Got stung by a yellowjacket today! First time in decades

For The Yellow Jacket. His sacrifice against tyranny will not be forgotten.

Right on! His memory will live on in his brave brethren.

I got stung on the lips once, I think God sent it cause I was kissing a girl I should not have been kissing!

lol

hey they are nasty and aggressive, protecting their birdfeeder with the sugar water. I actually have saved a few from drowning in my birdbath. How stupid am I.

Damn that had to hurt on the lips. Could indeed have been a sign AC.

When I got stung, it hurt almost instantly, I'm like wtf.

They my thank you later and sting your enemies, if you have any :)

My lip blew up like a balloon and I had to go to work and see the girl, lol.

I bleeding hate wasps, if you want proof that there is no God then it's wasps. Felt something on my head the other day, went to waft what ever it was away, well it was a bleeding wasp, stung me on my bastard finger. What is the point of them?

I have no enemies in my life or in my backyard, except for them. Poor hummingbirds and orioles can barely go to their feeders, and they will be leaving for migration in a couple of weeks and need to feed heavily. It's so fucked up. The only think I can do is take them down.

They are aggressive monsters. I don't mind a wasp here and there but this is too much. I see them chase off and follow the hummingbirds at the feeder.

Good question. They must serve some purpose.

Once when I was a young kid I got bit by one multiple times. Guess it's conditioning because to this day I jump a bit involuntarily when I see a hornet/wasp etc. Black and white hornets are the worst though. Them bastards are mean.

I dont understand, dont birds eat bees? the bees keep the birds away? really??

I also have seen A TON of these things this year, more so than ever before and they are super inquisitive, not necessarily aggressive but they are constantly flying all around you even landing on you. I cant count how many have landed on me or my fishing pole while out fishing lately.

Havent been stung so they arent aggressive but they are everywhere and love being right on top of you

I wonder why this year

That had to hurt! I'm so sorry. I think they are pollinators, other than that I don't know what the point is. Something has to eat them thought don't they? Haven't seen it though.

I'll tell ya what, I have other brownish and blackodd variety colored wasps in my yard also which are not aggressive at all compared to those yellow jackets.

Fucking terrorists.

When I was a kid in 85 i was walking in this sawdust flat and stepped on a wasp nest. They went up my pants and back then the jeans were still pretty tight. They bit and stuck me more times then I could count. I had to rip my pants off in a parking lot of softball players. I couldnt walk for a week. After that I must had been stung 50 times by the same nest because I declared war on them. I poured so many things down that wasp hole and eventually the whole sawdust flat had a fire and finished them off. That thing burned for months and when i went down there where the wasp nest was had a big burned area. I tried to go see if they were there but the ground still felt like it was on fire. We moved shortly after and I never did find out what happened. If those cocksuckers lived I will be pissed. Just in case you are wondering I didnt light the fire lol

We're talking about yellow jackets, not bees

A lot of yellowjackets this year. And ants. Will be happy to see the first cold snap of the autumn.

I thought some birds eat some bees too. Yah up until today I have just let them fly around me as I just go about my business, have had them land on me. Not cool but let it go.

but this year has been different. When I started my lawnmower the other day there was one attacking me out of the blue. My neighbor saw it and said that the wasp was protecting something. Eventually it went away. So idk, just a weird year for yellowjackets in my area. We are coming out of an unusual drought.

Get one of those yellow jacket traps and put a piece of salmon in it. Put it about 10 feet away from the bird feeder. They love bbq fish. Maybe ask at the fish market for a bit of fish skin. You can add a drop of liquid smoke to it.

took out a nest with starting fluid, didnt light it i think it just melts their eyes.....

Many of us have had experience with this ghetto filth of nature.

See how things are.

I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars.
-Darwin

A lot of people don't know the difference, sadly.

I've also been buzzed by yellow jackets a lot this month. Hadn't so much as seen one in at least a few years.

I know they have all these parasitic wasps around here too. They serve zero purpose. I think yellow jackets eat a lot of dead stuff and almost clean up

OOps sorry meant to address post above re: putting salmon in a trap.

I have never heard of this but thank you, I will look into it. It indeed is that bad and I feel so bad for my birds that have migrated here, soon to be going back to Central America.

And brown recluse.

Everywhere.

Yah I do, just being lazy. We tend to call a bee sting a bee sting, even if it was a wasp sting.

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it appears you were the aggressor!