i tried killing a wasp with the 'Raid: Flying Insect killer' ....... needless to say, i ran around like the gay dude from modern family when the pigeon invaded his home
They will come out occasionally. I stepped on one once and ended up with the stinger still in my foot. As a kid I got stung so many times by evil things, I lost count. Worst was 5 times in a row by those red wasp bastards.
Flying insect killer is for flies, mosquitoes, etc. You need to get Wasp and Hornet killer Wasp and hornet killer works great. I always buy 2-3 cans when spring arrives.
I was trimming a bush the other day and didn't realize there was a wasp nest in there. They started swarming all around. They were trying to dive bomb me from what it looked like but I ran for it. Then, I caught site of the nest and it was pretty big. First one I've encountered inside a bush like that. They usually build their nests under the roof overhang. I've only been stung by bees...never a wasp. But, it was a close call. I would be more concerned about disturbing a killer bee's nest, though. If that had been a killer bee's nest in that bush, then that would have suck albeit I would have been in my pool. I think they circle and wait for you to come up for air, though. I was watching some show like "I'm Lucky to be Alive" or whatever...and this old couple disturbed one. The killer bees were all over them...including many down their throats, all in their hair, and just all over the place. They get in everywhere. It was nasty.
I was stung twice when I was a kid, same summer, about 12 years old. We lived in Hitchcock off highway 2004, surrounded by woods...i.e., snakes, wasps, critters in general. A couple years after the Summer of Stings, my mom must have been trying to get me to man up. There was a wasp nest underneath the board that runs chest-high, parallel to the ground aong the inside of a fence (the fence surrounding our A/C unit). She handed me a can of wasp killer and told me to go get the nest. Despite my having been stung twice before (yes, it hurts like a m.f.), and despite some of these same sorts of wasps dive-bombing me at the same house as I tried to wipe out a different nest using the exact same can of wasp killer, I was a kid and she was....er, my half-crazy mother, bossing me around. So I tentatively approached the nest. Wasps swarming it. Balls sweating. Depressed the button on the canister, only enough for a feeble "ttsssp" of a spray, before running like hell. Wasn't stung. Maybe didn't even hit the nest. I looked at the window to see my mom looking on, none too pleased. So I approached tentatively again, much like a normal human being might warily circle a big alligator that PROBABLY can't get to you because you've already run fifty yards. Again: "ttssssp". Run. So I was halfway around the house to the sliding glass door when my mom stalks up to me and grabs the can of wasp spray from my hand. "GIMME that." She walks past, going toward the nest. "Come here, pantywaist." Points the can at the nest and sprays as if to empty the entire can. You know that kind of luck that only mothers or crazy people might have? She must have hit the nest right when every wasp was on it. They all dropped dead to the ground. So, when I hear "wasp", I'm probably subliminally reminded of that emasculating moment when I was 15. I probably should have gone into therapy then.
I was stuck on the bone of my ankle by a yellow jacket last year. And then one of those big red ones got me on my finger 2 months later after it flew into/onto my neck and I swatted with my hand (unknowingly) to get whatever it was off the back of my neck.
A couple of summers ago, I got a sting on my hand when I was reaching into a bucket in my shed. I looked all over the place trying to find what got me, but didn't see a thing. I assumed it was a spider or something, and I was a bit concerned about it, but it didn't kill me. A week later, I got stung again and I swatted it to discover it was a red wasp. So, I look around again and find the nest hanging on the inside of the shed door. Every time I opened it, I was pissing them off.
I get stung all the time because of my job in pipeline integrity. They build their nests in our control cabinets or under valves and piping just out of sight and Im always gettiing into them. In my experience, the red wasp is the most aggressive and painful little SOB out there - one got me behind my ear this year, and it felt like it was on fire.
Was stung in the neck once during recess back in sixth grade. The school nurse put meat tenderizer on it. Did wonders for the pain.
As a kid, I got bitten or stung or SOMETHING by one of these creatures we called "horseflies" in Northeast Texas. I just wiki'd horseflies, and this one didn't look like that, so I'm guessing it was probably a yellowjacket or some other ******* wasp. I was swimming in my friend's above-ground pool when one alighted on my hand. I believe I just started screaming bloody murder, and that sonofabitch got me good. My friend's mom put some baking soda on the sting and gave me some benadryl or something. Hurt bad enough that I remember it pretty clearly 18 years later.
Horseflies always seem to stalk me when I get in a pool. Those things freaking HURT. And even after they bite you, they don't go away... they stick around looking for more. If a mosquito is a flying needle, a horsefly is a flying blender.
Not a wasp story, but my Grandmother was actually a victim of killer bees. Somewhere in south texas (brownsvill area I think) Anyway, she was getting a bit older, living on her own (to stubborn to move) and noticed a hornets nest in her shed out by her house. She went to spray the hornets nest and stepped on a killer bees nest (that was in the ground if I remember correctly) Anyway, got thousands of stings and the thing about killer bees is they will go to get into your throat and nostrils etc. She fought pretty hard but ended up dying from it all a few days after. It was about 15 years ago so I might be hazy on the details, but I just remember not believing it.
Africanized bees do not nest in the ground but yellowjackets do and they are quite aggressive. Maybe she disturbed a bee nest while spraying the hornet nest. Either way, sorry for your loss.
This right here happened to me a few days before i was headed to UT baseball camp back when I was a kid. I could barely fit my hand in my glove. The more you get stung by wasps...the less tolerant you become of them...i've been stung about 5 times.
