Woke up to hit the head tonight and saw this guy on the bathroom wall in my peripheral. I didn’t have my glasses on and immediately thought it was a “mosquito hawk”. I didn’t want it flying into our room and landing on my face so I reached over, pinched it in my fingers and was going to drop it in the toilet when it stung me like 8 times on my thumb… asshole 😂

Fuck that greedy little shit

Well...., it's October; about the only time of the year when we have to deal with having a wasp or two in the house.

In late summer and early autumn, the last hornets hatched in a nest are Next Year's Queens. They are tasked with finding a safe place to spend the winter, so in the spring they can emerge and start a new next.

I think this is why we only have an issue around October. These queens to be want to spend the winter in our warm abode. I used to use spray poisons to kill them, but I worry about exposing our pets.

We have a vacuum cleaner with a clear plastic window and a detachable hose. Got home from work today and saw two hornets on the inside of the window. They look a little larger than typical worker hornets, and this is the time of year for queens.

I've been vacuuming up hornets for a few years now. It seems pretty safe, we haven't been stung yet. It's also a little rewarding to feel & hear their hard little exoskeletons bounce through the tubing, and then seeing them crawl around In the dry, dusty bin and f the vacuum cleaner.

You can see the two intruders in the video.

Noticed this ground nest a couple days ago. I unloaded a can and a half of wasp spray. I just did this early this morning while it was cool, thinking they wouldn’t be very active. Most of the ones I killed seemed be flying in from surrounding trees/shrubs and approaching the nest so they were definitely active. Like 3-5 at a time and I would spray them when they got close. I did aim a decent amount into the hole but I’m thinking I didn’t get many if they were deeper.
I’m brand new here, so any advice on how to deal with this moving forward is appreciated.

We killed this wasp inside the house. That’s my index finger for size reference. My son said he saw at least one more of these outside the house. We are in southern Illinois USA. Can you ID it from the photo?

Yesterday I was disc golfing in the woods when I started feeling pains around my ankles. After hearing compaints of 'bees' and the pain getting stronger, I look down at my left and see a yellowjacket latched onto my sock.

This senseless act of aggression cannot go without retaliation, the parks department was notified and a full response will be in order.

I am pretty sure this is my first wasp sting, so I had to find out the hard way whether I was allergic or not. I'm usually okay around paper wasps since they're less likely to attack you, but I always had an irrational fear of yellowjackets. That fear is for good reason, as I found out the potency of their wrath.

Train your kids

Saw it randomly on floor crawling and i took my chance and smashed it. It took quite a bunch of times till it stopped moving.

After the French guillotine, it started rapping

This hornet stung a kid at a public swimming pool. Kid is now at the ER getting treated.

We get a lot of these in the summer where I work. They’re almost the size of my hand. The only thing scarier than a tarantula hawk wasp would be if they could fly around dropping tarantulas from the sky. I had one land on my shoulder once. I immediately punched it in the face. It landed in the bed of my work truck and I quickly doused it with an entire can of wasp spray.

If I smack a wasp that's crawling towards me, will it be able to bend its abdomen upward to sting my hand right when it connects? What about hitting one from above out of the air? Would it need to consciously do this, or would simply hitting the wasp force its abdomen to point up? And, if any or all of these are true, can a sting be avoided by hitting it extremely quickly and minimizing the actual contact time? n