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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | I have a trailer house and was cutting my grass on a riding lawn mower Wednesday evening. When I got close to the house, the grass shooting from the blade went into an opening that I have by the water line and it hit a hornets nest. I turn the water on and off there every day at least once and have never seen a hornet. I was swarmed by them and stung several times. I'm not allergic, but there were a lot and they hurt a lot worse than a normal sting (I guess because the stings were concentrated in the same places). And, they hurt bad Wednesday night and most of yesterday. Really painful.
Anyways, Bryan went out after dark to kill them and unloaded two cans of spray on them and said there were a lot. Well, yesterday afternoon, he said that the nests were in the insulation of the trailer and started pulling them out. The nest was a 5 layer nest with the largest being bigger than a large sunflower with the petals. They layered down with each being a little smaller than the last. We estimated there were close to 1500 hornets. We have never seen one that big and in retrospect I am really, really lucky that I didn't get hit by more. They would have killed me or made me very sick. I've been drooling from Benadryl for two days now. So, disregard anything I say today, if you don't alread, because I'm still slobbering a bit. I need a bib today :) |
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Location: NC | This almost happened to my husband recently luckily he only got stung once. He was saying it was pretty scary to him because he has a permanent leg injury and can't run, so he didn't know what he would have done if more than a couple would have came after him. Once before his leg was hurt he was swarmed by a ton of yellow jackets, I think we counted about 20 stings around his head and face alone..... that was a crazy day, he drank a bottle of childrens benadryl and passed out for the rest of the day and night... haha Glad you are ok. |
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Location: Mayerthorpe Alberta | OMG this terrifies me! I am so scared of hornets, wasps, bees and anything that flies and wants to sting me. Very lucky that you arent allergic. Its good hubby is eliminating them. Glad you are ok. And heck today you can get away with saying whatever you want and can blame the benedryl!
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Location: Florida.. | glad your okay you were very lucky.. they will send out a few at first to the predator to sting and warn.... then if they felt threatened the rest would follow.. hope your better soon. |
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Shipwrecked and Flat Out Zapped
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | lurker - 2014-10-03 8:03 AM OMG this terrifies me! I am so scared of hornets, wasps, bees and anything that flies and wants to sting me. Very lucky that you arent allergic. Its good hubby is eliminating them. Glad you are ok. And heck today you can get away with saying whatever you want and can blame the benedryl!
I wasn't too scared of them until so many swarmed me. I can handle some stings, but this was a LOT of them. I had to get off the lawn mower and couldn't really see where I was running to. I could have ran smack into the house because my direction was so thwarted lol. That would have been great. Knock myself out by hitting the house and just lay there for the hornets. |
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Location: Central Texas | Glad you are okay!! |
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Location: At the race track with Ah Dee Ohs | YIKES! That is scary. Glad your OK. |
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| GAH!!! That is close to my worst nightmare! We learned early on that I'm allergic to bees and wasps ... when I was 9, went out to feed my mare in her barn and got NAILED by 20 some stings to my face, neck, head, arms, etc ... I ended up in the hospital and now carry epi pens in all my vehicles, stashed in my barn - everywhere!!
dang girl!!! I'm so glad you are ok and healing ... benadryl sure can make ya drool!! |
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Location: MD | holy crap! glad you are okay and only a little drooly! |
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| Haha, I know this isn't funny...but, I'm picturing you trying to drive away as fast as you can and realizing the mower wasn't going to do it for you so you bale off the mower, stumbling to the ground while the hornets are stinging the crap out of you, while you roll on the ground screaming for help. Then they finally stop, you sit up and wipe the hair off your sweaty forehead wondering what the hell just happened! lol I hope you are feeling better, but I would appreciate a video of this whole thing! |
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Location: Opelousas, LA | Glad you are OK! My six year old is seriously allergic to those things, spent the day in the ER about a month ago because he got stung at school, scary chit for sure! |
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Location: Oz, Kansas | Whiteboy - 2014-10-03 8:05 AM Haha, I know this isn't funny...but, I'm picturing you trying to drive away as fast as you can and realizing the mower wasn't going to do it for you so you bale off the mower, stumbling to the ground while the hornets are stinging the crap out of you, while you roll on the ground screaming for help. Then they finally stop, you sit up and wipe the hair off your sweaty forehead wondering what the hell just happened! lol I hope you are feeling better, but I would appreciate a video of this whole thing!
I was picturing almost the same scenerio but instead jumping in the pond & having to stay there until they went away. I'm glad your okay though & that they have been removed. Now you need to get that hole filled so the lil suckers can't come back. |
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Shipwrecked and Flat Out Zapped
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | Whiteboy - 2014-10-03 9:05 AM Haha, I know this isn't funny...but, I'm picturing you trying to drive away as fast as you can and realizing the mower wasn't going to do it for you so you bale off the mower, stumbling to the ground while the hornets are stinging the crap out of you, while you roll on the ground screaming for help. Then they finally stop, you sit up and wipe the hair off your sweaty forehead wondering what the hell just happened! lol I hope you are feeling better, but I would appreciate a video of this whole thing!
You ain't never seen a white girl run so fast lol...I'm just glad I ran in the right direction.
Thanks guys. That was some scary do do....especially, when I saw the nests....holy smokes....how I never saw one before this is insane. |
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | lookout hill - 2014-10-03 9:14 AM Whiteboy - 2014-10-03 8:05 AM Haha, I know this isn't funny...but, I'm picturing you trying to drive away as fast as you can and realizing the mower wasn't going to do it for you so you bale off the mower, stumbling to the ground while the hornets are stinging the crap out of you, while you roll on the ground screaming for help. Then they finally stop, you sit up and wipe the hair off your sweaty forehead wondering what the hell just happened! lol I hope you are feeling better, but I would appreciate a video of this whole thing! I was picturing almost the same scenerio but instead jumping in the pond & having to stay there until they went away. I'm glad your okay though & that they have been removed. Now you need to get that hole filled so the lil suckers can't come back.
Lol....should I drop and roll? Run faster? Jump in the ditch? I can't remember what you're supposed to do when 1000 hornets are chasing you!!!!! Aughhhhhhh.....Oh, I know, I'll throw my beer at them!........hmmmmm, they don't seem to be thirsty........RUUUUNNNNNNNN!!!! |
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Location: Riding Crackhead. | OMGosh I'm glad your ok. I hate those things. It never fails this time of year I usually get stung. One year at a local parade it was real warm so I was rockin Daisy Dukes. One stung me high on the ham. OMLord it hurt. I'm glad you found the nest though. That could have been bad. Who's Bryan? Someone you found on the world wide web? |
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Shipwrecked and Flat Out Zapped
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | Oh, for you few getting a laugh out of my near death experience lol, here's another visual. Fred always rides on the lawn mower with me. He sits on my left leg and I hold him with my left arm/arm pit. He will follow me around circle after circle after circle until I let him ride, so it's just an automatic thing now. Well, hornets are bearing down on me, swarming all around us and all I can think of first is my little Fred. I'm pretty sure I threw him a good 30 yards like a football lol. Hornets everywhere, chihuahua flying through the air, me running like a lunatic, beer flying everywhere......I'm pretty sure I didn't spill/throw my beer until I had at least 10 hits lol..  |
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Location: DUMPING CATS AND PIGS IN TEXAS :) | CYA Ranch - 2014-10-03 9:24 AM OMGosh I'm glad your ok. I hate those things. It never fails this time of year I usually get stung. One year at a local parade it was real warm so I was rockin Daisy Dukes. One stung me high on the ham. OMLord it hurt. I'm glad you found the nest though. That could have been bad. Who's Bryan? Someone you found on the world wide web?
Picture of you in the Daisy Dukes, please :)
Bryan is the fence builder. He came back. He missed me lol and my radiant personality lol....and, I NEEDED MORE FENCE BUILT LOL. |
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OMG ... I am literally laughing while picturing the poor flying dog!!!!! ( I'm really glad I have my office to myself this morning!!!!) BAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!! |
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| LRQHS - 2014-10-03 9:31 AM
CYA Ranch - 2014-10-03 9:24 AM OMGosh I'm glad your ok. I hate those things. It never fails this time of year I usually get stung. One year at a local parade it was real warm so I was rockin Daisy Dukes. One stung me high on the ham. OMLord it hurt. I'm glad you found the nest though. That could have been bad. Who's Bryan? Someone you found on the world wide web?
Picture of you in the Daisy Dukes, please :)
Bryan is the fence builder. He came back. He missed me lol and my radiant personality lol....and, I NEEDED MORE FENCE BUILT LOL.Â
DAMN CYA ... that would HURT to get hit in the keester! YOUCH!!!
LRQHS - yippee for more fence building!! ;) |
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