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I am laying down the law! No more discussions, PERIOD!
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No more discussions about yellow jackets, hornets and wasps. I was doing good things today, like mowing the yard and I GOT STUNG BY A YELLOW JACKET!
Right on the back of my left hand. I took a steroid but damm that thing hurts. I found the nest by the telephone pole, tonight I murder them with gasoline. Dang I hate those vermin.
Stop discussing them and maybe they will all just go away.
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Ok I will help you with that.
And fiery auto crashes
Some will die in hot pursuit
While sifting through my ashes
Some will fall in love with life
And drink it from a fountain
That is pouring like an avalanche
Coming down the mountain
Thanks Mr. P for letting Bruce outa the penalty box!
I've tried not thinking about them and they do not go away.
Even tried holding my breath for awhile when I seen them swarming close to me.
Got into a ground nest last year when I was using a backpack leaf blower. (yellow jackets)
They did not like me or that gasoline leaf blower. I was running, dancing and trying to get the backpack off my back.
I got stung several times. I'm Lucky I'm not allergic to their stings, YET.
How bout the Mongolian death wasp.? They have escaped here. Media says not to worry. Their sting is only marginally worse than our other native species, and of course we should we should be compassionate to species trying to survive in our broiling hot world that America has created
Glad your ok and understand your desire to never speak of them again
I am or have been up tonow things change as we all know
i am one of the lucky ones, bee stings of course they hurt . but the pain and swelling seldom last very long
The thought of having a allergic reaction is scary
with that said Now I will look like a beach ball next time i get stung for saying that
This morning the pain is almost gone, the redness and swelling is going down. The spot the vermin stung me is all black, looking like dead skin. I am not sure why they call it a "sting", it does not "sting" when I get stung, it hurts real bad for several days then itches like the dickens for a couple more days.
I think we need to change the language, the left does it all the time, and rather than calling it a sting call it a "megahurt" that new word being more accurate. A sting is what happens when you get popped by a rubber band. A megahurt is what wasps, bees, hornets and yellow jackets inflict upon us.
I feel fortunate I do not suffer the life threatening reactions some folks have.
I have been stung 5 times by yellow jackets in the past few days. That is more than I have been stung in the previous 30 years.
Last Wednesday evening, I was stung by a yellow jacket at church. It apparently lit on my shirt collar when I was walking in, and then went inside. I didn't know it was there until I felt the sting. I knew what that was, so I yanked my shirt off and dropped it on the floor. One of the other men found the critter and killed it. Even so, I checked my shirt over carefully before putting it back on.
I did not disrupt the service. This incident occurred before it began, and a bunch of us were standing around visiting.
If there had been any doubt as to whether I was packing at church, there is none now.
I had a wasp fly into the back of my neck and sting me and I have sat on a bumble bee... Sitting on the bumble bee was the worse.😳
"Independence Now, Independence Forever."
John Adams
I talk about bees all the time.....🤨
We now have two wild swarms on our place. In this hot weather we put out water in three bird baths around the place and make sure they are full all the time. This summer there has been a continuous stream of bees coming in, getting water and flying back to the trees where the hives are located. They are always welcome here. I just have to stay off the porch during the day..
I got stung inside the lower lip by a black wasp. Seen him coming straight at me just kinda like a slow Helicopter. I thought he was just going to go on by. It was like he was blind, hit me in the lip, stinger inside hooked on lower lip and me trying to spit him out. Finally got him out with hand, stomped him several times. was probably just a few seconds but seemed like long time. Went to house and immediately took couple Benadryl tablets, throat started swelling and feeling strange, breathing little difficult. Looked in mirror and my lower lip was looking like them Africans that have donut lower lip plates.
I would have been welcome in a MLK parade.
I tried to hide it from wife, when she seen it she pointed and laughed and laughed. I had to leave (go hide) before she took my Picture and posted such. Kinda felt like the Dentist had injected some green persimmon juice into my lip area.
Could have been serious without the Benadryl and if I was allergic to stings.
I'm probably one step shy of deathly allergic. Got stung about 30 times back in the 70s, all over my left hand and arm. Doc said next time, I might stop breathing. (My hand swelled up until my fingers touched at the tips. Kielbasa.)
I have learned to not swat at bees or their cousins. If they fly near or even land on me, I just freeze and wait them out. It has worked for decades.
I have been told I should carry an Epipen, but they are so damn expensive, and they expire quickly. Over several decades, I'd have spent tens of thousands of dollars on them - and never used one. I'll keep on risking it.
Benadryl is very effective for treating anaphylactic shock.
A man that will step aside for a bee, might as well walk- Woodrow F Call
I am adding the generic equivalent of the name brand to the shopping list. I was as nervous as a dog crapping a peach pit yesterday mowing the fields with the finish mower and the lawn with the zero turn. My eyes were on swivels looking for anything flying near the ground that might be a nest. I don't know if I am just overly sensitive to pain impulses from stings or am a big sissy but there have been few things in my life that hurt as bad as being stung, the pain and swelling lasts for days.
Bruce they used to make a benadryl liquid, it was clear and thick sorta like a thinned vaseline, I used to have a small bottle and if I got stung I would make a dash to the house and squirt a glob on the sting and take a pill also. It was the only thing that kept me from looking like the elephant man after I got stung and having to go to the emergency room for a steroid shot. not sure if they still sell it or not. After taking all the meds I take now for my heart and other things I don't seem to react as bad as I used to..........
A very effective treatment for bee stings is tobacco. Get the tobacco from about 1/2 of a cigarette and moisten it. Four or five drops of water. Put the moist tobacco right on the bee sting.
You will be astonished. Evidently the tobacco neutralizes the toxins in the sting because it will stop hurting in 30 seconds. I would imagine chewing tobacco would also work but I have not tried it.
No discussion here !!! 😉🙃
Yes, according to some of the buddies of my misspent youth, chawin' baccy works just fine. I never could get past the chawin' part, though.
Need to buy some tobacco just to have for the bee stings. Dont have any in the house since I quit smoking