I goofed...

Well I went up to my hunting cabin with my grandpa since it might be the last time he goes up there. My brother and dad went too. Well we would always go around in the woods and there will be old, smaller, trees and stumps that are rotted out and we'll kick them over. Why? Because its friggin cool! Well sometimes they don't fall down, you think they're weak then you kick it and make an azz out of yourself real quick.

I saw one after I set up some shooting targets. I went over to it and pushed it a little bit to make sure it WOULD fall over. I said "hey dad"! then he looked, I went whoy yawh! then did a karotee move on it and knocked it down, then I was thinking about kicking it again. Next thing I knew I was running out of there getting stung by bee's Ah hell, there ended up being a paper wasp nest directly on the other side of where I kicked it. But they were all black basically, I don't know what they were I just got the hell outta there. I got stung four times once on the left wrist (top), right wrist (bottom), left ankle, and right side of my back. Ooops.

Those things are rutheless!!

I was spraying a nest once in an old camper and all of a sudden got stung a couple of times......the little buggers had another nest right behind me!!

Bill

sounds like you were lucky only 4 stings, couple years ago i raised the hood on my toy. 4x4 n seen bout 10 yellow jackets , i dropped the hood n stepped back a few feet, then bout 40 big a$$ red waspers came out of fender n comenced ta stingin the chit out of me i ran like hell but to no avail 14 stings , needless to say i gassed those bastards out the next day Erv.

hillbillyerv wrote:sounds like you were lucky only 4 stings, couple years ago i raised the hood on my toy. 4x4 n seen bout 10 yellow jackets , i dropped the hood n stepped back a few feet, then bout 40 big a$$ red waspers came out of fender n comenced ta stingin the chit out of me i ran like hell but to no avail 14 stings , needless to say i gassed those bastards out the next day Erv.

That'll fix em good!!

Bill

Those black ones with the white masks are F'n Brutal SOB's.......F'n things are about a inch long and mean as hell !!!

dfree383 wrote:Those black ones with the white masks are F'n Brutal SOB's.......F'n things are about a inch long and mean as hell !!!

My grandpa said the same thing. They were an inch long but no white head, I think there was a small blue stripe on them before the head. I'll google it and see what I can find.

Maybe this is what they were? They were more of a solid body unlike a wasp, but they weren't fat like a bumble bee.

The ones I've had a few run in's with had a white strip on their face like a mask.... Bad mofo's

we have the big ass hornet's.the kind that look like yellowjacket but are the size of your thumb! they sound loke humming birds when they fly by. the black ones your talken about are what we call hornet's,black body with a white stripe about midway of the body.

cool40 wrote:we have the big ass hornet's.the kind that look like yellowjacket but are the size of your thumb! they sound loke humming birds when they fly by. the black ones your talken about are what we call hornet's,black body with a white stripe about midway of the body.

Those big one's your talking about I think they are something other than wasps. A long time ago in 4th grade I learned about these things called secata killers, you know what sacata's are. Those bugs that are always making noise, but the sacata killers look like a wasp on a steroid overdose HUGE things, they will paralize the sacata's I'll see if I can get a picture, but I do know all the bugs down south are bigger. Maybe they are wasps though...

Here, I was spelling it wrong. Its spelled cicada killer.
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Damn we got skeeters bigger an nat. Seriuosly if I saw one of those I'd faint.

ouch! I was getting rid of a small wasp nest with some WD-40 and a torch once. Sadly, I did not notice the much larger nest a few feet away...