Yellow jackets!

[pianoman9701]

I had a similar incident after killing a cow elk.

I was walking back from the kill to camp for some supplies, all covered in blood from field dressing, and I hear the guys yelling at me, "run, run". I turned around and looked at an enormous swarm of yellow jackets coming out of a ground nest that had to have been 4+ feet across. I had just walked through it. I looked down and my legs were covered with bees and I realized I was being stung. I ran through the woods for a couple hundred yards and they all took off, except for one. I got back to camp and felt a tickle in my shirt. I pulled the top open and a yellow jacket flew right up my nose and stung me way up inside. I was seeing stars it hurt so bad. I took off all of my clothes to make sure that was the end of it and had stings all over both legs. No reaction, but it sure sucked.

[seth30]

Glad your son made it out ok   I was clearing land last year and when I moved a rotten log I was swarmed.  My first thought was bees and I ran a few yards turned around and saw a swarm coming at me.  I then ran out of the green lot into a random yard and turned on there sprinkler and stood in it.  I noticed they were yellow jackets after it was all done (some were still on my clothes)  and I was stung about 17 times.  I think they sprayed me with a phermone or something becuase of the distance they chased me.  I remeber feeling sick and I just went home and laid on the couch feeling dizzy and hungover at the same time.  I should have gone to the hospital  

[C-Money]

I got nailed as a kid a few times by yellow jackets. I grew a large fear for those things at a young age. I just hate them! I have a lot of respect for N American honey bees, as they would rather keep working than bother anyone, which is a lesson a lot of us humans could learn from. Scary stories everyone, YIKE. I saw some black and white hornet looking bee/wasp things on a small nest up in the corner of a state outhouse while camping last week. They were new to me and did not attack. Never seen a black and white hornet, it sounds as though a lot of folks have not had good encounters with them!

[Smossy]

I got nailed as a kid a few times by yellow jackets. I grew a large fear for those things at a young age. I just hate them! I have a lot of respect for N American honey bees, as they would rather keep working than bother anyone, which is a lesson a lot of us humans could learn from. Scary stories everyone, YIKE. I saw some black and white hornet looking bee/wasp things on a small nest up in the corner of a state outhouse while camping last week. They were new to me and did not attack. Never seen a black and white hornet, it sounds as though a lot of folks have not had good encounters with them!

Id never seen one either untill I got nailed by 20+.

[irishevox]

i am Glad your son is ok and that everyone on here is ok.  I am allergic to Hornets.  I am from Louisiana have been stung pretty bad.... always a ER visit if i get stung by the Hornets down there.  They are bluish/purple

[Quackwhacker]

Those ones are very pretty.

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[Quackwhacker]

I had a similar incident after killing a cow elk.

I was walking back from the kill to camp for some supplies, all covered in blood from field dressing, and I hear the guys yelling at me, "run, run". I turned around and looked at an enormous swarm of yellow jackets coming out of a ground nest that had to have been 4+ feet across. I had just walked through it. I looked down and my legs were covered with bees and I realized I was being stung. I ran through the woods for a couple hundred yards and they all took off, except for one. I got back to camp and felt a tickle in my shirt. I pulled the top open and a yellow jacket flew right up my nose and stung me way up inside. I was seeing stars it hurt so bad. I took off all of my clothes to make sure that was the end of it and had stings all over both legs. No reaction, but it sure sucked.

Up the nose would not be good. Ouch!

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[irishevox]

yeah they are pretty... and extremely aggresive! and they can stin multiple times.... no fun 

and up the nose how did ya get him out? 

[huntnnw]

yikes...scary deal!

I stepped in a yellow jacket hive walking to a fishing hole...I thought I stepped in a bear trap it hurt so bad and sudden. I couldnt see my lower leg there were that may yellow jackets on my leg..17 stings I dunno if I ever ran thru the woods so fast in my life to the river


I was in the middle of chasing a herd of elk one year and callin to a bull..all the sudden I feel like a thorn got me under my arm! then again! I bald facehornet got inside my jacket and stung me 6 times under arm,arm pit and the side of me! It was everything to keep quiet as I had elk 50 yards in front of me

[3nails]

I found this today. I don't know how I didn't see it sooner. How many cans of spray will take this down 

Is this a YJ nest or bald face hornet? I've had several discussions with people who swear up and down that YJ's don't make nests like these. I see them all the time.

[nwwanderer]

Many species are now common here.  Check out extension bulletin 643 (EB 643) from WSU.  In the ground, paper nest above ground and nests in any convenient hole are everywhere this year.  They are great hunters of some destructive insects but you just can not live with the nasty little monsters.

[bknilvr00]

I must be pretty lucky to be able to say I've never been stung. After hearing what you guys have experienced, Im glad I haven't lol. But its not for lack of trying. Last summer was probably the closest I've come. We had some yellow jackets living in the corner of our roof. I didnt notice them until the wife said her dog was getting stung any time she walks by. So I got a few cans of wasp spray, and proceeded to cut loose. And boy oh boy that was a mass exodus. Hundreds started coming out of the roof, and most weren't dying. I soon realized I was outnumbered and out gunned. So I did the next logical thing, I got closer. I suited up in all my winter carhartt gear, much to my wifes amusement, and equipped myself with two cans of great stuff. Fun fact! Bugs and expanding foam don't get along. The once large and intimidating nest is now a cold and dark tomb of eternal embarrassment that serves as a warning to all stinging insects.    Mitch 1.    Yellow jackets 0.

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[magnanimous_j]

The yellow jackets have been really bad this year. I just got back from Lake Coeur d’Alene and the house we rented had a nest the size of a basketball on the eve. I blasted it with 2 full cans of nest killer and the next day there were still live ones when I knocked it down.

Awful little things. 

[Curly]

I must be pretty lucky to be able to say I've never been stung.

Wow.  Never been stung.......   My wife is the same way.  She has not been stung yet, and she is terrified of them.  (I really wish she would get stung just so she knows what it is like.  I think not knowing maybe is worse than the actual sting).

Me, I've been stung hundreds of times.  Some have been worse than others.

My poor dog got stung when we were pheasant hunting.  He stood over the top of a ground nest and the next thing we knew he had probably 100 yellow jackets on him.  He was a lab with really thick hair and those buggers attacked and they all just kind of disappeared into his fur all at once.  Poor guy just kind of stood there getting stung; and I got him moved away from the hive a ways and then swatted some wasps.  I got stung a few times, but he must have been stung dozens of times.  It was weird how he just kind of froze when the wasps attacked; I don't know if he thought he was getting hit with the shock collar or what?

[bobcat]

You haven't lived yet if you haven't been stung by a yellow jacket. 

I highly recommend experiencing it at least once.