hornets are mean
Got stung by 2 this morning coming down Bluff Mtn. I guess I walked into a nest, either way my leg is absolutely killing me still.
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They don't like noise. Something as small as a walking stick hitting a rock sharply can set them off.
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sorry to hear that but as a pest professional - they were making you aware of them... I rarely get stung as my senses are keen to insects. Going forward - carry the Walmart sting kill in a pen, (camping area) as you are suffering right now, after a while your body will adjust and wont be so bad in the future.
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My buddy got stung on the leg by 4 hornets on our first day out hiking the AT two weeks ago. His stings were still visibly red three days later.
The nest was under deadfall, partially covered and flat,which didn't look much like anything . Nasty bad azz bees they are.
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We had a big football sized nest of them in a backyard tree. They were big, round, striped. The pest guy that came to get rid of it said that they were a particularly aggressive type that would come after people just for walking past the nest, even at a distance, if they were flying along that same path. Last year had what we thought were wasps nesting under the siding of the house. When 100's of them started pouring out (one big birthday!) I got a guy here to get rid of them. He said that though they were small like a wasp they were in fact another kind of hornet and also quite aggressive. I'm not interested in keeping them around for any reason whatsover, I don't care how "natural" they are.
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Hornets are under
wet spots love a dark area under a pile of wood.
Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them.
Woo
That was almost HaikuOriginally Posted by Wise Old Owl
I agree that hornets suck!
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When I was a youngster we had a huge backyard with all kinds of fruit trees, and hornets loved to nest in the ground back there. One day I made the mistake of running over the nest with the lawnmower.
Got swarmed and stung over 30 times. Holy shiat that was a painful day. I figured after that I'd get bestowed with some sort of super-hero super powers, but alas, they were not radioactive or anything like that, so the closest thing to a superpower that I have is the ability to stick cans to my head...
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Dogs are excellent judges of character, this fact goes a long way toward explaining why some people don't like being around them.
Woo
I walk at home each night. Two miles in tonight and I got stung on my left calf by a big fat yellow bas&*%d. I'm soaking it in alcohol (from inside to outside)
Traveller
Long ago I sawed down a tree with a nest in it. The saw sat there going putt-putt forever after I fled in pain. I did not it, not one little bit. Retrieved the saw in the morning when it was cool and they were inactive.
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heres a funny story for you.i have an employee that i have a grumpy old man relationship with.you always have to watch him we go back and forth alot .the stuff weve done has been pretty brutal.we were taking down a huge hollow maple one day,when i cut right through a bee hive with a chainsaw,a big one ,bees were all over me ,and of course he was cackling like a fool enjoying every bit of it.i did the only thing i could think of,i ran right to him and squated down as low as i could.it couldnt have worked better they started stinging the dung out of him and he ran taking a cloud of peeved off bees with him .i never got stung again ,but he was a quarter mile down the road cursing.he must have been talking about a trip to florida all i heard was something about the sun and the beach.
his payback for that was to take my carelessly left unlocked phone and wrote a text begging all to accept my choice of coming out of the closet and how id been gay for years and so on.i dont care if your gay or not ,but im not. my mom was not impressed when he sent it to all my contacts
put mud on it if your stung. as the mud dries it will pull the stinger
Right Hairbear. ZZZZZ Wasps do not lose their stingers. Bees lose their stingers.
Hairbear, hilarious. A surveyor told me to carry a small vial of urine. If stung, rub some of your own urine on the site. He claimed it would take the pain away. Probably impossible to obtain a fresh urine sample after getting stung...
Of all of the stingers, yellow jackets bother me the most.
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Must be a UGA Bulldog fan. GO JACKETS!
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A few years back we were nobo on the Noland Creek trail heading up towards clingmans dome. I was with another friend from UPS, and two of his friends that I had just met. The two in front were moving on pretty fast after a creek crossing, and they walked over a yellow jacket nest. Neither one of them even knew it as they walked past it, but we were 50yds behind them and walked smack into them. They were in my shirt, socks, shorts-everywhere. I was running screaming through the woods slapping myself and generally acting the fool cause I was getting stung about 12 places at all the same time. About that time I got pissed and started with the biggest cussing fits you've ever heard in the middle of the woods. Turns out that the new friends were preachers. Oops...
Glad to see you understand the proper use of medication.
If the bees were in thier pants they'd probably be sayin things they'd regret also.
FYI...I hold the world record for the 100 yd dash carrying a running chain saw...damn honey bees!
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