Ground Hornets

At about 10 years old, I was playing out in the woods with some friends. I was hiding under a log when I started feeling the stings. I ran to my buddies house and his mother and father threw me in the tub and started running water. As we stripped my clothes off, they started counting ground hornets. It was 40something at final , but I had 24 stings all over my legs, armpits, ears crotch, you name it. They managed to keep me from going into shock and got me to the ER. No real allergic reaction, except that any bee that gets within my sites, I kill. I'm a little psycho about it, and go to great lengths to kill them, even if stung.:D
 
Hey Guys...

MMIAM..

I think your buddy's mom just wanted to see you Nekid!!! LOL

Here Billy.. Hide under this log!! :)

Yaa 40 stings is pretty frigging serious alright..
Someone with a reaction to them could Eaily perish from that many stings....

Can't imagine that many!! yikes!!

ttyle

Eric...
O/ST
 
This is a great thread. When I was about 10 or 11 a friend and I were digging for worms in the compost (fishing bait) and found a yellow jacket nest. I got stung 15 times and didn't go fishing that day. The Orkin guy who came out said the nest was about the size of a football (500 or so yellow jackets).

Aside from that I have lost count how many times I've been stung by bees, wasps or yellow jackets. I been hit on about every part of my body save my privates. Lip, knee, finger, sole of the foot etc.

After the initial shock, I don't think the pain is too bad it just itches like the devil.

I have seen someone have a severe allegic reaction to one sting though. Almost immediate unconsiousness, call the ambulance, her heart stopped twice in route to the hospital. Scarry stuff. Oh, she lived.
 
Yellow jackets are miserable bastards. My mom and I are both allergic, so I keep my eyes out. If it is just a small nest attached to the house I take care of it with YJ/hornet spray, anything beyond that I let the exterminator deal with ;).

Matt
 
I got some stuff grub/insect killer and spread it on the ladies lawn today. After spreading, per the directions, I watered the lawn to activate the chemicals. (I figured that if it worked on grubs and 30 other insects, it wouldn't be nice for the bees.)

I saw where they had originally nested, so I blasted it with the hose...
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They came out of the hole as fast as the water went in. (I thought the nest was empty!) I ended up getting stung AGAIN, this time on the throat. I had one in the laces of my sneaker that was determined to put his ass on something; I was glad I hadn't tied 'em up. As I was asking the lady if she had anymore spray, she said I had one on the collor of my t-shirt (it came off in a hurry and got stomped on). I also put my sneakers on in the street and squished them with my feet (I wasn't sticking my fingers in there for nothing!)

I'm planning on a gasoline party tomorrow night, about 9:00, 9:30, after it's dark. Then, I'm going to put a tarp over the hole for a week. If that doesn't do the trick, then...

"Nuke 'em from orbit, it's the only way to be sure" Aliens II
 
Nasty, sometimes you just have to go for total destruction. Carefully mix some gasoline with soap powder to make some Napalm and try and get it down the hole and then let her rip.
 
Dont ya know, I was walking around in the Pine Barrens today about 3 miles from the jeep and I stepped on a hornets nest. Now the little bastards didn't get me but in my furious attempt to get away from all the buzzing I slipped in the loose sand and pulled something in my calf, had to limp all the way back to the truck.

This thread was the first thing I thought of.
 
HA!
Don 1, bee's, zero!!

(actually, it should be Don 1, bee's 6, because I got stung 6 times... Or maybe it should be Don ALL, bee's 6, as I got 'em tonight!:D)

I went and got gas for the pick-up tonight, and put a gallon in a small gas container. Then I went to Home Depot and picked up an 8 foot piece of 1/2" PVC pipe and some funnels.

Got up to the place at about 9:30. Peeked at the hole for a 10-12 feet away (with the flashlight, LED modded Mag, if yer curious) to make sure I had the right location (I'd marked it with the weedeater the first day I thought I'd killed 'em...)

I'd also taken an 8 foot piece of rebar, some fireplace matches and some electrical tape for safe ignition, and also got the fire extinguiser out of the truck, just-in-case. Told my son (he's 8) to stay back by the deck, and if he heard buzzing, to run like hell.

Put the end of the PVC near the hole, placed the funnel and started to pour; listening carefully for the angry buzzing. Didn't hear anything, so I kept pouring. I poured 1/2 the container then paused for a minute and still didn't hear anything. Carried the gas back out and put it on the tailgate and got the Surefire A2 out. Carefully (I'd also put on a hooded sweatshirt and jeans, again, just-in-case); I sneaked up on the hole... the dang thing was closed over!! We'd had a rainstorm come through KC last night, so I was thinking that the water had washed some mud into the hole and plugged it.

I had a 2 foot piece of rebar in the truck as well. Got that and started (very, very carefully!!) poking at the hole, listening intently. Nothing, just mud. Started poking in a circle around the hole... About 6 inches from the hole, the rod dropped in to the ground like I'd stuck it in water! I pulled it out and listened for buzzing... still nothing. I started digging with the rod and got a big enough hole to see the nest! Still nothing, so I knew I'd pretty much gotten them all. But just to be certain (nuke 'em from orbit...) I got the gas can and doused the nest area thoroughly. I dug around at the nest and pulled some up with the bar and saw a couple of bee corpses (big smile here) My son and came over (again "If you hear buzzing, run like hell") and I pointed out that I think they're all gone. I'm thinking that the nest was about the size of 1/2 of a football.

We loaded up everything and headed home. My son was disappointed, as he wanted to see a fireball! :DI was ready for that, but relieved that I didn't have to. I called the lady on the way home and told her the good news. Told her that if she went to check tomorrow, to take the bug spray just-in-case. I'll be back up this weekend to mow, and I'm planning on taking a pitchfork and making sure...
 
I was camping a few years ago and got up one morning and needed to pee. I walked off into the woods and found a nice deadfall treetrunk to do my bidness on. About 3/4 empty I heard a loud buzzing and it felt like someone had punched me in the face. I got my pants zipped and started running for the trailer. They chased me about 30 yards and got me on my upper lip and the back of my left hand. The one on my upper lip hurt like CRAZY and I talked like Mushmouth for about 4 hours. I used to have a pretty laizzes-faire relationship with hornets and wasps, but now, it's basically genocide...:D
 
Mowing the lawn a couple of weeks ago, I paused to look down into a hole and asked my self, what could have made that hole? (it was somewhat larger than yellow jacket holes I have seen before). Mower running, me leaning over the hole - and they start to fly in and out of the hole. I was out of there in a jiffy.

At night I dumped a couple of shovels of dirt over the hole, but the next morning when I looked thay had already dug out. I tried drowning them (5 gallon bucket, dumped from up slope), to no avail. Then I finally got them by pouring some gasoline in the hole and dumping dirt over it (to trap them in). No need to light the gasonline, the fumes kill them.

That was the 5th nest I have found in the yard in the last 5 years. Two of them were found the hard way with multiple stings.
 
My story? You want to hear my story.....

Last october, in OH, we were playing paintball. All weekend there had been yellow jackets buzzing around our camp area,, not stinging,, just being a friggin nuisance. Never found the nest or hole.

We were finished for the weekend, packing our stuff, and I grabbed some sliced chicken, a piece of bread, and made a quickie foldover half-a-sammich. Standing there, talking to my friends, took another bite of sammich, and, yep, a yellow jacket had landed on the sammich! While it was in my hand!
I bit into it and it stung me on the side of my tongue!!!
Let me tell you this, boys: It was like Satan had injected liquid hell-fire hot flowing lava directly into my tongue. I spit the peice of sandwich and the stinging devil bug onto the ground and stomped the living Schett out of it!

The only way I can describe it, is, for you to imagine someone taking liquid pepper spray, putting it into a syringe, and injecting it into your tongue.
My tongue swelled (luckily my throat did not) and I did the mush-mouth talk for a few hours.

I've known for a long time to make sure a bee or wasp hasn't flown into a drink bottle or can, but now, I'm telling you, when outdoors, always examine your food before each bite. I am a believer!

It stung like hell fire and brimstone!!
I think I invented a few new cuss words that afternoon.

Moral of the story, Avoid placing stinging insects in your mouth.
 
Yup. The echo of one buzzin around inside a pop can is the only thing that saved me from drinking one onct.
 
All this talk reminds me of the fun we have every year when we camp with my wife's family on the Mokelumne River below Salt Springs Reservoir. Plenty of yellow jackets there, they are a constant pest whenever any kind of meat is out.

The best experience dates back a few decades. When I was about 8 or 9, I was in a brush border between our neighborhood and the next with my brother and a friend, and we noticed some wasps coming out of a hole in the ground. We came up with the bright idea to throw rocks at the hole. One of us finally hit it just right, and there was a solid stream of angry insects flying out of the hole. My brother and I were faster runners than our friend, and escaped unscathed. Our friend, on the other hand, received a number of stings.
 
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