Beautiful wasp zombifies cockroach

dflea · October 2020

A BFH will chase you about twice as far as a yellow jacket will. When I was a kid, we had a christmas tree farm next door. We'd go out hunting for hornet nests - mostly ground hornets - but a huge paper nest was the target.

We had a system to attack a ground hornet nest with a shovel, spray can of paint lit on fire, and a can of gas. A successful operation resulted in a couple stings, and a burned out hole in the ground where the ground hornets thought they were going to have a comfortable home.

A big paper nest would usually get the shotgun and run treatment. Locate the target, run in, two 12 ga blasts, run the fuck away.

I've been chased so many times that I can pretty much tell you how far you should run before you're out of the red zone. Now, I just call the Bee Man and he comes out with a shop vac looking contraption and deals with them for free while I don't get stung at all.

NoWarningJustDawg · October 2020

Gladstone said:

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.

An idiot with basically a phobia of flying things panicked and sort of smacked it right at me. So, friendly fire, I guess.

Swaye · October 2020

Sounds like you dumbasses really need me. This is the most FREE PUB ever received in the history of FREE PUB! I have a special tool for dealing with murder hornets.