skavenbabe Posted May 20, 2005 Share Posted May 20, 2005 Ok, I got stung about an hour ago in my painting room, ON THE BOTTOM OF MY FOOT! This thing hurts like h-e-double toothpicks. Horrible headache, little nauseated, horrible creatuers, ugh. I deal with pain rather well (had 2 kids, natural child birth), but I've decided yellow jackets should be systematically wiped from this planet, or genetically altered to lose their stingers like bees and die! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
:0) Posted May 20, 2005 Share Posted May 20, 2005 PETA is the only reason yellow jackets are still around. Possibly how they breed so quickly, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintRigger Posted May 20, 2005 Share Posted May 20, 2005 I don't mind 'em. They don't fall under that "More than 6 legs and don't live under water" category that has earned my scorn. I haven't been stung in a while, but I don't have much of a reaction when I am stung, rather than minor annoyance. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skavenbabe Posted May 20, 2005 Author Share Posted May 20, 2005 I must be a some allergic. It still throbs and stings.. 3 hours after being stung. I still have a roaring headache too. I've been stung by bees before.. no biggy.. and I've been stung by other kinds of wasps. This made me sick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warlordgarou Posted May 21, 2005 Share Posted May 21, 2005 Won't say anything about yellow jackets, but I have been waging a battle against wasps this spring. So far, I have gone through five cans of wasp spray - it's not that my aim is so bad, it's that there are that many nests around the house. After I found a dozen or so nests that I missed last time, I called in the pros - and they're getting the entire exterior on Monday. A few stinging critters here and there don't bother me - but a dozen-odd nests right above the garage (and twice that around the rest of the house, easy), coupled with an infant son who loves to play outside, means that they have to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otter Posted May 21, 2005 Share Posted May 21, 2005 I must be a some allergic. It still throbs and stings.. 3 hours after being stung. I still have a roaring headache too. I've been stung by bees before.. no biggy.. and I've been stung by other kinds of wasps. This made me sick Allergies can be cumulative - I have a couple books about beekeeping, and one author had to give up after having a really bad reaction from a sting - same kind of bee as many many other stings, but all of a sudden his immune system had become super-sensitive. An over-the-counter anti-histimine like Benadryl may help. (Cue Dr. "Bones" McCoy voice) But darn it, Jim, I'm a Civil Engineer, not a Doctor! so take that for what its worth. I was at my local acute care center last Friday night for an...annoying reaction to an over-the-counter medication myself. I didn't think it was anything like life-threatening, but I wasn't going to be a sane person if I didn't do *something* about it. Hope it gets better quick, or sooner! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skavenbabe Posted May 21, 2005 Author Share Posted May 21, 2005 finally after 6 hours, the hurting has stopped. Just a dull throbbing now. I can actually put my shoe on, the swelling has gone down. I was getting worried, got me a Reapercon to get to in the mornin! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophet118 Posted May 21, 2005 Share Posted May 21, 2005 Won't say anything about yellow jackets, but I have been waging a battle against wasps this spring. So far, I have gone through five cans of wasp spray - it's not that my aim is so bad, it's that there are that many nests around the house. After I found a dozen or so nests that I missed last time, I called in the pros - and they're getting the entire exterior on Monday. A few stinging critters here and there don't bother me - but a dozen-odd nests right above the garage (and twice that around the rest of the house, easy), coupled with an infant son who loves to play outside, means that they have to go. ya know, i wouldnt mind if the wasps around my house were nesting... like when i lived in florida, at least i knew where not to go... but here in huntsville, all i have around my house are solitary wasps.... what a dumb term... theres like 10-20 a day... i hate em! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
:0) Posted May 21, 2005 Share Posted May 21, 2005 What's a yellow-jacket? Is it some kinda wasp? yellow jacket n. Any of several small wasps of the family Vespidae that have yellow and black markings and usually nest in the ground. Here's a pic: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maceswinger Posted May 21, 2005 Share Posted May 21, 2005 I have an allergie aginast all types of wasps and bees and the like. I leave bees, bumblebees and the like alone but have been waging a war on wasps for like 20 years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophet118 Posted May 21, 2005 Share Posted May 21, 2005 What's a yellow-jacket? Is it some kinda wasp? yellow jacket n. Any of several small wasps of the family Vespidae that have yellow and black markings and usually nest in the ground. Here's a pic: you missed one small detail... they are friggin MEAN! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warlordgarou Posted May 22, 2005 Share Posted May 22, 2005 ya know, i wouldnt mind if the wasps around my house were nesting... like when i lived in florida, at least i knew where not to go... but here in huntsville, all i have around my house are solitary wasps.... what a dumb term... theres like 10-20 a day... i hate em! Again, since the nesting is basically the primary entrance/exit and play area(s), I really think that they have to go. If they were nesting on the north side of the house (where I only go to mow and kill weeds), I wouldn't care so much - I'd spray this year to keep it under control, remove the nests come winter, and build bait traps next spring. But, they pose a clear and imminent threat to my infant son, and a possible one to my wife and I - therefore, they die. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benhamtroll Posted May 22, 2005 Share Posted May 22, 2005 As someone who had a serious allergy in my youth, and without having been stung in something like 20 years, would probably explode now, I have a natural aversion to all of this stinging things. Benadryl can work wonders, as can powdered meat tenderizer (I believe it helps to draw the venom out . . .) I used to have to carry epinephrin when I was a kid, but I never had to use it, thanks to these wonders of modern science. This reminds me of a story though . . . A couple years back some wasps had, unbeknownst to us, built a nest under the edge of my daughter's kiddy swing. She was too big for the swing, but loved to use it. She went out back to swing one day, while my wife and I were working in the house. About ten minutes after going out, we heard this screaming and crying. We look out the window to see our daughter surrounded by a swarm of wasps. In a panic, I started running toward the back door to get out, while my wife started running toward the open window to tell her to stop flailing. Well, we had not coordinated these actions, and we both had our heads down to run. My forehead connected with her right orbital at a high rate of speed, knowcking us both flat. I was fine, but we think that maybe I had cracked her skull (!). After clearing our heads, I managed to stagger outside and rescue our daughter who, incidentally, was not stung once. So, I hate bees, wasps, and yellowjackets. Ask me sometime about the mud-dauber wasp that built a on the side of the door frame to our back door. That one was FUN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prophet118 Posted May 22, 2005 Share Posted May 22, 2005 ya know, i wouldnt mind if the wasps around my house were nesting... like when i lived in florida, at least i knew where not to go... but here in huntsville, all i have around my house are solitary wasps.... what a dumb term... theres like 10-20 a day... i hate em! Again, since the nesting is basically the primary entrance/exit and play area(s), I really think that they have to go. If they were nesting on the north side of the house (where I only go to mow and kill weeds), I wouldn't care so much - I'd spray this year to keep it under control, remove the nests come winter, and build bait traps next spring. But, they pose a clear and imminent threat to my infant son, and a possible one to my wife and I - therefore, they die. i totally agree with you..lol, ive got wasps round my house... i hate em, and kill em on site Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
warlordgarou Posted May 22, 2005 Share Posted May 22, 2005 As someone who had a serious allergy in my youth, and without having been stung in something like 20 years, would probably explode now, I have a natural aversion to all of this stinging things. Benadryl can work wonders, as can powdered meat tenderizer (I believe it helps to draw the venom out . . .) I used to have to carry epinephrin when I was a kid, but I never had to use it, thanks to these wonders of modern science. I might be allergic, I might not. One of my sisters is lethally allergic to bee stings, so there exists a definite possiblilty. I do know, however, that I have a ridiculously high tolerance to Benedryl. An effective dose and a lethal dose are almost the same amount - taking a double dose does nothing on the occasions where I have had to take it for other things, but it dose make me a little sleepy. A triple dose reduces swelling slightly, and makes me a little drowsier. Even so, as I said, I'm not really worried about me - I'm worried about my son. If he got my high tolerance, and allergies, it could be very bad indeed. Good to hear that your daughter wasn't stung, BTW. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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