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am a total f'ing idiot! (wasps)

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so i'm puttering around moving plants. have a big stone pedestal pot with one of those moss covered wire planter baskets full of ivy sitting on top of it. pick up the basket to move it, and i'm like - WTF?!?! a bunch of wasps come flying out from under it - and there's some weird looking 'thing' under there. and here's the idiot part - instead of setting it back down and resealing the opening, i put it on the ground and stare into the opening. soccer ball sized wasp nest and a swarm of biblical proportions is erupting from it. am almost immediately covered in them - like total horror movie covered. pandemonium ensued (screaming, running around, swatting, stomping, more screaming). those little fuckers are fucking ferocious!

anyway, i have 21 bites (2-3 inch welts each). and am pretty sure i will have epic nightmares tonight. :nchantr
 
When I was a kid we had one of those giant wooden spools for cable in our backyard. Bees had taken up residence in the center of one of them and one day my brother and I started chucking apples at it.
One of us dropped a fastball directly into the center hole, and I stood there transfixed as the hole got larger and larger and larger... it took me a couple seconds to realize that it was all of the bees coming out to get us. :laughing

They were bees not wasps so it wasn't as bad as your situation but man oh man I still remember the panic to this day.
 
The most satisfying way to deal with these ground hornets is with gasoline and a match.

But this is easier:

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Well at least you didn’t pick up the nest and give it to a kid to put in their bedroom like Jack Torrance.

Glad you made it through, yellow jackets are mean MF’ers.
 
I'm waiting for the write up when you discover a nest of Murder Hornets. Ahhh...good times

Mad
 
Oh nooo! Wasps are the worst. I hope you're not in too much discomfort.
 
Sucks, I would say not a Fidiot, but shock reactions do vary, I hope the wounds heal quickly.
 
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JESUS LB!!! :wtf

Rest easy friend and and watch out, where's there one there are more.
 
That would horrify me to no end. Bees and spiders I just absolutely do not like. If even one bee/wasp starts buzzing around me, I start trying to dodge it like I’m some kind of bullfighter. Couldn’t even imagine a whole swarm coming at me.
 
Ouch... that sucks!!!!!

Hope the night was not to bad and healing is quick.

I had evil thoughts of changing your screen ID to littlewaspbeast for a day :devil :laughing
 
Nightmare scenario.

Also have to agree that the reaction was hardly idiotic considering that is the first, and likely last time, that situation ever presents itself to you.

That many stings can be fatal to some!

Hoping for a quick recovery.
 
I usually hunt wasps with "Shureshot". It's an aerosol can that can shoot 8 to 10 feet, so it's good for those overhead nests that are on the ceiling of the patio, etc. Kills the bastards without a close approach. I have seen people burn the nests with flaming newspaper, but you have to get close, and you might start a fire.

Hope your pain goes away soon. I had 12 or so stings at a time, and I hate those little bastards.
 
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Had the same thing happen as a kid and spent a lot of time each summer after that killing those sob's. Had all sort of chaotic encounters with them. We're mortal enemies. I've even jumped out of a moving car as the driver and left the wife idling along by herself in the passenger seat. These days I use a garden hose to knock the nests down. And I know the obvious thought is that they'd just come right back, but it doesn't seem to make any difference whether you kill them or not. They seem to get the message either way.
 
so our pest guy came this morning. they're still swarming. i was walking him over to the site when he grabbed my arm and stopped me. he said they're not wasps - they're hornets, and told me to get back in the house while he deals with them.
 
As a child my dad took a bucket and scooped a wasp nest into it and then ran like hell. Then he came back with another bucket of boiling water and drowned them.

It shockingly worked and he was unscathed.
 
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