Wednesday Worsts...bites or stings

[CDGator]

 

[gardnerwebbgator]

Hornet or yellow jacket, easily.

 

[Back Alley Gator]

The pain from a wasp/insect sting generally fades after a day or so. True hell is getting into a bunch of chiggers. Especially your feet, ankles, legs. That infernal itching lasts for a week or more. And almost nothing helps. Only thing that comes close is extremely hot water...as hot as you can stand and then a few degrees hotter. Replace the itch with a near burn and let your endorphins take care of the rest.

 

[CDGator]

I wrapped my hand around a spikey caterpillar similar to this one when I was pulling down a vine years ago. Felt like fiberglass on fire. Don't do that.

 

[CDGator]

The pain from a wasp/insect sting generally fades after a day or so. True hell is getting into a bunch of chiggers. Especially your feet, ankles, legs. That infernal itching lasts for a week or more. And almost nothing helps. Only thing that comes close is extremely hot water...as hot as you can stand and then a few degrees hotter. Replace the itch with a near burn and let your endorphins take care of the rest.

good one, similar to the itch of poison ivy.

 

[MJMGator]

 

[G8trwood]

several decades ago, I backed a tractor into a yellow jacket nest while clearing a lot.

Ouch x 32

 

[B52G8rAC]

There is nothing like a jellyfish sting. I learned to throw a castnet when I was five. The net was made up with three spread points to cast, two hands and one other. Some put a lead over the shoulder but when I learned to throw my dad used and taught the lead in the your mouth technique. Kept you from getting hit in the head with a lead. Anyway, if you threw over a jelly fish and didn't notice, the stingers went right on your tongue. Causing your father to laugh tell you to be more careful. And we still had fish to catch.

 

[CDGator]

Fire coral

 

[cover2]

Hornet as @gardnerwebbgator said was the worst insect bite I recall. Me and a couple of friends threw rocks at a giant nest when I was young. We took off running but not fast enough. One got me in the side and I thought somebody had shot me with a .22. Broke me from that dumb stunt. Second to a hornet would be a guinea wasp.

 

[Treebeard]

My line of work, running over or stepping near/in a ground yellow jacket nest is an occupational hazard. I have been very very fortunate not to have been stung more times than I have on those occasions. Had to wait quite some time to move an open cab dozer once!

 

[soflagator]

I used to surf Flagler pier and StAug a lot as a kid and there were times in late Spring when it was so full of these things they were just all around you stinging you every few minutes. One time, a smaller one somehow drifted up the front of my board shorts. Not the best.

 

[Gatordiddy]

Was this posted in another thread somewhere?
If not …. Wow, watch this

 

[Double Gator Dad]

Hornet as @gardnerwebbgator said was the worst insect bite I recall. Me and a couple of friends threw rocks at a giant nest when I was young. We took off running but not fast enough. One got me in the side and I thought somebody had shot me with a .22. Broke me from that dumb stunt. Second to a hornet would be a guinea wasp.

Wasps continue to be my primary nemesis.
Over the years I’ve destroyed so many nests that I feel like there’s a wanted poster with my name on it hanging in the wasp post office.
Each time I get stung, the swelling gets worse to the point where I may have a real problem in the future.
Individually a wasp sting is not that bad but for me the cumulative effects are serious.

 

[soflagator]

Was this posted in another thread somewhere?
If not …. Wow, watch this

“Oh…yeah..hi, listen, about that. I actually already did it last Wednesday. Yep, done. The old guy said I’m a man and everything. Yeah, so you know, there’s no need, we’re good. What if we do like just a party instead? I mean who doesn’t like ice cream cake, am I right. Maybe a DJ.”

 

[cover2]

Wasps continue to be my primary nemesis.
Over the years I’ve destroyed so many nests that I feel like there’s a wanted poster with my name on it hanging in the wasp post office.
Each time I get stung, the swelling gets worse to the point where I may have a real problem in the future.
Individually a wasp sting is not that bad but for me the cumulative effects are serious.

Hope you keep an epipen nearby.

 

[Spurffelbow833]

Wasp followed me in one day about a month ago. Got tired of trying to kill her. She could hardly fly, so I figured she'd crawl off and starve somewhere. I learned where the hard way when I slipped into my shoes that evening. My whole foot felt like it was on fire. Stuck it in an ice water bath for a few minutes and went to work. Really took the sting out of being somewhere I didn't want to be.

 

[Altitude Gator]

Out here it is the western yellow jackets. They are prolific and don't mind stinging you just for fun.

Was working in the back yard of my old home one day with the boys (very young) playing nearby. I bumped into some landscape timbers (old railroad ties) and out they came. I got about 20 stings and both boys got about 5 or 6 each.

Now I invest in traps and that spray that goes 30 feet in a stream!

 

[Nalt]

My line of work, running over or stepping near/in a ground yellow jacket nest is an occupational hazard. I have been very very fortunate not to have been stung more times than I have on those occasions. Had to wait quite some time to move an open cab dozer once!

Yellow jackets are bad. The vibration of that dozer tends to stir them up and make them even angrier too. The key is to find the hole and mark it with a rock, stick or something and walk away for a few hours. After it gets dark, you can easily and safely approach the nest and use whatever your preference to kill the colony. You will probably still get stung in the process but not as much as if you just try and kill it immediately after finding the entrance hole....

 

[Back Alley Gator]

I'd have just burned the whole barn down and moved.