I HATE yellow jackets

[lurky]

I have a suggestion that has worked for me for 40 yrs. If you even think there is a remote possibility that a bee is nearby.... You begin to run and scream "$*@#bee*@#$" while flailing your arms as much as possible. If you have a pony tail, swing your head a lot too. This really works and if its ever caught on video you might win FHV

(Some of you might be familiar with this method)

 

[Henrietta23]

Hate them too. I was stung for the first time three summers ago. I was walking up the back steps and a yellow jacket got me on the back of my calf. I haven't felt pain like that very often. Then it got itchy and then it turned to cellulitis. I ended up with a scar! The next summer while walking through the playground at my son's school I got stung between two toes by a honey bee that got stuck inside my Croc. That wasn't as awful BUT the spot where the yellow jacket had gotten me the year before swelled up again! Weird! And no, I'm not allergic! Just sensitive.
My son got stung 4 times a few weeks ago by bald faced hornets, which are related to yellow jackets. We couldn't find the nest. A week later one got him on the face. Poor kid, the next day his face was all swollen. That time we found their nest in the rhododendron bush he had been standing near. DH sprayed it then a few days later we took it apart. We found the queen, eggs, larvae and got to see the different colors of wood they used to build the paper nest. They had chewed on our garage and shed for sure.

 

[Rhett&SarahsMom]

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Yup. I made my dh pull over into a busy parking lot a few weeks ago when a hornet got into the car while we were driving down the road. I jumped out screaming and shuddering and would not get back in until I was sure the thing was gone.

I keep a fresh can handy on my deck at all times when the weather warms up. I think they have figured it out. Havent had a nest/hive built on the house since the first summer I walked around every other night spraying the buggers.
Now, the ground wasps. I know i have a next somewhere in the back yard. A few years ago the yard was unusable because there were so many. It isnt as bad this year. Which is good since we have the girls now. But the misquotes. I can handle pain more than itch. And they are nasty and abundant. Far worse than the flies now.

 

[CityGirlintheCountry]

How the heck do you FIND the ground nests? I've been stung three times this summer. I already anhilated a nest in the fence. There's something in the garden though. There are dozens of the little suckers flying around. I've abandoned the garden to them as I am at the epi pen stage of stingdom.
The ones I see in the garden are black with yellow lines on them. Are those yellow jackets? I also have tons of dirt dauber nests on the house. Arggg!!!

 

[Jolyn]

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Good question. I was wondering the same thing.

Two mornings ago i looked out our back window and it looked like a horror movie. Literally there were hundreds of bees buzzing low to the ground all over the back yard. I cringe just thinking of it. EWwwwwwwwwwwww...

We got some of those hanging yellow traps and they are half full already!!!!

 

[Henrietta23]

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The only way we've found them here is by chance. Either DH happens to observe them going in to the hole or he runs the lawn mower over it and finds it the hard way.

 

[Ugly Cowboy]

I aint scared of nothin but bees. I hate bees more than anything on the planet. If ya wanna see a grown man runnin and screamin like a little girl, you show me a nest of bees!

I've been stung by just about every kind in the lower 48 I swear, and I aint allergic, but they chase after me, and I dont like bein chased by junk I know's out to get me LOL! I found a wasp nest up in the corner of the barn the other day, and I took off runnin 90 or nothin out of the barn and up to the house. My boss was watchin and he still aint let me forget about that one.

 

[Jolyn]

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Oh my gosh that made me crack up!!! I love it when a big man screams like a little girl. I am a AFV fan because of that.

Oh and can i just say there's no such thing as a ugly cowboy!!

 

[sundance]

I keep a package of chewing tobacco on top of the fridge, and first time visitors at our house look at me sorta funny, at least until I explain that I am allergy to stings of any kind, I don't chew the stuff, then I just get a big laugh, If you use gasoline on their nests, PLEASE BE CAREFUL. DH was pouring some gas in the carb of our truck, he has done that for 40 years and it backfired, and burned him over 38% of his body, thought we were gonna lose him since it had been just a year since he had his heart bypass, now I am scared silly of anyone pouring gas on something and lighting it.

marrie

 

[Pupsnpullets]

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Yes, I heard that, too. I've heard their sting is particularly good for arthritis sufferers. OTOH, not all of us have depleted immune systems or arthritis, so, in that case apparently tying a BOUNTY FABRIC SOFTENER sheet to your belt loop or somewhere else on your body is a deterent to yellow jackets. Worth a try.