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Just got done.......well almost done mowing the yard. Hit a ground hornet nest and got hammered. 7 stings cut short mowing for today. Anyone else have problems with them buggers?

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Update.....went out early this morning got stung again then filled the hole with hornet killer. I'm going out tonite and put some more in the hole just to be safe. I tell ya, I've been stung by just about everything, but ground hornets by far hurt the worst.

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When a farmer was mowing the field below our house when we were young, my brother and I got hit by a mess of hornets he had hit while mowing. He took the worst of it as I remember.

Recently working on a house I was stung by a single hornet and I thought nothing of it. When I started to get hives a little later I was a little concerned and a trip to the hospital resulted. There was no anaphylaxis, but needless to say whenever I see those f**ckers I do my best to either kill them or get away.

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Hornets, no, but I did stir up a yellow jacket nest. They're not as bad, but still they were bad enough. I was mowing as well, and when I fist noticed, it was with the hot stinging sensation on my ankles. Luckily the stings were concentrated on the knee and below.

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I am a grown man with a wife and daughter, I'm 6'2 and 250 lbs, I lift weights, fix things around the house, drink beer, and love football. And I am a complete baby when it comes to bees, wasps, hornets, etc. I just completely lose it when I see one anywhere near me. It's pathetic, I sometimes think I have an actual phobia.

I was working once trying to dig out some bush stumps in my front yard and a wasp flew by my face. As usual I squealed like a girl and ran into the house. I went back out a minute later and it was gone, but I had so much adrenaline going at that point that I swung and bent a solid steel mattock blade 90 degrees. Fortunately Craftsman honored the "forever" policy. The guy in the store looked like he didn't believe I'd bent it just by swinging. Fight or flight is alive and well in the human race I guess.

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I am a grown man with a wife and daughter, I'm 6'2 and 250 lbs, I lift weights, fix things around the house, drink beer, and love football. And I am a complete baby when it comes to bees, wasps, hornets, etc. I just completely lose it when I see one anywhere near me. It's pathetic, I sometimes think I have an actual phobia.

I've got some friend's like that, but their fear is snake's.

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I'm right there with you pxc. I think I might have a phobia of wasps/hornets/bees.

Example- I was putting on the 9th green from about 10 feet for par. I did my whole pre-shot routine and stepped up to the ball. Hornet flew by my head right as I was about to make my backswing. Of course I did what any man would do. I dropped the club, ducked, turned around, stepped back a couple steps, and all the while slapping the air like a slap fight. Me vs. hornet. Hornet won .

But I made the putt

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I am a grown man with a wife and daughter, I'm 6'2 and 250 lbs, I lift weights, fix things around the house, drink beer, and love football. And I am a complete baby when it comes to bees, wasps, hornets, etc. I just completely lose it when I see one anywhere near me. It's pathetic, I sometimes think I have an actual phobia.

This.

I'm sure it's a bit of a phobia, if for no other reason than that I'm generally fearless about most other things. Stick me in a room with a wasp and I'm insta-wuss. Our biggest problem is with paper wasps. However, I have stuck in my memory an Event of Horror that still gives me the shivers. Once, while riding a dirt bike down a ditchbank with my helmet visor open... In flew a Tarantula Hawk. For those not in the know, this is a 2" long black wasp with bright orange wings. (While they're not particularly aggressive, they apparently lie near the top of 'Schmidt's Pain Index' for hymenopteran stings.) So, basically, this giant wasp goes THWACK into my face at around 40mph. I hear this angry BZZZZZ!!!! inside my helmet. I immediately lay the bike down, and have the helmet flung from my head before I stop skidding. Luckily, I managed to not kill myself.

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This.

Did it sting you? In your situation I might've taken a broken leg over spending any more time with that satan spawn than I had to.

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No. I escaped getting stung on the face by Evil Death Wasp. In retrospect, it was quite worth leaping from a moving motorcycle while throwing my helmet from my head.

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I've killed two separate hornets' nests this year so far, no stings. There's a huge active one down the street in a tree that everyone just leaves alone; so far no one's been hurt by it. They seem to be showing up more around here, not sure why.

I'm not really afraid, though. I've been stung so many times by bees that it's nearly like a mosquito bite to me. Had a run in with a whole hive as a toddler (don't remember it), so I think my immunity is quite built up.

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Some funny stories here. The worst that I ever got stung was years ago. A friend and I went camping. He was climing a bluff above when all of the sudden a big hornet nest fell from a tree right at my feet and swarmed me. Got stung about 20 times. I cussed my friend and accused him of nocking it down on me. Till this day he says he didn't but I still think he did. We used to do mean crap to one another all the time.

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i work at a course on weekends and the driving range is full of ground hornets... the cage on the picker doesnt help either... they can get in and youre pretty much trapped inside a rolling cage with stinging things flying in and out... and the picker isnt exactly the fastest cart on the course
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I got stung yesterday by a hornet while golfing right on the palm pad below the left thumb. It swelled a little (unlike a bee sting) but it sure itches where its stinger went in.

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I was cutting the grass this past Sunday and came across a hornet that had to be 3" long. It had a weird pattern on it's body too, like it was so big they ran out of one type of hornet paint and had to use another to finish.

As usual I screamed and ran. My wife then came out because she heard me and thought I'd run my foot over with the mower. I am such a pansy.

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i got a good story for you guys when i was around 9 years old went golfing with my dad like we did every weekend didnt golf but just walked the course with him and walked in tot he woods looking for golf balls in process i steped on a yellow jackets nest was stung about 50 some times 9 years old and holding beer cans on my body cause i was so swelled up and the course didnt have a ice machine
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Back when I was about 6 or 7 I was at a state park with some family. We were just playing around, climbing on some rocks, playing tag, hide-and-seek, just being kids. I was jumping from one rock to another, miss and my foot goes down into a little hollow area in between. Landed on a hornets nest. I think we counted around 10 stings. Most of them still had the stingers in my skin when we got back to the car. Luckily I am not allergic.

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Just bought a can of wasp spray and I'm about to take down a nest outside our sunroom. I hope I don't die.

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