Yellowjackets are underrated

I’m bummed they don’t run the triple option anymore.

Mowing the yard and running over an underground yellowjacket nest is one of life's most miserable events.

Knock on wood, seen it but never felt it. Guy on the tractor, on the other hand...

Run over a nest of them while driving a tractor in the sweltering hot of summer. They will make you leave the tractor while it's still moving forward.

Ran over one last summer got tagged about 3 times before I knew what happened, ran to opposite end of the yard and those sumbitches still got me 2 more times.

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Run over a nest of them while driving a tractor in the sweltering hot of summer. They will make you leave the tractor while it's still moving forward.

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Once left mine while in gear, still mowing, rendezvoused back with my tractor 10-20 seconds later further from the nest. Only got hit 2 or 3 times, but they were everywhere, almost instantaneously.

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Yellowjackets are underrated

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They're the spawn of Satan. I'm convinced man created cab equipment not for the elements, but for the yellowjackets.

They're 2nd only to bumblebees. The definition of, "nightmare fuel hellscape" is running over a bumblebee nest in the ground and having them tear your arse up. Think carpenter bees, but with a stinger, living in the ground by the hundreds, though not as easily agitated as a yellowjacket.

They're like a quiet, dignified, former heavyweight boxer: they're not as easily pissed off as the loudmouth (i.e., the yellowjacket), but when you push him over the edge, you will regret it.

Ground nesting stinging insects is a sore subject for me, I digress.

Are hornets the same thing? What about those Japanese hornets?

I was out with mom when I was a kid and she was watering flowers. She put the hose down and the water found a yellow jacket hole to their nest. We all got stung running all over the place.

Even the poor cat had a stinger in its nose.

I hate when they block traffic.