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re: OT badazz baws: what is the most painful insect sting you've experienced?
Posted on 8/2/21 at 11:41 am to SDVTiger
Posted on 8/2/21 at 11:41 am to SDVTiger
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White face hornet was an awful experience
On this list is one that regularly gets mistaken for a bald-faced hornet, the four-toothed mason wasp. I tell people all the time not to kill them. They catch a whole lot of bugs and worms that are pests, and you just about couldn't make them sting you if you tried.
They're solitary nesters in holes in wood and such. Their sting paralyzes the worm or bug and they take it to one of their nests and stash it. When their eggs hatch, the larvae eat the bugs alive. Nature sho be cruel sometimes.
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Posted on 8/2/21 at 11:42 am to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
Hit my golf ball into the woods. I reached down to pick it up and a Puss Caterpillar bit me. My are swole up, I threw up, and then passed out. I haven't golfed since.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 11:44 am to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
To this day I have a phobia of paper wasp.........when I was 7 years old I climbed on the A frame support bar of a swing set, put my hand in the end of the top swing support bar and I will never forget what a paper wasp nest feels like, 20 or so paper wasp prickly legs and 20 or so stings on my hand, fingers, arms and neck and face!! I keep wasp spray on my patio to kill those bastards any time I see one!
Posted on 8/2/21 at 11:45 am to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
Brown Recluse spider put me in the hospital for 3 days and made be feel like shite for two weeks. Luckily I was bitten on the inside of my thumb were there is a lot of callus. Still my thumb blew up like a balloon and I had to go under for surgery to get it cleaned out. I'm fortunate no tendons were necrotized by the spider venom so I have full use of my thumb after surgery and healing.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 11:46 am to GumboPot
Reading these posts makes me never want to go outside again.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 11:48 am to Shanegolang
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I climbed on the A frame support bar of a swing set
I did the same - put my hand on the nest - one them stung me through my fingernail. Hurt like hell and for a long time.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 11:49 am to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
Surprised the Asian giant hornet is so low
Posted on 8/2/21 at 11:51 am to GumboPot
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Brown Recluse spider
Terrifies me to the point of paranoia. If I haven't worn a pair of shoes in a while I start by taking them outside and giving the some good whacks. Then I look in them with a flashlight to make sure. Every blanket that is put up for the Winter gets shaken vigorously, and I'm never the first to use a dark colored one. I don't stick my bare hands in places where they or a Black Widow could be. I wear gloves and use a stick or something to move stuff around first.
I've been called both crazy and a pussy. I'm fine with that.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 11:52 am to High C
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From birth? Did your parents not let you play outside?
Just lucky I guess. Before the wasp, I have been stung by bees and jellyfish, bit by horseflies, couple of spider bites.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 11:52 am to steve123
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Reading these posts makes me never want to go outside again.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 11:56 am to MorbidTheClown
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when you hit one of those in ground nests mowing the grass. they will make you wish you had not.
I once parked a 3 wheeler on top of the hole into a yellow jacket ground nest. 15 minutes later when the tire moved off of the hole, my dad, my friend, and I got annihilated. My uncle came back to see our 3 wheelers running with no one on them, followed by a trail of clothes, then the 3 of us standing at the bottom of a hill in underwear covered in red welts
Posted on 8/2/21 at 12:00 pm to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
Went to hit a golf ball out of an overgrown ditch and my downswing must've hit a yellow jacket nest because I got nailed about 17 times before I could get out of the ditch. That shirt hurt like hell. Finished the round but felt sick for several hours after getting stung.
I had no idea the red paper wasps are as painful as this chart says. They're pretty docile, thankfully, because we definitely have plenty of them in our yard but I've never gotten stung.
I had no idea the red paper wasps are as painful as this chart says. They're pretty docile, thankfully, because we definitely have plenty of them in our yard but I've never gotten stung.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 12:01 pm to jaytothen
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Why the hell did you let it live after the first sting?
First sting, I was grabbing a cage near a chicken coupe. I didn't see the bastard and I inadvertently grabbed the wasp as well as the handle so it stung me on my finger and flew off before I knew what happened.
Second sting, , not five minutes after the first sting. I locate the wasp perched on the eve of the chicken coupe. I see the SOB lookin at me, almost waiting for me to come within a certain radius for it to strike. I'm looking for something to kill this thing but I got too close, it flies directly at me really fast, and stings me on the arm. This is when I learned the hit really fast.
At this point, I'm say screw this and leave.
Third sting, a few hours later. I'm at the garden looking to pick some peppers and check on the tomatoes and I see a wasp. I figure this can't be the same wasp because I'm at least 200 yards from the coupe. But, sure enough, that fricker sees me, makes beeline and stings my other arm.
Next day, I wear long sleeves, jeans, a leather gloves and eradicate any wasp or nest that I come across.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 12:04 pm to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
Bumblebee stings are no fun. Neither are yellow jackets.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 12:04 pm to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
Red paper wasp got me right on my ribs while I was weed eating around my fence line last summer.
I was so shocked I dropped the trimmer, yelled, and ran across the yard
Little bastard hurt! Now I carry a can of raid on my lawn mower, so I inspect the fence line while I mow. frick those little shits.
I was so shocked I dropped the trimmer, yelled, and ran across the yard
Little bastard hurt! Now I carry a can of raid on my lawn mower, so I inspect the fence line while I mow. frick those little shits.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 12:06 pm to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
Yellow jacket.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 12:07 pm to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
When I was 16 I mowed over a yellowjacket nest and got stung 37 times, it was the most pain I've ever felt by far. I sprinted out of my back yard and about 200 yards down the street as fast as I could, but they still got all in my shorts and shirt and stung me EVERYWHERE. Nowhere was safe from those little bastards.
With that many stings the pain lasted a long time and felt like being stabbed by large needles all over my body for the rest of the day. I still have mental and physical scars from that experience
I'd rather break my ribs for a 3rd time and deal with that pain for a couple months than the pain I experienced for those few days.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 12:08 pm to HoustonGumbeauxGuy
When I was in the army, around 2000, one summer we were in Fort Gordon, GA. I got the task to be the commander’s bitch for two weeks and drove her and Top around in the Humvee.
One day, one of the platoons is on a road march. She wanted us to set up an ambush. So she sets up like a broke down vehicle while I go into the wood line to ambush them.
I laid my poncho on the ground in a really good spot and had a bunch of blanks. About thirty seconds later, I feel a bite, then another. I rolled over and bees were buzzing all over me. I’d laid in a hive or something. I came out of the woods swinging my poncho around and yanking my clothes off just as the platoon was coming down the road. I was stung about 10 times. Plus I sliced my hand open while wriggling around.
The ambush worked though. The platoon thought I was some kind of act and completely ignored the CO behind the hummer.
One day, one of the platoons is on a road march. She wanted us to set up an ambush. So she sets up like a broke down vehicle while I go into the wood line to ambush them.
I laid my poncho on the ground in a really good spot and had a bunch of blanks. About thirty seconds later, I feel a bite, then another. I rolled over and bees were buzzing all over me. I’d laid in a hive or something. I came out of the woods swinging my poncho around and yanking my clothes off just as the platoon was coming down the road. I was stung about 10 times. Plus I sliced my hand open while wriggling around.
The ambush worked though. The platoon thought I was some kind of act and completely ignored the CO behind the hummer.
Posted on 8/2/21 at 12:08 pm to High C
When I was growing up, I caught 2 of these things and put them together in a plastic bag.
They fought and stung each other over and over again, until one finally died.
After the one died, the other one started stinging it’s own face and killed itself.
I never thought about messing with those again after that.
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They fought and stung each other over and over again, until one finally died.
After the one died, the other one started stinging it’s own face and killed itself.
I never thought about messing with those again after that.
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quote:/ Red Velvet Ants(what I called them)
Cow ant
This post was edited on 8/2/21 at 12:10 pm
Posted on 8/2/21 at 12:09 pm to Splackavellie
Stepped on a velvet ant (we called them cow killers growing up) barefooted in the back yard. I saw him just as I was about to put my foot down but couldn’t stop in time. That fricker hurt for a good hour and felt like I was walking on a lego for about a day.
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