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Three days ago I was cutting up a large oak in the yard. I was on my knees rolling some very large rounds to finish a cut when I was suddenly attacked by angry wasps. I was swarmed and the immediately found their way into my shirt and shorts. I ended up with only 5 stings as I ran away.
My wife and I were on the back deck in the evening and I told her I was going to destroy the nest. I had found the hole earlier in the day and it was very active. She was horrified that I wasnt going to put any clothes on but I remembered how the wasps had immediately made their way under my clothing making it harder to swat them away. I told her I was better off in my birthday suit and joked that she should film the event.
I walked up to the nest in the dark with a bottle of soap, a garden hose and a flashlight. It took just a few minutes and not even one escaped. I shut off the water when I had finished and returned to the deck.
To my surprise my wife had recorded it. She never pulls out a camera but she did this time, no doubt in hopes of capturing a video of me running off with my junk getting stung. :D
This reminds me of the time I moored up my boat against a wasps' nest.
I had boated up the Thames naked early in the morning and wanted to stop for breakfast and to dress before passing through the next lock so I pulled in at the last discreet moorable spot before the manned lock. Unfortunately, I found that the steering position where I was standing was exactly opposite a wasps' nest in the chest-high bank. I froze and then gently moved away before climbing onto the bank and hammering in the mooring spikes, still naked, where I was greeted by a passing dog walker.
I was not stung at all.
{snip good post} To my surprise my wife had recorded it. She never pulls out a camera but she did this time, no doubt in hopes of capturing a video of me running off with my junk getting stung. :D
Is there any chance of your posting the video for us to see?
Oh my god that brings back memories. Many years ago I was grading a section of my yard with a small bulldozer. It was quite cool that day, upper 50's since a cold front had moved through the previous night so I had a pair of blue jeans and a sweatshirt on. I dug up a nest of what they called Ground Hornets. Needless to say, I was swarmed. Got a few stings on the back of my neck and wrists and there were about a dozen of them on my sweatshirt. I jumped off the bulldozer and ran about 20 ft. away. At that point I slowly removed the sweatshirt and dropped it on the ground. One by one they flew back to their nest. It was about 10 feet from where the bulldozer was sitting there idling. At that point I had a bit of a dilemma. I needed to shut down or move the bulldozer. Since it was cool out I decided on maximum cover up. I was driving race cars at the time so I grabbed my 3 layer Nomex fire suit, head sock, helmet, and a pair of welding gloves. I taped up the areas between the suit and gloves and boots. I went over and moved the bulldozer out of the way. It was a good thing it was cool out, the day before it was in the low 80"s and I would have been wearing nylon running shorts and no shirt. I would have probably got 20-30 stings then.
I was mowing the lawn one day wearing just gym shorts when I bumped the mower into a rotten tree trunk on the edge of my property,
Suddenly several wasps emerged and I got a few bites on as I started quickly moving away.
I took the coverage approach and put on long pants and a long sleeve shirt before dousing the trunk with bug spray.
I was just the other day working above a boat in a lean to of our shed. I had to use a gate for helping me get above the boat. I didn't see any wasp on the gate. But as I was working I had one fly straight up and sting me. It was right on my balls. That hurt the worst and it was very swollen the next day and I had to work so it was a interesting day.
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