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Darn bee’s

Mschmeiske

Mschmeiske

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Well, I went to check some cams and idk if it was when I hopped out of the tree or walking away, but I must have stepped on a ground nest and got stung a dozen times or more. I started running and trying to strip all my crap off…. Needless to say I got away from them and out of the woods, but my saddle, a couple cameras and one stick are still out there. My lovely girlfriend met me at the road with some Benadryl and thinks I should get looked at anyway. I’m kind of an anxious person, so it will ease my mind as well. Darn bees…… as long as I’m alright, my buddy is gonna come with me in a bit to try and retrieve it. I think I ran far enough away from the nest so I hope they retreated from my stuff.
 
They're not bees, they're probably yellow jackets or some form of wasp. Bees have a barbed stinger, like a barb on a fishing hook, and can only sting once because their stinger gets stuck in you and the bees venom sack gets pulled from their body as they fly away, which causes them to die. Yellow jackets (and all wasps) have a barbless stinger which allows them to sting you multiple times and live to do it another day!

A bees sting is initially painful (feels the same as when getting pricked by a hypodermic needle when at the doctors office) but that pain goes away pretty quickly compared to the sting of wasps whose sting feels more like being stabbed by a hot knife and hurts like a mofo for quite awhile! I used to keep bees and have been stung often enough to easily tell the difference between bee stings and the others. I'll take a dozen bee stings over a single wasp sting if I had to choose.

Another thing to note is that bees are not normally aggressive unless you are actively disturbing their hive. Their sting is defensive by nature whereas yellow jackets are highly aggressive, going on the attack for just being in their space and will pursue you as you run away.
 
Had the same thing happen to me yesterday as I was raking leaves from an area prepping to plant a food plot. Luckily I was far enough from my stuff when I got attacked that I could grab everything but my rake.

That thing is still in the woods and will probably stay there til next week. At least.

Good luck!
 
I was loading some wood off an old wood pile in the back yard into the truck on Friday morning and disturbed a ground hornets nest in there. Took a couple of stings before I was able to process what was going on. I unloaded two cans of hornet spray into the hole they were flying in and out of and then we went off for our camping trip. Got back this afternoon and they're still all fired up . . .
 
I went back in and was able to get my gear safely. You could hear them going nuts just down below from where I dropped everything in the midst of running. The two cameras might just stay there until winter haha. Any idea when these things go away or hibernate? If that’s a thing they do.
 
My daughter discovered a wasp nest under her slide the hard way yesterday. Got stung in her bicep and in her quad. My father-in-law who is a exterminator by profession came over within 30 min and took care of them. She is almost 5 and had no idea what was happening, she thought they were mosquitos.

I had a similar experience around her age with a hornet at my grandparents.

Idk what to tell you about those at your camera spot though. If going at night isn’t an option I’d agree with waiting til late fall/winter to get your cams, and make sure you mark that spot on the gps so you don’t have that happen again.
 
Mschmeiske said:
I went back in and was able to get my gear safely. You could hear them going nuts just down below from where I dropped everything in the midst of running. The two cameras might just stay there until winter haha. Any idea when these things go away or hibernate? If that’s a thing they do.
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I’ve already answered that for you…..go back at dark and get your stuff, they won’t bother you.
 
The permethrin you buy in concentrate at tractor supply will kill them immediately.

I had a nest right beside the steps on my deck last week and went out at dark, poured a bottle in and the next morning it was a tomb. Had 5 stragglers buzzing around and killed them too.

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Got nailed by a yellow jacket flew up my shorts and got me behind my knee. There is another strain of jackets called a black jacket even more cantankerous. I usually don't have much problem with the bald face hornets but I give them wide berth. Also the wasps are less likely to sting unless you directly mess with their hives. I had bees for a short time and noticed that they became agitated when it was overcast and I don't know if they there varieties of stingers are affected in the same way.
 
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