re: Got stung by a red velvet ant today

Same happened to my brother when he was around 10. Saw the pretty “ant” and picked up a small piece of trash on the ground and got the velvet ant to crawl on it to pick it up. Took about 0.2 seconds for the ant to zoom across the 3 inch piece of paper and sting his finger.

Yellow jackets aren’t too bad individually. I’ve had some red wasp stings that hurt like a mofo - one in the knee that made the joint swell up and hurt for a couple days. Got hit by 7 yellow jackets on the throat, neck, back a couple years ago, and didn’t even realize it was stings til the 3rd or 4th hit…and the pain subsided pretty fast. I’ll take 3-4 yellow jacket stings over 1 red wasp sting.