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......and does it HAVE to be with the Epipen?

 

Everyone knows the Epipen is in my glove box in the MINI. I get new ones all the time.

Trust me I have a line of people that want to stab me in the neck with it. :lol::lol::lol:

I say no it has to go in my leg but they insist on my neck. :eek6::lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

 

I have felt your pain, I hate Yellow Jackets! I was stung 17 times at once when I was a kid and stumbed into a nest. When I locate a nest in my yard I take a stick and approch it, (going in low so as not to be in their flite path) then I lay the stick down at the entrance hole so I can find it after dark. It's good to stay at least 6 foot away from it or they get nosey. At night they all return to the nest because they don't fly at night. Then after dark I pay them a visit with about half a soup can of gasoline. As you approach the hole with a flashlight you can see the guards at the entrance, they will not leave. I pour the gas right down the hole and put the empty can over it, kills every last one of those little BAS#@%DS.
I have killed off large nests of them without a single sting, one nest I found and destroyed had made a cavity in the ground the size of a soccer ball with thousands of them in it, all dead after my visit.

 

Since I have gotten older I am now highly allergic to bee stings. I never was as a kid but now that highly allergic they are my mortal enemy. I was stung once, walking into a hospital, in the the neck while I was taking my Mother to a Dr. appt. and within 5 min I was out cold on the floor in a Dr.'s waiting room. I woke up to my shirt cut off of me and being the source of a STAT code Blue. I was ruched down to the ER after someone stuck me with 3 needles right on the floor to bring me back.

When I say I am highly allergic I mean I have a half hour to get to the hospital after I am stung even after I use an EpiPen. (Epinephrine Auto-Injectors)

When I have to fight the war on bees I fight to WIN. To get rid of them once and for all I find that filling the hole with 2 gal of gas and lightng it works well. I do this at night when they are sleeping or less active.

Yeah I am a little bit of a pryo but it gets the job done and I am still alive. :mad5::ihih::lol:

 

Make sure your family & friends know where you keep your epipen in case you cannot get to it yourself. Stay away from the bees guys!

 

Raises hand...

 

You could always use a about 6 cans of Sterno...poor mans Napalm.
:idea: :ihih: :mad5: :ihih: :lol:

Bye Bye Bees......:lol:

 

My wife disturbed a nest yesterday while cleaning the bird bath. Fortunately she wasn't stung (this time). The wasps are still flying formation around the birdbath, so the birds are not going in there for awhile.
It also happened a couple years ago moving a rock and she got 5 stings. She took a Benadryl, but didn't react to them very much - just small red bumps. I get it a lot worse.

 

Make sure they are not africanized bees. They can kill a person. I had a bad encounter with yellow jacket wasps as a kid. Dumb me disturbed a nest.

As far as treating the nest goes I'd recommend doing it in the very last light of day, almost dark. Most critters will be in the nest drinking beer & your chances of success are greater.

Be careful & get hubby to the doctor...

 

I've had several encounters with those underground nests. What you did is the best way to handle them. You might have to hit them again in a couple of days depending on how big the nest is and how resilant the little buggers happen to be. The last nest I had in my yard took two treatments to eradicate.

 

Weird...
My wife was in the yard yesterday and got stung by a yellow jacket....
Hope hub's get's better...

 

I am allergic to bee stings and carry an epipen with me, started as a child got bit and hand swelled, went to hospital. Had a friend in the Triumph club die from bee stings in his own back yard, never made it in the house for help.

Get it checked!

 

You are already in the line. :lol::lol:

 

If you really want to freak yourself out........

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7sJ5TZsJ-Q]Basic Insect Anatomy - Asian Giant Hornet Suzumebachi - YouTube[/ame]

 

Working on commercial rooftop HVAC equipment I have encountered many yellow jacket/wasp nests. You can usually spot them quickly but sometimes they are behind service panels and when you pop it off it can be quite the surprise. We had some pretty good spray that instantly dropped them as soon as they got hit. Only time I was ever stung was actually by a regular bee from a nest in a wall. The entrance was at the hole around the pipe for the water spigot. I turned it on and I swear it came flying out stinger first.