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It's no secret that Earth has got a lot of problems and, if you live here, you already know that I am talking about wasps. There are so many wasps here. Each one is a problem. According to recent reports out of China, 21 people have died as a result of wasp stings over the past three months in the province of Shaanxi alone. It might be time to just pack up our bags and return to the moons we came from. Might be time to turn Earth over to the wasps.

Wasps? I hope they aren't all so poisonous.

This fall has been particularly bad for wasps here in ND. They are finding ways to get into the house where they hide in bath towels & bedding stacked in linen closets or behind hanging pictures or folded clothes waiting to be put away. I found ten on the window over the kitchen sink one afternoon! Not sure how they are getting inside.

The last couple of times I was stung, I had an allergic reaction. But, these Chinese wasps seem even more evil!

buffalo_girl wrote:Wasps? I hope they aren't all so poisonous.

This fall has been particularly bad for wasps here in ND. They are finding ways to get into the house where they hide in bath towels & bedding stacked in linen closets or behind hanging pictures or folded clothes waiting to be put away. I found ten on the window over the kitchen sink one afternoon! Not sure how they are getting inside.

The last couple of times I was stung, I had an allergic reaction. But, these Chinese wasps seem even more evil!

The unseasonably warm and dry weather in the region this fall – traditionally the normal breeding season for hornets – and continued human encroachment into hornet breeding grounds have been suggested as possible reasons for the recent rash of attacks.

Those are huge!

Mine aren't that big, but I did kill about 30 of them in the house, yesterday. I should probably just 'bomb' the entire house, but I dislike breathing the residue for days afterward.

buffalo_girl wrote:Those are huge!

Mine aren't that big, but I did kill about 30 of them in the house, yesterday. I should probably just 'bomb' the entire house, but I dislike breathing the residue for days afterward.

Our wasps are more delicately built. Paper wasps they're called. We coexist with them, basically. I don't think my wife or I have ever killed any in the house. Saw one flying around our kitchen sink just a couple of days ago.


The wasps I don't really care for are yellow-jackets. Very aggressive and their sting really hurts and ALWAYS makes whatever part of me they've stung swell up 2-3 times the natural size. I've been stung on my feet a couple of times and can't put on my shoes. Stung on my hands and it swells up looking like a club. Yuck. A pox on 'em.

We keep bees and they get really aggressive toward evening and if you're putting a honey super back on the stack and happen to squash a few, look out. A pheromone is given off that the rest of the bees respond to making them even more aggressive.

Bgood wrote:

buffalo_girl wrote:Wasps? I hope they aren't all so poisonous.

This fall has been particularly bad for wasps here in ND. They are finding ways to get into the house where they hide in bath towels & bedding stacked in linen closets or behind hanging pictures or folded clothes waiting to be put away. I found ten on the window over the kitchen sink one afternoon! Not sure how they are getting inside.

The last couple of times I was stung, I had an allergic reaction. But, these Chinese wasps seem even more evil!

The unseasonably warm and dry weather in the region this fall – traditionally the normal breeding season for hornets – and continued human encroachment into hornet breeding grounds have been suggested as possible reasons for the recent rash of attacks.

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That picture is fake, right? RIGHT?!

'Killer hornets' kill 42 in China

Beijing (AFP) - Swarms of hornets have killed 42 people in northwestern China in recent months, state media said Thursday, as temperatures rise and development drives the stinging insects into cities.

In this thread we all get a new nightmare.....


Those wasps are bigger than the birds outside my window....insane...

They are big, and real. They are called "tigerhead wasps".

Are they shipped to the US in boxes of Chinese goods?

buffalo_girl wrote:Are they shipped to the US in boxes of Chinese goods?

Undoubteably.

I would suggest those electric mosquito rackets for protection. Or smash them and risk getting stung, but DON'T let them sting your head/ face/ neck. Anyway, hopefully they won't be around in the US. Killer bees are bad enough...

Scary. Probably a triple dose of benydryl administered right away wouldn't have had much effect. Doesn't sound like anaphylactic shock.

Scary. Probably a triple dose of benydryl administered right away wouldn't have had much effect.

I was stung on my hand by one of our local wasps day before yesterday. They make an attempt to winter indoors every fall. This one barely got its stinger in as it hit a bone or a tendon just below my finger. I immediately put a mix of bentonite & charcoal on the entire back of my hand.

My hand was swollen so badly by yesterday, the skin began cracking, but besides some aching up as far as my elbow, today all I have is a little puffiness in the hand. I keep putting my clay mixture on it which seems to draw out the venom - or whatever it is.

I've had wasp stings before I started using charcoal & bentonite that swelled the affected area so badly and for so long, I lost feeling in that area for months.

I've put out wasp traps and I kill as many as I can find that have managed to get indoors, but I don't believe I have ever seen as many as this fall. Thank goodness, they don't 'swarm' in groups like bees. They are very solitary, terribly aware and surly. They hide in stacks of laundry, in linen closets, in rolled up sleeping bags.

I've heard baking soda works too, which most people have on hand. It also draws out the poison.