I Got Attacked & Stung By a Nest of Yellowjacket Wasps
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2023
- I was walking through the woods, when all of a sudden, I ran into a yellow jacket nest.  They got very angry at me, and set out to let me know how angry they were with their stingers. Yellowjackets are a type of wasp that builds their nest underground. When their nest is disturbed, they will aggressively defend it. They are not above whipping out their stingers and having at you with them.  A lot of people call them bees, but they are actually a type of wasp.
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Lol ... several years ago and old timber owner Bob Maley told me about a section he had logged off and while he was checking the site out he seen a sign at the back of the clear cut so he walked on over to see what it said and on it was written....if you can read this sign your standing in a yellow jackets nest....he did clarify that there were 10 of them to be exact and he got stung over 300 times and put in the hospital...said it was a dirty trick to post that sign lol but it don't end there ....2 weeks later he went back with his bulldozer to do some brushing to get ready for the tree planters .. he was at the other end of the clear cut...and got on some more yellow jacket nest and his words they got sucked up into the cab with him and he got stung 300 times more ...well back to the hospital he went...by the way he was 84 at the time...and he still had a good sense of humor on it ... unfortunately he's not with us anymore but every time I drive past his timber land I think of the story's he used to tell ...cheers
Is that the Bob Maley in Linn County? "Ponderosa pine" Bob Maley?
There’s a fair amount of BS and Sadness on RUclips, that’s just the way it is I guess.
Fortunately there’s also good information and joy on RUclips.
Wilson you’re on the joy and good information side of the RUclips line and I’m thankful for you.
I guess I have a small sadistic muscle in me....I was laughing my Azz off when I thought you were getting chased! But actually, I’m glad you only got popped once! Stay safe my friend! Great video!
When I did that part I was expecting a lot of sadistic muscles to get exercised. I would do the same, apparently I have one too. 😀
Funny stuff 😂 At the end of this one maybe add a link to your video of the bear going after the nests you did a while back. That one was good too. Very cool to see a pretty cinnamon momma bear with two cubs just over CA/OR boarder near Applegate lake yesterday. Way more bears around than in the 60's and 70's when I was a kid!
You'd give Jeff Foxworthy a run for the money with that bee dance. It's so darned funny because I've done the dance and also watched others with me do it. It's a real knee-slapper watching them try to gain traction and beat feet out of there! Thanx for causing my memory bone to jar my funny bone.😅
They were common residences in the redwoods...I learned what I needed to know about them cutting timber, and the old timers offered me good information. No matter what, you'll get hit by one to two, now and again. It's not if, it's when.
This really hits home. From retired Registered Forester in my State. Been there done that.
As little kids one day we were looking for bugs to put in a jar. We suddenly got swarmed, around 40 stings. We still don't know where exactly they came from. Had to be an underground nest. Big brother wouldn't let me in the house with a cloud of yellow jackets over me." Use a water hose", just made them madder. So easy to overlook cause you don't see the nest until you step on it. Elderly people, little kids, dogs, cats can easily die from these. It's the shock of having white hot splinters or the cherry of a cigarette jabbed into you over and over. The venom from these is so painful.
Swatted one the other day in my truck and felt pain without getting stung. Always assume the possibility around a campsite or hiking. WATCH YOUR STEP.
It's them hornets with the full chisel stingers ya gotta watch out for,....... the semi chiselers, not so much !!
where is that bear when you need him
Last winter I found a yellow jacket nest that had recently been dug up by a bear a hundred yards from our house. This season the yellow jackets are very scarce.
This video brings back a lot memories, I fell timber for 25 years and every fall I would get into their nest, they seemed to always be at the stump and with the saw running and chips flying you didn't know you where on their nest until you got stung, I have had them all over, up my pants and under my hat, but the hardest I've been hit was with baldheaded hornets. Not good.
A benadryl in the truck console can save a life someday
Yeah, I had a yellow jacket bald faced hornet nest about 50 feet from my house. I tried to ignore them for a few months, but after the third time I got stung, I decided to give them a nice soapy water bath and they were really nice after that matter fact, I never saw them again, coyotes seem to want to dig it out afterwards I was trying to find a reason that I shouldn’t kill them, but they were kind of blocking my path. All you need is some dish soap and a hose wait till dusk or just after it gets dark! well, I really good friend is one that you can out run! I hear they work, especially good for bear
Oh man, I’ve seen a couple skidder operators get nailed so bad they had to be driven out and never made it back to work! Awful buggers!
Your telling your story in such a beautiful setting.
You are actually pretty funny and I like this unusual genre of nature, nature advice / experience and comedy.
Yellow Jackets don bee yor fren.
Good video.
widening an intersection, I was hauling the branches out of the road, got stung many times, taken to a doc’s office. he shot me up with adrenaline and told me if it happened again within 7 years, go immediately to an emergency room, that’s how long the venom stays in your body! Very painful. THE OLD RETIRED LABORER
i'd never been stung before until last summer. My chicken died so i had to bury it somewhere in my backyard. i had found a good spot, so i started digging. unfortunately for me, i was standing right on a nest of yellowjackets, they were nesting underground, about 10 inches from where i started digging. Lesson learned that day. Got stung like 15-20 times. Didnt hurt nearly as bad as i thought it would tho, it was more like itching. glad i'm not allergic to them like my dad, it could've ended not so well.
Stay safe everyone!
Idk if I'm just a wuss but they're more than a little unpleasant. I'm not deathly allergic but if I get stung on a finger my whole hand is unusable and itchy for like 4 days
I’ve had many encounters with Yellowjacket’s over the years. Only about a month ago I did the bee dance! Only got stung 5 times but that was more than enough. My hiking partner had a sheepish grin on his face. I guess my bee dance was funny to him but he didn’t want to laugh out loud while I was still in pain. Oh well, at least he did go back and pick up my hiking poles for me!
I love this guy stories keep them segments coming my friend I enjoy it😂💯
Concur!
Been there, done that, twice. Ain’t no fun.
Love the story about y/ jackets and sharpening their stingers. In my region we had a young person put a live but dormant nest that thawed out in a barber shop where it kinda cleared the building.
Love this vdo
The bee dance does not work very well on an open tractor. Don't ask me how I know that. Also, those little buggers have zero sense of humor when you run over their nests with a rotary cutter on the back of an open tractor. ..... Could be a humming noise the blade makes that sounds to them like an insult or something.
Be be be be be be bees!!!, get away! Ouch, too late.
Yellowjackets/wasps, not as aggressive (to me, personally) as the Bald-faced hornets. Those mean bastards will launch before you ever even get close to their nest. They also tend to go for the eyes of their targets, I've been hit 8 or 10 times, always BF ("Bald-faced" not the other "BF") hornets, usually on the face; luckily, I wear safety glasses when I work in the bush and only had swollen cheeks and brow ridges, takes two days for vision to get back to "normal."
I tell everyone I work with out in the bush -- if I yell "RUN!" Don't ask who/what or why, just RUN!
The "Dance" is not funny -- watching or performing.
Another "likeroo" and Cheers from Linn County.
Those are terrible 😢
We had a skid trail we were skidding on for a little over a week. I was waiting for the cat to pull some logs up and happened to notice the cab of the machine rub on a low hanging fir limb...with a large active bald faced hornet nest hanging about 12 feet up from ground level. We had absolutely no idea it was there all that time. We had both been rubbing up against that limb with our open cab machines that entire time. Timber fallers had also previously been there falling trees in close proximity, and somehow missed it also.
By the time I noticed the nest it seemed as though they had gotten used to us working in the area, because they showed not even the slightest signs of aggression. I walked up close to the nest and they didn't even seem to notice me. Considering how hard we were rubbing that fir limb and moving the nest around, I was amazed.
I was mowing my pops lawn one day, ran over a yellow jacket nest I never knew was there, I had no idea they make their nests in the ground, next thing you know I see a swarm coming after me!!! Got stung 3 times..... Lesson learned !!!!
I knew an older gentleman who got into a nest of those little bastards while brushhogging. In an effort to get away from'em, he lept from his tractor but didn't clear it. He didn't survive.
This guy used to be in movies in the 80's.. He was in Silent Rage with Chuck Norris as the psycho super strength villain.
I was cutting firewood Saturday & got stung by a bee on my top lip.🤐
Snakes , wasp, bees, hornets and of course yellowjackets. They will help you you relive your younger days and you get the hokey hell out of there. There are people that say they help with arthritis!
Reminds me of my dad with a DR brush mower, funny for me, not so funny for him. 🤣
The words they scream are usually words they don’t use on Sunday morning sitting on a pew( even though they did use that word), but pain cause reflex reaction , and speech impairment . Just saying 🤔🤣🤣
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I know what you mean. I was pulling some brush and got into a yellow jacket nest plus I was mowing the yard and got it again lol.
Well, it must be a guy thing, I drove my lawn mower over a nest one summer, they went after my partner who was 15 feet away. 😂😂😂
Have you tried giving that bear a call?
I was so busy watching it I didn’t think to get its card or exchange numbers. If I see it again I will have to make sure I get its number.
Hurts like a bastard doesn't it.
Well, I'll be(e).
Krikey, do you really have rattle snakes !!!
And scorpions..
They are very aggressive about a meat sandwich also
And scorpions..
since we're on the subject: several years back i was building a trail through some bush when i spied a wasp nest hanging from a branch adout 10' up in a spruce tree. i had the bright idea (since i was going that way anyway) to raise the dozer bucket and dispose of it while driving under it. that was the one and only time i did the bee dance while sitting.
enjoy your videos btw.
Oh yeah ran them over with the mower a few times 😅 ouchy
I have TWO nests that I have dealt with this week, and one yet to be located hornet nest SOMEWHERE in a tree.
Last year I had the "sprinkles on top" of also having the big 1"+ european hornets. To be "not very aggressive" they sure chased me a lot. Haven't seen any yet this year. The yellowjackets are always the biggest menace. This time of year their nests have a good amount of vegetation over top so they are usually found the hard way.
been there done that