I got stung by a yellow jacket to day. Fortunately the do not affect me except for the hurt after the sting. How many are affected by stings.

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I got hit a week ago and it made me ache all over for a few days.

honey bee sting = anaphylaxis
yellow jacket = swollen arm, leg, whatever.
bald face hornet = uncontrolled screaming, thrashing around, blindly running in circles!

The honeybees are almost gone around here. Yellowjackets feed on my figs but nest elsewhere thank goodness. Cornwallis called our town "a Hornets' Nest of Rebellion". My daughter found a nest in a tree in woods along the Saluda in Columbia a couple years ago but I haven't run across any in either Carolina since I was a teen.

I got hit today but for some reason it didn't effect me like it usually does.
Normally I have a pretty bad reaction.....not Epi-Pen worthy but bad enough.
I know one thing tough....that little sumbitch better hope I don't find out where he lives because I have a can of wasp killer with his name on it.

I am lucky wasp stings do affect me. They hurt for a little while and there is a red spot but that is it. The rest of my family need the EPI-Pen quickly.

Stings are a non issue other than the initial burn. Tick off those yellow jackets though and the will pursue one for a couple hundred yards. My approach not if I stir them up is to stand calmly, keep my eye on as many as possible, and smash them flat as soon as the touch down.

A bald faced hornet nailed me on my left index finger upper knuckle here in north Idaho five days ago. Immediately, though short lived, stung like a bastard then gone. Two days later my hand was swollen big time, red and itching everywhere. Took some meds and two days later all was good. First timer with one of those wicked things.

Early goose season, breasting out birds......yellow jackets buzz between fingers.

Icewater in my veins when they let me know they're there. Never stung cleaning game.

Reaction before (bounced off Jeep mirror- nailed me on belly) had me at ER.............supposed to have Epi at all times.
Benadryl in truck.......hunt close to civilization.

Swelled up on arm a couple yrs before the ER visit one. Bright red, flaming hot 2 hrs............then was OK. Weird. Nailed on archery course.

The ER one..............had hives for over a month........all over, high density too. Felt like death.............no sleep, no relief, plus feeling sick all the time. Pretty brutal.

Been stung twice since........felt crappy, minor hive event from one. Usually OK in 3 days.

Yea, I killed and pissed off a lot of Yellow Jackets wasps yesterday I found a couple big nests of them and sprayed them real good... they weren't happy.

A week ago my wife got stung by a bee just above the wrist. Her arm swelled from wrist to elbow and she itched up to her neck for a couple days. The swelling lasted 3 or 4 days.
2 days ago, I got stung on the elbow by something, I think it was a wasp but I swatted it so fast that it didn't inject any poison. It quit hurting in about 30 min and didn't swell a bit.

My worst was years ago when I got a wasp inside my motorcycle helmet. It stung me 3 times on the temple. If I'd been allergic that one would have been serious. Have you ever steered a bike at 60 with your knees while ripping off your helmet and screaming obscenities?

I hate getting stung, but no reaction other than pain.

We have lots of places for bee's nests where I work. Mainly wasps. I buy bee killer by the case and we kill them whenever we find a nest. A couple of weeks ago, my guys found a nest, but to busy to take care of it at that moment. About 5 minutes later, a customer got hit. He was a little pissed when he found out they knew about it, but apologies were accepted.

I worked at Va Tech the summer after graduating high school. Weedeating the outer campus. Golf course, barns, research blds etc. I held the record that summer for bee stings. No allergies to them, but one got me between the eyes that knocked me off my feet. Every kid should have a job like that starting off.

Wife got popped three times by one of the underground nests couple weeks ago. Had to fire-bomb the little bastids once the sun went down, then buried their azz. You never know about those underground nests till you stumble over one, then its too late.

Bad news for this kid. Lots of ice on the site and a broncho-dilator inhaler...almost-not-quite- anaphylaxis..

Got nailed three times a couple weeks ago by yellow jackets. Was walking back from my game camera and they where on my legs. Hurt a bit more than a bee sting, but the overall effect is the same (well except for the hives a bee sting gave my a month or so ago. Still waiting to hear from the allergist about that). Slight swelling and itching for a day or so.

Haven't figured out where exactly the nest (ground) is so I can bring down holy retribution on it.

Get some papaya extract tablets from the health food store. Crush one, make a paste with water, and slap it on a fresh bee, wasp, or scorpion sting. The papaya enzyme destroys the venom. You do have to get it in the first few minutes. The relief is immediate.

I was doing some work on the woodlot a couple of weeks ago and bent over face first right into a nest. Got whacked 8 times in the face, 3-4 on top of my head, and 2 times on my back. While I don't normally react, I swelled up like a ballon.

We have paper wasps, mud daubbers, and whatever the black ones are called.
Not so much yellow jackets.
Gotten a couple scorpion stings while sleeping this year. Those will leave a mark.