Ground hornets suck

Side note, How's the wife doing.

She’s good….it’s been 8 years since her surgery. Can’t believe you remember that.

Other than some short term memory loss she hasn’t had any issues .

I have several big ones that are swollen. Got hit last year while disking and my left eye swole shut for several hours.

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 .

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

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….

Is this what yall call a ground hornet? LINK We call it a cicada killer. Yeah, they're bad, but I've never run across a nest of them. Just this week, though, I've had two of them fly to the front porch lights way after dark. Those big European hornets look similar to me. LINK

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!!

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What are yall calling a "ground hornet"? Yellowjackets?

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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.