Wasp or Yellow Jacket?

[eddiememphis]

A Yellow Jacket is a wasp but not all wasps are Yellow Jackets.

There was an insect buzzing my ear today and I waved my hand to scare it away. I hit and caught it so it stung my ring finger at the knuckle fold nearest my hand.

I called it a little fucker as i flicked it to the ground. I had a bit of it heiney stuck in my hand so I thought it might be a bee.

Nope.

Yellow Jackets have a barbed stinger that may be pulled out of the little asshole's body.

It burned a lot and swelled a bit. The knuckle still hurts nine hours later.

Nasty little monster.

[Irving]

Was just having this conversation with buddies yesterday about how it seems like whether an insect is referred to as a wasp or a yellow jacket depends on where the person doing the naming is from. I'm curious where hornets come in as well.

[Irving]

Here we go: https://www.howtogettingridofbees.co...kets-vs-wasps/

Sounds like it was a yellow jacket that got you.

Yellow jackets versus hornets is a fascinating comparison. Yellow jackets cause more nuisance than hornets because they find sweets simply irresistible. Meaning that you need to watch out for your glass of fruit juice. This is very important as they have probably visited the garbage dump looking for food before coming to you. Hornets feed on other live insects, meaning they can be actually beneficial.Bites are hard to deal with everywhere. Yellowjackets sting more frequently than hornets, but those are much less painful, and they usually die after stinging as their stingers get caught in the skin. Hornets can repeatedly sting humans as their stings are not barbed, unlike yellow jackets. This leads to human deaths now and then.

[Irving]

It does bother me when people refer to wasps as bees. I've never studied either species in my life, but have known the difference since I was in elementary school. I don't understand how it's that difficult to tell a wasp from a bee. Then again, it seems like 90% of any spiders I see, someone is telling me that it's a brown recluse.

[Bailey Guns]

It does bother me when people refer to wasps as bees.

They do that here all the time. Drives me up the wall.

Yellow jackets are a huge problem here. I get stung at work 3 or 4 times a week on average. They love to build nests under propane tank lids. They're also capable of stinging multiple times. Little bastards will bite you to hang on then zap you with their stingers...sometimes more than once.

[MED]

A couple of years ago my son was helping me move rocks on my lot wearing shorts and a t-shirt. Well, one of the large rocks was on top of a yellow jacket nest. He was hit over a dozen times when he picked up the rock to move it. Thankfully, he didn't have a severe reaction to it; just some swelling and nausea.

[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

[Zundfolge]

It does bother me when people refer to wasps as bees.

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)

[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.