Wonderful feeling earlier today whipping through twisties when I feel a stinging sensation just under the chin strap on the lid. Kept digging in there, thought that the strap was catching part of my 3 day no-shave stubble. With a cage on my tail at around 45 mph, and no place to pull over the stinging moved down to my shoulders. I leaned over, looked in the mirror, and there was the nastiest looking wasp I ever did see, and mind you, I've seen a lot in my 50 years, crawling on my skin, just above the collar of my t-shirt. Bastardo got me 4 times. Started to feel dizzy and found a place to pull over to put some alcohol on the welts.

Life on the road eh, taking the good with the bad. Yeah, the little bugger got me eh, eh eh.

does vodka or whiskey work better?  

vodka smells better for sure

A wasp stinger is a modification of her sex organs.
The reason she won't stop stinging is cause to her, it feels good!

Phelonius

Man,that sucks!Unfortunately,I do know they won't stop stinging.I've been told for most people it's pretty painful.That would have been a shot with an epi-pen and a trip to the hospital for me.

Phelonius wrote on 06/11/10 at 15:58:58:



sounds familiar . . .  

Yeah, wasp stings are bad. My wife got one on her back one time and it walked across (OK maybe it ran, I don't know) and before she could get it off stung her about a dozen times or more. Before it swelled up, it looked like someone had run a sewing machine on her. I'm having trouble now keeping from laughing (it was funny to me).

I had one hit me in the helmet one time, and I thought, well that's going to make a mess, then I felt something crawling around my scalp. So I pulled to the side, tore my helmet off, and there the wasp was, crawling around stinging the heck out of the helmet liner. Lucky for me she didn't end up feet down on my scalp. Anyway, she flew off seemingly no worse for the wear. The the front vents on my helmet is only about 3-4 mm across - she was bigger than that. Must have been a real santa clause/chimney moment.

I am not sure if this works on Wasps. Yet it does on Bee stings. Take a cigarette if you have them. Break it and wet the tobacco and apply to sting area. This takes the sting as well as helps with the swelling.

I personally know this works on again bee stings. This is just one of the lessons I remember from my loving Grandmother and have passed on down the line..

When it comes to insects, I prefer the bee family.  They don't bother you unless you actively disturb them.





Plus they hang out around some pretty photogenic backgrounds!