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I would recommend caution when looking under logs or brush due to high Yellow Jacket populations! There have been several incidents of people getting stung pretty bad in the parks recently. Based on this article it is happening all over due to the dry summer.
[This message has been edited by RangerBoy (edited 08-28-2005).]
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Originally posted by Timberline Echoes:
Week before last at Point Pond one of us stepped into a ground nest but the other got stung twice!!! Double ouch!!! We did learn that meat tenderizer made into a paste with water and applied to the bite does help ease the pain.
Timberline EchoesAlso, use caution before sticking your hands into holes in trees, or even man-made structures, or blindly between boards on signs.
I had a “blonde” momment recently…while geocaching in Michigan, I got stung once and just stood there running in placing swatting at the wasp (screaming of course), I kept getting stung then Professor yells RUN…I got out my earth angel wings and flew like the wind. I got stung 10 times…next time I will run away and not in place. Boy that sure hurt!!!! Tami
Since 1998, I have been stung close to 35 times, in a total of about 6 incidents……(after living 29 years without being stung) Then, 2,7-10 stings at a time.
Now, I realized I am alergic to yellow jacket stings- Gotta carry my pills and shot….. Or else-Working at the cabin, I have HAD to learn to inspect everything closely before reaching anywhere I cant see. I tend not to search anything I sense could be a nest. DNF? How about DNGS? (Did Not Get Stung) or DNGSAD (without alegeric pills, stung in the neck,etc you can die- aka-did not get stung and die
If they get you, they got you- they dont miss, so Move Fast, Dont swat and hope, Really Hope you get away before they get you. Just Dont Disturb them, and you should be fine. Move slowly, back away, dont swat.
Well, that is just my impression anyway, sitting here having flashbacks of buzzing swarms with pain, rushing to emergency rooms many miles away, etc-
Be Careful, I guess is my best advice-
And for that pause that refreshes after the find, look out for open soda cans!
Wow, I just posted this warning a few days ago and nearly got nailed myself. I was getting firewood for someone from the wood pile. I was about to add some more pieces to the ones I had loaded into the car when I saw something on a log already in the trunk. It was a nest and the wasps were starting to emerge!
I quick grabbed it, flung it into the woods, and ran. Fortunately it was night and the little stinging pests were docile. I shuddered when it occurred to me I had just been carrying that log against my body. Thank goodness I didn’t grab it by or on the nest!Wow! Sounds like you had a close call there, Ranger Boy. Hard to believe, but my dad actually got stung on the hand, years back, while carrying in firewood from off the wood pile, in the autumn, when the temperature was below 40 degrees.
Probably best to burn any firewood before carrying it.
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