Wasp or Yellow Jacket?

[Irving]

What bothers me more is when people refer to being stung as being bitten. "OMG I just gots bit by a bee!"


Yellow Jackets are Wasps in the same way that Golden Retrievers are Dogs (same goes for "mud daubers" or hornets, etc)

Once, before my daughter knew better, she was walking by the park as some older girl got bit by a wasp. The older girl was yelling about getting stung and my kid goes, "Actually, wasps bite." They told her to go eat a dick. She got home and told me and I explained that she just learned an important lesson about minding her own business and sounding like a know it all. I think she was six at the time.

[eddiememphis]

Once, before my daughter knew better, she was walking by the park as some older girl got bit by a wasp. The older girl was yelling about getting stung and my kid goes, "Actually, wasps bite."

She is correct. Yellow jackets often bite to hold themselves in place so they can sting multiple times.

[sniper7]

I got stung last month in the hand closing one of my gates. Saw the little fuckers friend fly into the gate shortly after. Then I went on a killing spree all over the property. 4 cans of wasp and hornet killer later, easily over a hundred dead and I haven’t seen one around my property since

[sbgixxer]

Yellow jackets are the worst, not all wasps are huge a-holes.

[crays]

Was just walking back into my building after lunch, and as I was reaching up to scratch the edge of my nose a wasp flew between my hand and my face. The little bastard was trapped momentarily and I received a light sting just below my nose. Hope it doesn't swell up.

Happy Freaking Friday.

[Gman]

He was just trying to give you a little smooch and you got in the way.

I hope you don't have a reaction.

[thedave1164]

yellow jackets are flying aholes with stingers.

I always have benedryl around and sting pads.

I also have industrial strength hornet/wasp killer, pretty sure it would test positive for a chemical agent, one drop touches the yellow jacket its dead.

[eddiememphis]

I hung a trap today. Put a little sugar water in it and got three in 30 minutes. VENGEANCE IS MINE!!!

Just saw another fly by the window. This is much more entertaining than television.

[hatidua]

I get stung at work 3 or 4 times a week on average. They love to build nests under propane tank lids.

Rarely do I see a problem and the solution just a sentence apart

[FoxtArt]

There was some kind of new predatory wasp I saw for the first time a few years ago. I spray the yellow jackets all the time and thought I saw a YJ go under a sandstone rock. So I waited until night, flipped it and sprayed it - and this was with a now discontinued spray at true value that was the strongest I've ever knew of, instant-killed yellow jackets (less than 1 second to full stop).

These things immediately started buzzing and flying everywhere aggressively, at night. Panic at the disco, baby, scared the hell out of me. They were yellow jacket shaped, but kind of a sickly yellow/pale yellow striping. I had previously seen them intercepting flying ants mid-air and wondered what they were. The spray ofc killed them, but their ability to fight it was impressive.

The ones I give lots, and lots, and lots of respect to are those shiny-blue cricket killers. Never been stung by one, have heard the only thing worse is a bullet ant. Luckily, they are not assholes. I just don't want it to ever think I slighted it with something like an "ok" sign, so I give it lots and lots of space.