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  • From: Betty Mayfield <bmayfield@columbia-center.org>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Re: hornets and wasp
  • Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 00:07:50 -0700

To the list,

The last time I was stung by anything I was throwing rocks at a yellow jacket nest when I was 10 years old. (OK, I deserved it!)

I had been stung a couple times previously and knew that it meant pain followed by an hour or so of moderate swelling, but this time I had read about the baking soda remedy, so when I felt the pain like a burning needle in my forehead, I rushed to the kitchen, made a soda paste and slapped it on my face. The pain left immediately, and there was no swelling. I have never had occasion to use this remedy again, but if I were stung I would head for the soda.

Betty Mayfield


At 07:11 PM 8/18/03 -0400, Tom wrote:
Hello,

A "sting" has to be very personal. As individual a response as there are variations in our immune
response, combined with pain thresholds.

My last yellow jacket sting gave a burning sensation when I got it, but the worst part was the itch
that followed. I have had my share of itchiness (poison ivy, etc.) and none compared to that last
sting on my ankle. I do not recall yellow jacket stings being itchy in my youth, but I am older,
and our bodies change.

When I was a boy, the doctor said to make a paste of baking soda. Today "After-Bite" is really
just ammonia.

What is the best after care for a sting?

Later,
Tom

tanis cuff wrote:

> Are "bald faced hornets" the ones which are black & white-- black with white
> design ? I've found that, of all the stinging insects, these have the most
> painful sting. The little yellow ground nesters ("german yellow-jackets"
> ?) sting so pitifully, at first I wonder what bramble I've bumped into.
> But the bald-faced I DO NOT mess with !
>
> Or is sting perception an individual thing ?
>
> Tanis Cuff, s.WI, mostly bumblebees around my place though
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: list@ginda.us
> Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> To: griffingardens@earthlink.net,North American Fruit Explorers
> <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Re: hornets and wasp
> Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 17:47:13 -0400
>
> Ouch!
>
> I've had moderate luck using a long stick to knock the nest down, and
> letting the skunks and whatnot take it from there.
>
> Ginda
>
> On Monday, August 18, 2003, at 08:09 AM, Griffin Gardens wrote:
>
> >Good morning,
> >
> >I just learned something that might be of interest to anyone having to deal
> >with bald-faced hornets - the kind that build the Japanese lantern like
> >nests suspended from small diameter tree branches. I have two nests in the
> >yard: one in a basswood in an out of the way corner of the yard that is
> >easily avoided, and the other in my ready-for-applesauce Whitney crab. I am
> >content to let the grass grow in the basswood area, but I am out of
> >applesauce and need to get rid of the hornets now, Whitneys being the ripe
> >at 12:00 PM, mush by noon type apple.
> >
> >What I learned is that hornets do not go into the nest on windy, humid
> >nights with a low temp of 75 F. Rather they gather around the opening
> >waiting in the dark for someone to come along with a can of insecticide in
> >one hand and a flash light in the other, so they can sting him in his ample
> >forehead when he approaches and turns on the light. Bonus lesson: this kind
> >of weather makes hornets just as cranky as it does the humans.
> >
> >I'll try the soapy water as soon as the swelling goes down if I am able to
> >screw up my courage sufficiently.
> >
> >Dave
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >
> >From: Lon J. Rombough
> >To: North American Fruit Explorers
> >Sent: 8/8/03 8:18:30 PM
> >Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Re: hornets and wasp
> >
> >One vital ingredient to using the glass jar - put it on in early morning,
> >like just at or before sunrise. The yellowjackets won't be active or out
> >of the nest, especially if it's still dark.
> >-Lon Rombough
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >Lon has an exellent method. If you don't want to get so close to the
> >stingers, flood them with soapy water. Use one of those fertilizer sprayers
> >you can attach to your water hose, fill it with diluted liquid soap. When
> >the critters dry out, the soap will have washed away some essential body
> >oils that seal their bodies. They will dehydrate and die in a short time.
> >Of
> >course, you will be washing away some of the nutrients you built the
> >compost
> >heap for, so better use Lon's way if you can.
> >
> >Joyce
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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