Really ramping up for those Tribulation Plagues!!
If you have to call the cops for meat bees... you might be a pussy.
We have two types hereabouts: the bigger ones, the Western yellowjackets, who will respond to a threat to the nest but not bother you otherwise. Then there's the mean little SOBs, maybe half their size, the German yellowjackets, who will sting you for no flippin' reason at all. They don't lost their stingers like bees do and can sting multiple times, and the little bastidges bite too. They'll nest in cracks in structures and can be very difficult to find. Spectracide is your friend.
Exodus 23:28
28 And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites from before you.
In this case, we’ll add the Sodomites to the list.
What’s up with using the American slang “yellowjacket” in the article instead of simply “wasp”? Those suckers pack a helluva sting though. I got stung on a knuckle once and it hurt so much I couldn’t help laughing in pain about how such a little thing could hurt so incredibly.
Apocrita, wasps in the broad sense, appeared in the Jurassic, and had diversified into many of the extant superfamilies by the Cretaceous; they appear to have evolved from the Symphyta.[4]
Fig wasps with modern anatomical features first appeared in the Lower Cretaceous of the Crato Formation in Brazil, some 65 million years before the first fig trees.[5]
The Vespidae include the extinct genus Palaeovespa, seven species of which are known from the Eocene rocks of the Florissant fossil beds of Colorado and from fossilised Baltic amber in Europe.[6]
Also found in Baltic amber are crown wasps of the genus Electrostephanus.[7][8]”
Maybe it's global warming causing this. 😀😆😄🇵🇭
Bay area = More Yellow Jackets please.
I was walking around inspecting my property when suddenly I felt like I had been shot in my right thigh.It hurt that bad.
It turns out that I had been stung twice by these yellow jackets.I ran as far away as I could but those mothers will pursue you.
Best things to do with them is kill them when you find them.
I never want to experience that pain again.
Wasps, hornets and yellow jackets do serve a purpose. They store yeast in their guts and allow yeast to survive winter temperatures. Without these stinging critters, there would be no beer, wine or fermented products like leavened bread. The late summer is when many fruits ripen. Grapes and ripe fruit attract hornets and yellow jackets and when they come to feast, they leave behind yeast.
We had a nest in our attic and one afternoon most of them found their way into our bedroom. I opened the door and the air was full of them.
DS 1 grabbed a can of “dairy bomb” fly spray that we had for the cows — a new one sitting on the kitchen counter, had not made it out to the barn yet — put one arm through the door and fogged the place. Bravest thing I ever saw because he hated those things. Had gotten stung in the face as a toddler and remembered it. The whole can took them out. What a mess tho.
The ones we have here build in places like eaves, attics, window frames and trees. There’s hornet and wasp spray that makes a stream, or fly spray that fogs.
As in TX, it’s a consequence of going from drought to wetter times.
I thought the had gone extinct before it started to rain again. Having them return was good sign.
My son and I would make YJ traps out of 2 liter soda bottles. We would hang them up and get our lawn chairs and watch the YJs around the trap. We would make bets on which ones were going to go in the trap. My wife saw us and wanted to know what we were doing. She said, “You are such hicks.” All we could say was “Yup.”
Is there some other, gentle and unaggressive type of Yellowjacket of which I’m unaware? They’re nasty under the best of circumstances, but particularly ornery when it’s raining and warm, in my exposure. It’s always fun to “find” a new underground nest of them with the lawnmower, too.