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Ground hornets suck
Posted on 10/5/21 at 10:21 am
Posted on 10/5/21 at 10:21 am
I was out clearing along our front pond this morning and must’ve disturbed a big nest. They were everywhere. I backed up, threw the dozer in neutral and bailed off. They were all over me all the way to the house. My wife counted 12 in my shirt. I know where they are and will get revenge very soon. End of rant
This post was edited on 10/5/21 at 10:33 am
Posted on 10/5/21 at 10:41 am to pdubya76
Side note, How's the wife doing.
Posted on 10/5/21 at 11:00 am to hogdaddy
She’s good….it’s been 8 years since her surgery. Can’t believe you remember that.
Posted on 10/5/21 at 11:15 am to hogdaddy
Other than some short term memory loss she hasn’t had any issues .
Posted on 10/5/21 at 11:30 am to pdubya76
They sting like a MFer too. I had one sting me so deep and hard once, I couldn't get the stinger out and it got infected real bad. The scar looks like it's from a bullet hole.
Posted on 10/5/21 at 11:34 am to auggie
I have several big ones that are swollen. Got hit last year while disking and my left eye swole shut for several hours.
Posted on 10/5/21 at 12:03 pm to pdubya76
Cabs for the win...
I was bush hogging a couple of weeks ago and apparently ran over a nest. Had them hitting my cab glass.
I sat there watching in my a/c cab listening to the radio. It was wonderful.
I was bush hogging a couple of weeks ago and apparently ran over a nest. Had them hitting my cab glass.
I sat there watching in my a/c cab listening to the radio. It was wonderful.
Posted on 10/5/21 at 12:19 pm to bbvdd
One of these days I’ll have a cab. I’m getting a beekeepers headnet/hat going forward for work in the woods . I think these were in a rotten pine stump . I wasn’t even pushing it out just drove over it .
This post was edited on 10/5/21 at 12:20 pm
Posted on 10/5/21 at 12:25 pm to pdubya76
glad you're OK baw.... my neighbor was weed-eatin' last spring and disturbed a ground hornet nest in his garden. Tried to drop and roll and was stung over 50 times. He went into anaphylaxis shock and had to be taken via ambulance to the hospital. Dr. said if his wife wasn't home he could have possibly died. Next day Orkin came out and sprayed pesticide in the nest to kill the GH's
Posted on 10/5/21 at 3:56 pm to pdubya76
What are yall calling a "ground hornet"? Yellowjackets?
Posted on 10/5/21 at 4:00 pm to BFIV
They are terrible, got into some blood trailing a deer. Didn’t know I could still run that fast, but had some incentive….. got my revenge with some gasoline when I recovered….
Posted on 10/5/21 at 4:04 pm to pdubya76
i will say some white bald face ground hornets stung me worse than any paperwasp or yellow jacket. almost like i got shocked.
Posted on 10/5/21 at 4:20 pm to CamdenTiger
Posted on 10/5/21 at 4:44 pm to BFIV
quote:
What are yall calling a "ground hornet"? Yellowjackets?
Oh, no. Imagine all the hate a half inch long yellow jacket has. Now make it an inch and a half or two inches long and scale the hate accordingly.
Posted on 10/5/21 at 9:34 pm to pdubya76
Worked at a hunting farm here in SELA through high school summers and college breaks. My dad and I were clearing land on dozers and I hit a nest. D8 cat with expansion metal windows because the glass had already been knocked out from clearing. Reversed as fast as it could go and jumped off while it was moving. Ran about 1/2 mile and got in my dads truck, stripped, and they were still stinging me. I think we counted 38 visible stings. Was laid up for two days in pain. Old cajun guys that lived and farmed cane there called them Bourdons. They were tiny black ground bees or hornets that would go apeshite on a tractor. I Hit them once with a cabbed tractor bushogging and they actually seemed to try and break through the glass to get me.
Those old men swore if you try to jump in a canal they will hover and sting you when you popped up, until you didn’t pop up… frick them little worthless black arseholes.
ETA: We went back a few days later, poured diesel and gas down the hole we saw them coming in and out of, then threw a torch and killed them with fire!!
Those old men swore if you try to jump in a canal they will hover and sting you when you popped up, until you didn’t pop up… frick them little worthless black arseholes.
ETA: We went back a few days later, poured diesel and gas down the hole we saw them coming in and out of, then threw a torch and killed them with fire!!
This post was edited on 10/5/21 at 9:41 pm
Posted on 10/5/21 at 10:00 pm to CootDisCootDat
That sounds very similar to what happened to me today. They just keep coming and it’s kind of a helpless feeling being on something that will only do 2-3 mph . They stayed on me from the woods to the house and stung me the whole time. Probably 150-200 yards of me getting out of dodge.
Posted on 10/6/21 at 4:00 am to BFIV
quote:Yes, that's what is going on. Some false stuff included, as usual. Our true hornets are not ground nesters. Cicada killers don't nest together, and I know no one who has ever been stung by them or even the bald faced.
What are yall calling a "ground hornet"? Yellowjackets?
Posted on 10/6/21 at 5:04 am to AlxTgr
Got hit this Summer. I sprinted inside and when I got in the house and closed the door I had 6 of them still on me stinging.
Wait until right before dark. They don’t want to leave the nest in the dark. Get a water bottle with a narrow neck and fill will gasoline and turn it upside in the hole.
Wait at least 15 minutes before lighting because I think the gas does more damage to the back of the nest than the fire.
Wait until right before dark. They don’t want to leave the nest in the dark. Get a water bottle with a narrow neck and fill will gasoline and turn it upside in the hole.
Wait at least 15 minutes before lighting because I think the gas does more damage to the back of the nest than the fire.
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