YELLOW JACKETS! - Page 2

Pappy · 07-02-12, 10:29 PM

Best thing for stings, less ya gotta bunch of store bought stuff, if Adolphs Meat Tenderizer. Brakes down the protine in the sting.
Tobacca is supposed to do good too, ya take a ciggaret and chew some of the tabacca and spit it out and put on the bite.
I got stung on the bicep a coppla weeks ago fishin in Cherrokee. It was one of them thar red wasps. I still got a red spot big as a cat head bisket thar. I really think that the tobacca only makes it numb there, like it does to ya gums. Not as good as good old Adolph.

JOHNKIES · 07-03-12, 08:38 AM

My daughter who is in her mid-thirties got hit yesterday morning by a hornet on the horse ranch she manages near Bethlehem. One sting. Within a few minutes, after icing her hand, she knew she did not feel right and called the owner to come get because by now she is aware she can't drive. Then she calls 911 and passed out while still on the phone. The fire station is just down the road and when she woke up the paramedics were working on her. She told me it felt like ten minutes between the two calls but when she looked at her phone the two calls were less than a minute apart. She's getting those Epi-pens today!

Mallardknight · 07-05-12, 05:39 PM

My stepdad used to weed eat about a mile of driveway and was getting into yellowjackets every time he did the driveway. He carried benadryl in his pocket to take quickly and a small bottle of ammonia on his work cart. When stung if you get the ammonia on the sting it will help immensely! Even Windex will work to some degree, because it has ammonia in it. The Adolph's meat tenderizer does work too. For the really brave if there is an electric fence around you can apply it as quickly as you can and only a 1/2 second shock is enough and is as quick as you can touch it and get away. It does work! I carry a stun gun in my truck for use on such stings and if my dog gets tagged by a snake (or me!) I will use it in a heartbeat!

Wash the site of a sting as quickly as possible because when you are stung a pheramone is deposited on your skin and serves to bring the others to you. I had that happen to me while helping on that driveway one time. I was stung and later was about fifty yards away from the nest and thirty munites later when I got tracked down by another. When I say wash I mean rinse it off in water is all. Might save ya a bad repetition at some point.

Jerry Clower used to tell how a 3/4" little ole yellowjacket put a 2 thousand pound bull over the pasture fence one day. Those things are mean!

About a tablespoonful of gas in a coke bottle up-ended in the hole and run like heck will take care of them. Best done atfter dark when you have carefully marked the nest position. You can pick up the bottle day after. Do not light the gas! The fumes are heavier than air and will sink to the bottom and suffocate all of them . They will be in the nest after dark. Be wary for those outside for a while.

Sorry for long post!

dhatch · 07-05-12, 07:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mallardknight

About a tablespoonful of gas in a coke bottle up-ended in the hole and run like heck will take care of them. Best done atfter dark when you have carefully marked the nest position. You can pick up the bottle day after. Do not light the gas! The fumes are heavier than air and will sink to the bottom and suffocate all of them . They will be in the nest after dark. Be wary for those outside for a while. Sorry for long post!

I have seen my uncle do this before, but I think he used diesel fuel. He filled a solo cup and threw the fuel on a pretty big nest. I was about 12 when this happened but I don't recall one yellow jacket flying off, they all died where they were.

terry creech · 07-05-12, 09:18 PM

Have been whacked by yellow jackets twice at Dukes. Second time I had to dive in (fortunately it was June so no waders) and retrieve my rod later.

dink · 07-05-12, 09:39 PM

I would take my chances any day with a bear, snake,hogs.Than a yellow
jacket's nest in a laural thicket,Man you can't RUN any where.So be
careful out there.
dink

Acwood04 · 07-06-12, 05:05 PM

Very true, greyest advice. Maybe I should try to Tie some yellow jacket imitation fly's as an addition to the terrestrials.... I've always heard one of the best things for bee stings is tobacco. Either dip or whatever, I've used it before when I got stung once or twice, but man I can't imagine that many times... Ouch.

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Wet Fly · 07-06-12, 10:00 PM

Had to learn the hard way I was allergic to their stings. Never had problems with insect stings in my life until I got whacked by yellow jackets. I ran over their nest with a lawnmower in my front yard and got two stings in each foot. Boy, were they pissed. A bunch of them even chased me down the street for a good 50 yards. I broke out in huge splotches all over and had my wife drive me to the ER. 30 minutes from the stings to the ER and I was short of breath, my eyes and ears were getting swollen shut and I must have looked like a circus freak for they took me in the back as soon as they saw me at the ER. And the ER was packed full of people. Got a couple of shots of adrenaline right off and a bunch of pills to take home. I was released 8 hours later. Had to report back to the ER the next day b/c the swelling came back full blast. Stayed another 6 hours that time. Must carry an EPI pen now wherever I go. I hate those buggers even more than I hate the snakes. Be careful out there.

fishbum · 07-07-12, 12:18 PM

Thanks for all your comments. I grew up in the woods so I knew about the tobacco juice for stings and the gas for getting rid of the jackets and wasps. Many a time I have thrown a cup of gas on a wasp nest. We used to raid the gassed nests for the early lava which make great hook bait for bream. I was not aware of the ammonia treatment and I will be getting a couple of EPI-pens.

I have been stung once or twice many times, but never attacked by a swarm as in this case and as documented by others in the comments above. Hopefully the experiences outlined herein will be read by many and someone will be saved at a minimum from a bad encounter with these stinging insects.

Incidentally, I don't own a Bulldog cap, as I am a Alabama alumni and attended graduate school at Georgia Tech many years ago...

07-03-12, 08:38 AM	#12
JOHNKIES Hall of Fame Member Join Date: Nov 1998 Location: Laurel Park, NC USA Posts: 3,776	Use Caution My daughter who is in her mid-thirties got hit yesterday morning by a hornet on the horse ranch she manages near Bethlehem. One sting. Within a few minutes, after icing her hand, she knew she did not feel right and called the owner to come get because by now she is aware she can't drive. Then she calls 911 and passed out while still on the phone. The fire station is just down the road and when she woke up the paramedics were working on her. She told me it felt like ten minutes between the two calls but when she looked at her phone the two calls were less than a minute apart. She's getting those Epi-pens today!

07-05-12, 09:18 PM	#15
terry creech Hall of Fame Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Paulding County Posts: 1,765	Have been whacked by yellow jackets twice at Dukes. Second time I had to dive in (fortunately it was June so no waders) and retrieve my rod later. __________________ "Good things come to those who wade."

07-05-12, 09:39 PM	#16
dink Native Join Date: Feb 2002 Location: CANTON,GA. Posts: 615	I would take my chances any day with a bear, snake,hogs.Than a yellow jacket's nest in a laural thicket,Man you can't RUN any where.So be careful out there. dink __________________ Some fishermen see no fish and foolishly believe that the river is empty. Henry Van Dyke

07-06-12, 10:00 PM	#18
Wet Fly Hall of Fame Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Next door to Alice Posts: 1,541	Had to learn the hard way I was allergic to their stings. Never had problems with insect stings in my life until I got whacked by yellow jackets. I ran over their nest with a lawnmower in my front yard and got two stings in each foot. Boy, were they pissed. A bunch of them even chased me down the street for a good 50 yards. I broke out in huge splotches all over and had my wife drive me to the ER. 30 minutes from the stings to the ER and I was short of breath, my eyes and ears were getting swollen shut and I must have looked like a circus freak for they took me in the back as soon as they saw me at the ER. And the ER was packed full of people. Got a couple of shots of adrenaline right off and a bunch of pills to take home. I was released 8 hours later. Had to report back to the ER the next day b/c the swelling came back full blast. Stayed another 6 hours that time. Must carry an EPI pen now wherever I go. I hate those buggers even more than I hate the snakes. Be careful out there. __________________ WF De gustibus non disputandum est.

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07-02-12, 10:29 PM	#11
Pappy Native Join Date: May 2012 Location: Blue Ridge, GA Posts: 111	Best thing for stings, less ya gotta bunch of store bought stuff, if Adolphs Meat Tenderizer. Brakes down the protine in the sting. Tobacca is supposed to do good too, ya take a ciggaret and chew some of the tabacca and spit it out and put on the bite. I got stung on the bicep a coppla weeks ago fishin in Cherrokee. It was one of them thar red wasps. I still got a red spot big as a cat head bisket thar. I really think that the tobacca only makes it numb there, like it does to ya gums. Not as good as good old Adolph.

07-05-12, 05:39 PM	#13
Mallardknight Stocker Join Date: Mar 2012 Posts: 12	My stepdad used to weed eat about a mile of driveway and was getting into yellowjackets every time he did the driveway. He carried benadryl in his pocket to take quickly and a small bottle of ammonia on his work cart. When stung if you get the ammonia on the sting it will help immensely! Even Windex will work to some degree, because it has ammonia in it. The Adolph's meat tenderizer does work too. For the really brave if there is an electric fence around you can apply it as quickly as you can and only a 1/2 second shock is enough and is as quick as you can touch it and get away. It does work! I carry a stun gun in my truck for use on such stings and if my dog gets tagged by a snake (or me!) I will use it in a heartbeat! Wash the site of a sting as quickly as possible because when you are stung a pheramone is deposited on your skin and serves to bring the others to you. I had that happen to me while helping on that driveway one time. I was stung and later was about fifty yards away from the nest and thirty munites later when I got tracked down by another. When I say wash I mean rinse it off in water is all. Might save ya a bad repetition at some point. Jerry Clower used to tell how a 3/4" little ole yellowjacket put a 2 thousand pound bull over the pasture fence one day. Those things are mean! About a tablespoonful of gas in a coke bottle up-ended in the hole and run like heck will take care of them. Best done atfter dark when you have carefully marked the nest position. You can pick up the bottle day after. Do not light the gas! The fumes are heavier than air and will sink to the bottom and suffocate all of them . They will be in the nest after dark. Be wary for those outside for a while. Sorry for long post!

07-06-12, 05:05 PM	#17
Acwood04 Native Join Date: May 2012 Location: Norcross, GA Posts: 83	Very true, greyest advice. Maybe I should try to Tie some yellow jacket imitation fly's as an addition to the terrestrials.... I've always heard one of the best things for bee stings is tobacco. Either dip or whatever, I've used it before when I got stung once or twice, but man I can't imagine that many times... Ouch. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

07-07-12, 12:18 PM	#19
fishbum Native Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Cumming, Ga. Posts: 34	Thanks for all your comments. I grew up in the woods so I knew about the tobacco juice for stings and the gas for getting rid of the jackets and wasps. Many a time I have thrown a cup of gas on a wasp nest. We used to raid the gassed nests for the early lava which make great hook bait for bream. I was not aware of the ammonia treatment and I will be getting a couple of EPI-pens. I have been stung once or twice many times, but never attacked by a swarm as in this case and as documented by others in the comments above. Hopefully the experiences outlined herein will be read by many and someone will be saved at a minimum from a bad encounter with these stinging insects. Incidentally, I don't own a Bulldog cap, as I am a Alabama alumni and attended graduate school at Georgia Tech many years ago...