how he feels the worst about farm animals that get attacked by fire ants because they can't get away from them. Sometimes they are killed by fire ants. It's awful. :(
 
radioman said:
I always get stung by @#$$%#@$% yellow jackets or wasps. I would be mowing the lawn, or brush hogging, or cutting wood in the forest and they always seem to be there where i am working. Once I find thier nest, most of them are in the ground so I pour gas down the hole and make a starting line. match. POOF! good bye suckas! If in tree or hole somewhere, then I opt for chemicals. EVERY YEAR i have to deal with them.
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Ha ha Same for my hub. I felt bad for all of my kids, hub and his mom. Kids grandma brought her big black german shepardson. He ran around the corner where the grasses that has big hole. All of the wasps ( i think) got out and stung all of them included dog. The evening, my hub pour gas down into the hole and started matching the fire, POOF! Then He put big rock on it. Oh my!! scary.
 
ChicagoBlue2 said:
Here are the most commonly found stinging bugs in the US:

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Several of these are down in southern IL, but not found here in Chicago.
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I like the big fat bumble bees. I watch them get "drunk" on the azalea blooms. Seriously. They suck up so much nectar that they get groggy and fall down! Even the ones that don't conk out fly real slow and bobbing up and down. They are almost tame. I think they'll only sting if you step on one or grab it in your hand. I love my bumbles! :)
 
dogmom said:
I was stung by a wasp, probably, once, on the lip - was at a radio control <airplane> flying field and went to drink out of a can of tea and didn't know there was something -in- the can. Stung! It sure did sting, too, on my lip! I have a lot of allergies and have been affected before topically and physically by various reactions to things so I try to have Benedryl with me. But that time <of course> I didn't happen to have any. So I left and went right to a gas station and bought a package of Benedryl and took them.

Once I was outside in our yard and felt something strange about my lip- it felt puffy. So I went inside and looked in the mirror and my lip was swelling and a blotchy color and that part of my face seemed numb-ish or strange. I took Benedryl and drove to my doc's office and they monitored me for 2 hours and I got more Benedryl. But I never actually felt anything sting or "get" me while I was outside earlier, just that my lip suddenly felt strange. It was weird.

My mom has been stung many times by bees and wasps- I remember a particular time, was when I was about 17. I remember cause she got a bad allergic reaction and started swelling up everywhere and we drove to the E.R. - she drove cause I didn't learn how to drive til I was about 25. Then while she was in the E.R., they made an announcement that someone's car was blocking something and it had to be moved. Well, it my mom's car and I couldn't move it cause I didn't know how to drive. I was really worried for my mom and emnbarassed - as a 17 yr. old - since I couldn't move the car.
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Wow! Not good for you and your family.

Your's is the second story about being stung while drinking. I guess we should all be more careful when drinking outdoors. Scary!
 
Reba said:
I like the big fat bumble bees. I watch them get "drunk" on the azalea blooms. Seriously. They suck up so much nectar that they get groggy and fall down! Even the ones that don't conk out fly real slow and bobbing up and down. They are almost tame. I think they'll only sting if you step on one or grab it in your hand. I love my bumbles! :)
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Me, too. I like the bumblebees better than any of the stinging family-- they're pretty mellow.
 
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Wasps will try to made a nest anywhere they find a hole. The railing to our back steps is metal and it's old and has a crack that gotten bigger , I was going into the house one day and saw a wasp fly right into the hole in the railing. I had some bug spray and used that then I cover the hole with masking tape . I called the manger to get them to fix the hole and they did shit!
 
:wave:Reba, yeah, my mom was really not doing good initially but the reaction was taken care of. They urged her to carry one of those Epipens but I don't think she did. She has some emotional stuff that...affects her thinking sometimes.

Sometimes I do like to watch the bumblebees flap from flower to flower, they seem so intent on their strategy.

Stung while drinking something in Summertime is a common problem - you're right - next time I sure did look INTO what I brought up to my mouth:lol:

While at that same field, my husband was on his way home. He was the last one to fly and the last one through the locking gate. It was his responsiblity to close up the gate, which he went to do - as he was reached for the latch, a bunch of wasps came out of the open top of the fence-post gate and stung him. Luckily he does not have any sensitivity to stinging insects but he was surprised!
 
dogmom said:
:wave:Reba, yeah, my mom was really not doing good initially but the reaction was taken care of. They urged her to carry one of those Epipens but I don't think she did. She has some emotional stuff that...affects her thinking sometimes.

Sometimes I do like to watch the bumblebees flap from flower to flower, they seem so intent on their strategy.

Stung while drinking something in Summertime is a common problem - you're right - next time I sure did look INTO what I brought up to my mouth:lol:

While at that same field, my husband was on his way home. He was the last one to fly and the last one through the locking gate. It was his responsiblity to close up the gate, which he went to do - as he was reached for the latch, a bunch of wasps came out of the open top of the fence-post gate and stung him. Luckily he does not have any sensitivity to stinging insects but he was surprised!
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Ouchie!
 
IT was getting dark when I got in so didn't get a chance to get a pic of whats left of the nest but did some searching the closest I found to it was called the bald faced hornet but didn't have that color on it. Below is a pic of one and what the nest looked like.
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Queen Bee

In August 2012. The queen bee was climbing on my door slide screen and didn't come inside my old apt. The picture isn't clear because of screen to see the shape on the sky background.
 

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PinkBlackZebra00 said:
In August 2012. The queen bee was climbing on my door slide screen and didn't come inside my old apt. The picture isn't clear because of screen to see the shape on the sky background.
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If she had come in, oh, boy. Worker bees do what the queen does, and that is indeed the queen bee.
 
ncff07 said:
IT was getting dark when I got in so didn't get a chance to get a pic of whats left of the nest but did some searching the closest I found to it was called the bald faced hornet but didn't have that color on it. Below is a pic of one and what the nest looked like.
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So not like the one I posted above?
 
That's a big hive there.....

ncff07 said:
IT was getting dark when I got in so didn't get a chance to get a pic of whats left of the nest but did some searching the closest I found to it was called the bald faced hornet but didn't have that color on it. Below is a pic of one and what the nest looked like.
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