Mowing the grass last week, I ran over a nest of yellow jackets. They sure didn’t like the mower and sure did take it out on me...
Five nice welts on my legs and arms.
I see about a dozen yellow jacket bite/stings every year around this time. Their normal food source dies out (gnats, mostly) and they get very aggressive. Very easy to recognize the bite/sting pattern and the burning/itching pain and localized reaction.
No, sorry, you DON’T get a “broad-spectrum antibiotic prescription” for a hymenopteran sting, you get steroids.
At least if you see ME and not the nurse-practitioners who pass themselves off as knowledgeable practitioners of 21st century medicine.
I ruined a mower doing the same thing, unintentionally mowing over a yellow jacket nest. They swarmed, started stinging, I jumped off to get away from them and the mower rolled over and over down an embankment into the woods. Got a good twelve stings, mostly on my left ankle and leg. Couldn’t wear a shoe for several days due to swelling.