Beautiful wasp zombifies cockroach

Gladstone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ySwuQhruBo

PurpleThrobber

That's kinda what happens with @Doog_de_Jour 's conquests.

Gladstone

This is horrifying and fascinating. You dudes are boring!

Ice_Holmvik

That was great. Wonderful camera work.

Ice_Holmvik

Up close pictures of a yellow jacket stinger

Gladstone

Murder hornets have assigned nest guards:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mH5eVW-6xfo

LebamDawg

that is good film - I hate all forms of wasps/bees/spiders as I am allergic to those bastards. This appears to be the only one that does some good in the world.
With my luck I would run into a large hive of these guys and they would make me into a zombie.
more of a zombie would be more accurate.

Made me look up a couple of things - which insect sting hurts the most. Out of this list I have had fire ants, yellow jacket, honey bee, and bald-faced hornet stings. BF hornet put me in the hospital for 3 days once, twice to emergency room, yellow jacket ER trip, fire ant just made me uncomfortable for 5 days. Honey Bee I missed 3 days of work - stepped on one and my leg looked like Alley Oop's leg.

https://www.planetdeadly.com/animals/painful-stings-schmidt-pain-index

Gladstone

LebamDawg said:

that is good film - I hate all forms of wasps/bees/spiders as I am allergic to those bastards. This appears to be the only one that does some good in the world.
With my luck I would run into a large hive of these guys and they would make me into a zombie.
more of a zombie would be more accurate.

Made me look up a couple of things - which insect sting hurts the most. Out of this list I have had fire ants, yellow jacket, honey bee, and bald-faced hornet stings. BF hornet put me in the hospital for 3 days once, twice to emergency room, yellow jacket ER trip, fire ant just made me uncomfortable for 5 days. Honey Bee I missed 3 days of work - stepped on one and my leg looked like Alley Oop's leg.

https://www.planetdeadly.com/animals/painful-stings-schmidt-pain-index

Great link. I thought the tarantula hawk was the worst sting in the world but those bullet ant accounts are pure nightmare fuel.

"Pure, intense, brilliant pain. Like fire-walking over flaming charcoal with a 3-inch rusty nail in your heel."

Ice_Holmvik

Last September I was setting up elk camp in the Colockum. My black lab was with me and I got out the weed whacker to start clearing grass. I see my dog start snapping at his butt just before the first hornet stings me. I'd disturbed an underground yellow jackets nest and a nest of bald faced hornets on the back of a log. Fortunately hornets go after black so my hound got it worse than I did. We took off running. I've got 3 bfh attached to my shirt. Those bastards will latch on and keep giving you the business. Were running and I'm swatting at myself, I look at my dog and the poor fellow has hornets attached to his fur coming along for the ride. I started smacking him while running trying to knock the hornets off of him. We ran over 100 yards on a dead sprint and those bastards were still stinging us. I flat out couldn't run anymore I was gasping for air rolling on an old logging road trying to smash the remaining hornets. When it was over I got bit/stung 8 times that found skin. Not sure how many the dog had but they were flat out stuck to his hide letting him have it.

LebamDawg

Ice_Holmvik said:

Last September I was setting up elk camp in the Colockum. My black lab was with me and I got out the weed whacker to start clearing grass. I see my dog start snapping at his butt just before the first hornet stings me. I'd disturbed an underground yellow jackets nest and a nest of bald faced hornets on the back of a log. Fortunately hornets go after black so my hound got it worse than I did. We took off running. I've got 3 bfh attached to my shirt. Those bastards will latch on and keep giving you the business. Were running and I'm swatting at myself, I look at my dog and the poor fellow has hornets attached to his fur coming along for the ride. I started smacking him while running trying to knock the hornets off of him. We ran over 100 yards on a dead sprint and those bastards were still stinging us. I flat out couldn't run anymore I was gasping for air rolling on an old logging road trying to smash the remaining hornets. When it was over I got bit/stung 8 times that found skin. Not sure how many the dog had but they were flat out stuck to his hide letting him have it.

I never would have made it to the hospital. I would be in HH Hell (worse than actually being here). Damn, glad you made it. When I went to the hospital, I got stung once, at the same time my wife took out the nest she got stung 6 times. Joke in the family now. On that list of stings, the BFH should be up higher

LebamDawg

bald face hornets - https://www.pestco.com/9-reasons-to-fear-the-bald-faced-hornet/

one of the best descriptions of them I think

Ice_Holmvik

LebamDawg said:

Ice_Holmvik said:

Last September I was setting up elk camp in the Colockum. My black lab was with me and I got out the weed whacker to start clearing grass. I see my dog start snapping at his butt just before the first hornet stings me. I'd disturbed an underground yellow jackets nest and a nest of bald faced hornets on the back of a log. Fortunately hornets go after black so my hound got it worse than I did. We took off running. I've got 3 bfh attached to my shirt. Those bastards will latch on and keep giving you the business. Were running and I'm swatting at myself, I look at my dog and the poor fellow has hornets attached to his fur coming along for the ride. I started smacking him while running trying to knock the hornets off of him. We ran over 100 yards on a dead sprint and those bastards were still stinging us. I flat out couldn't run anymore I was gasping for air rolling on an old logging road trying to smash the remaining hornets. When it was over I got bit/stung 8 times that found skin. Not sure how many the dog had but they were flat out stuck to his hide letting him have it.

I never would have made it to the hospital. I would be in HH Hell (worse than actually being here). Damn, glad you made it. When I went to the hospital, I got stung once, at the same time my wife took out the nest she got stung 6 times. Joke in the family now. On that list of stings, the BFH should be up higher

Some people like yourself really need to be careful. Do you carry an epi pen with you? My dad back in the day had his tongue swell up real bad and needed to go to the hospital. Fortunately I've got a tolerance for hornet venom as I have been swarmed and stung by multiple hornets 3 times on my life.

chuck

LebamDawg said:

that is good film - I hate all forms of wasps/bees/spiders as I am allergic to those bastards. This appears to be the only one that does some good in the world.
With my luck I would run into a large hive of these guys and they would make me into a zombie.
more of a zombie would be more accurate.

Made me look up a couple of things - which insect sting hurts the most. Out of this list I have had fire ants, yellow jacket, honey bee, and bald-faced hornet stings. BF hornet put me in the hospital for 3 days once, twice to emergency room, yellow jacket ER trip, fire ant just made me uncomfortable for 5 days. Honey Bee I missed 3 days of work - stepped on one and my leg looked like Alley Oop's leg.

https://www.planetdeadly.com/animals/painful-stings-schmidt-pain-index

Man I'm glad I'm not allergic. They're bad enough as it is. I got nailed on my ring finger and the back of my leg yesterday on a very narrow, precarious trail with a 100' into a river (or rocks depending). I didn't take time to see what was stinging me...just kept walking fast until I was well past the spot and where the trail was wider.

Whatever it was left its stinger in my knuckle. By last night my whole hand looked like a balloon and burned like hell. Its better today but my finger is stiff as a board. Awful, vicious little bastards.

Pitchfork51

Bad genes imo

Gladstone

chuck said:

LebamDawg said:

that is good film - I hate all forms of wasps/bees/spiders as I am allergic to those bastards. This appears to be the only one that does some good in the world.
With my luck I would run into a large hive of these guys and they would make me into a zombie.
more of a zombie would be more accurate.

Made me look up a couple of things - which insect sting hurts the most. Out of this list I have had fire ants, yellow jacket, honey bee, and bald-faced hornet stings. BF hornet put me in the hospital for 3 days once, twice to emergency room, yellow jacket ER trip, fire ant just made me uncomfortable for 5 days. Honey Bee I missed 3 days of work - stepped on one and my leg looked like Alley Oop's leg.

https://www.planetdeadly.com/animals/painful-stings-schmidt-pain-index

Man I'm glad I'm not allergic. They're bad enough as it is. I got nailed on my ring finger and the back of my leg yesterday on a very narrow, precarious trail with a 100' into a river (or rocks depending). I didn't take time to see what was stinging me...just kept walking fast until I was well past the spot and where the trail was wider.

Whatever it was left its stinger in my knuckle. By last night my whole hand looked like a balloon and burned like hell. Its better today but my finger is stiff as a board. Awful, vicious little bastards.

When I was growing up in my neighborhood, I spent most of my afternoon playing with the kids across the street. One day, we notice that there is a huge paper wasp nest right outside a window on the third floor of their house. Us, being geniuses, decided that we were going to throw shit at it.

We rounded up two tennis balls and took turns throwing the ball as close as we could to it. The wasps, which were about 15-20 in number, would chase the tennis ball for a several meters and we would book it. Rinse and repeat until one turn where I was retrieving my tennis ball, and I heard my cousin start screaming. I turned and she had so many wasps around her face that you couldn't tell it was her. They clung to her shirt as well, stinging her repeatedly as she ran home crying out in an ecstatic frenzy of pain and suffering. In an uncharacteristic display of chivalry, I caught up to her and tried brushing them off and shaking her down. Mistake.

Huge swathes of wasps proceeded to sting the shit out the left side of my face; I was also stung several times on my hand from wiping them off. It was absolutely horrifying, not to mention extraordinarily painful. Cousin was hospitalized for days.

To top it all off, I had a suit and tie dinner with my family 2 hours later.

I was 7 or 8 years old. Been somewhat phobic of yet fascinated by wasps since.

chuck

Gladstone said:

chuck said:

LebamDawg said:

that is good film - I hate all forms of wasps/bees/spiders as I am allergic to those bastards. This appears to be the only one that does some good in the world.
With my luck I would run into a large hive of these guys and they would make me into a zombie.
more of a zombie would be more accurate.

Made me look up a couple of things - which insect sting hurts the most. Out of this list I have had fire ants, yellow jacket, honey bee, and bald-faced hornet stings. BF hornet put me in the hospital for 3 days once, twice to emergency room, yellow jacket ER trip, fire ant just made me uncomfortable for 5 days. Honey Bee I missed 3 days of work - stepped on one and my leg looked like Alley Oop's leg.

https://www.planetdeadly.com/animals/painful-stings-schmidt-pain-index

Man I'm glad I'm not allergic. They're bad enough as it is. I got nailed on my ring finger and the back of my leg yesterday on a very narrow, precarious trail with a 100' into a river (or rocks depending). I didn't take time to see what was stinging me...just kept walking fast until I was well past the spot and where the trail was wider.

Whatever it was left its stinger in my knuckle. By last night my whole hand looked like a balloon and burned like hell. Its better today but my finger is stiff as a board. Awful, vicious little bastards.

When I was growing up in my neighborhood, I spent most of my afternoon playing with the kids across the street. One day, we notice that there is a huge paper wasp nest right outside a window on the third floor of their house. Us, being geniuses, decided that we were going to throw shit at it.

We rounded up two tennis balls and took turns throwing the ball as close as we could to it. The wasps, which were about 15-20 in number, would chase the tennis ball for a several meters and we would book it. Rinse and repeat until one turn where I was retrieving my tennis ball, and I heard my cousin start screaming. I turned and she had so many wasps around her face that you couldn't tell it was her. They clung to her shirt as well, stinging her repeatedly as she ran home crying out in an ecstatic frenzy of pain and suffering. In an uncharacteristic display of chivalry, I caught up to her and tried brushing them off and shaking her down. Mistake.

Huge swathes of wasps proceeded to sting the shit out the left side of my face; I was also stung several times on my hand from wiping them off. It was absolutely horrifying, not to mention extraordinarily painful. Cousin was hospitalized for days.

To top it all off, I had a suit and tie dinner with my family 2 hours later.

I was 7 or 8 years old. Been somewhat phobic of yet fascinated by wasps since.

I get a sting or two per year most times. Each time I'm surprised at how startling, painful, and long lasting it is. When that one nailed my finger yesterday it felt like a high powered BB gun or something had hit me and i actually yelled out..

I was cringing reading that story. I can't even imagine how bad it is to get a whole nest of wasps at once.

NoWarningJustDawg

Aw fuck, y'all are giving me flashbacks. CSB:
A tarantula hawk got me good a few years back.

Basically imagine sticking an appendage in a light socket, while also being on fire, and you'll have a good idea what it feels like.

They say it lasts only 5 minutes; it was definitely not a lengthy ordeal but I estimate 7-8 minutes. I don't remember going to the car but apparently I bit down on a towel which seems to have helped me from hurting my jaw/teeth.

But that kind of pain has lasting effects. Wasp PTSD basically, lulz. I was sweating profusely and couldn't catch my breath for like an hour. Supposedly they are only in western KS, not my southeastern part of the state, but every time I see big orange wings I head the other direction, just in case.

RoadDawg55

Gladstone said:

chuck said:

LebamDawg said:

that is good film - I hate all forms of wasps/bees/spiders as I am allergic to those bastards. This appears to be the only one that does some good in the world.
With my luck I would run into a large hive of these guys and they would make me into a zombie.
more of a zombie would be more accurate.

Made me look up a couple of things - which insect sting hurts the most. Out of this list I have had fire ants, yellow jacket, honey bee, and bald-faced hornet stings. BF hornet put me in the hospital for 3 days once, twice to emergency room, yellow jacket ER trip, fire ant just made me uncomfortable for 5 days. Honey Bee I missed 3 days of work - stepped on one and my leg looked like Alley Oop's leg.

https://www.planetdeadly.com/animals/painful-stings-schmidt-pain-index

Man I'm glad I'm not allergic. They're bad enough as it is. I got nailed on my ring finger and the back of my leg yesterday on a very narrow, precarious trail with a 100' into a river (or rocks depending). I didn't take time to see what was stinging me...just kept walking fast until I was well past the spot and where the trail was wider.

Whatever it was left its stinger in my knuckle. By last night my whole hand looked like a balloon and burned like hell. Its better today but my finger is stiff as a board. Awful, vicious little bastards.

When I was growing up in my neighborhood, I spent most of my afternoon playing with the kids across the street. One day, we notice that there is a huge paper wasp nest right outside a window on the third floor of their house. Us, being geniuses, decided that we were going to throw shit at it.

We rounded up two tennis balls and took turns throwing the ball as close as we could to it. The wasps, which were about 15-20 in number, would chase the tennis ball for a several meters and we would book it. Rinse and repeat until one turn where I was retrieving my tennis ball, and I heard my cousin start screaming. I turned and she had so many wasps around her face that you couldn't tell it was her. They clung to her shirt as well, stinging her repeatedly as she ran home crying out in an ecstatic frenzy of pain and suffering. In an uncharacteristic display of chivalry, I caught up to her and tried brushing them off and shaking her down. Mistake.

Huge swathes of wasps proceeded to sting the shit out the left side of my face; I was also stung several times on my hand from wiping them off. It was absolutely horrifying, not to mention extraordinarily painful. Cousin was hospitalized for days.

To top it all off, I had a suit and tie dinner with my family 2 hours later.

I was 7 or 8 years old. Been somewhat phobic of yet fascinated by wasps since.

I’m just giving you shit, but three story houses and suit and tie dinners at 8? Where did you live? A plantation house in the South?

Gladstone

lmao

mukilteo. close enough i guess

Gladstone

NoWarningJustDawg said:

Aw fuck, y'all are giving me flashbacks. CSB:
A tarantula hawk got me good a few years back.

Basically imagine sticking an appendage in a light socket, while also being on fire, and you'll have a good idea what it feels like.

They say it lasts only 5 minutes; it was definitely not a lengthy ordeal but I estimate 7-8 minutes. I don't remember going to the car but apparently I bit down on a towel which seems to have helped me from hurting my jaw/teeth.

But that kind of pain has lasting effects. Wasp PTSD basically, lulz. I was sweating profusely and couldn't catch my breath for like an hour. Supposedly they are only in western KS, not my southeastern part of the state, but every time I see big orange wings I head the other direction, just in case.

I had a bio professor at UW say that her sting from a TH was more painful than the birth of her firstborn. Were you just out in the wild and didn't notice until it got you? Do you think you stepped on it or something? They are known as not usually being aggressive towards people.

LebamDawg

Yes I carry Epi-Pens with me - or nearby at all times. I am lucky that the stings I get have not caused anaphylactic reaction yet. But one sting on my finger caused my entire arm to be about the size of my lower leg. Nary a wrinkle in the arm. That happened twice with BFH within 2 weeks of each sting. My blood pressure goes nuts for 2-6 hours and then pain and swelling. ERs are very responsive when I show up - they do not mess around for insect stings.

All the other stories scare the shit out of me - youse guys need to say fuck nature and self quarantine inside all summer long. Kinda like we are supposed to do now. I bet during the Vid sting deaths are down!!!!