YELLOWJACKETS

YELLOWJACKETS ARE A SMALL HORNET THAT WILL NEST IN THE GROUND AND ONCE YOU BOTHER THEM THEY WILL ATTACK YOU TO DEFEND THE NEST.IN THIS VIDEO I SHARE A EVENT THAT HAPPEND TO ME . IT IS A NOT UNCOMMON EVENT TO STEP ON A YELLOWJACKET NEST AND GET LOTS OF STINGS. I AM TRYING TO SHARE SOME WOODS WISDOM ON HOW TO DEAL WITH YELLOWJACKETS AND WHAT TO DO IF YOU ARE ATTACKED.

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[BLACKIETHOMAS]

hi guys..this was a close call i hope you can learn from my mistake thanks for watching safe journeys

[briarsmoke]

3 years ago I was wandering along through some old downed timber while deer hunting and managed to step over a piece if wood and right onto one of those nests. Before I knew it they were all over me and I was off and running, slapping at the ones chewing on me with one hand, trying to not drop my .270 in the other hand while setting a land speed record for an old fat guy. I ended up with at least 20 stings and had to go to the doctor for prednisone because I was swelling up so bad, and I’m not allergic to em. Those suckers are no joke.

[timlacy]

Blackie, I'm 60 year old and more than my share of Yellow Jacket nest mowing, bush hogging , cutting wood, hunting and scouting for deer hunting. Thanks for passing on the knowledge and craft. Tim L.

[walterashley]

Used to be allergic, until some stupid next door campers threw a stick at an in ground horror story.

Flew right by me, but did get 4-5 on my back with an odd, weird unfelt thing walking the few hundred yards back to camp.
Older days,
Still got a scar from my dad cutting my eyebrow after walking over a nest.
Super hero scar!!!!

[Pguy]

Good video Blackie. Som free advice from a man with lots of tome on a mower. Shut the tractor off and set the brake before you get off to run. A mower is way more dangerous than Yellowjackets! You have to discipline yourself to do this before encountering a swarm. Or stay on and drive out. I’m too poor to buy a cab tractor but it would be nice.

[jeffbodeen]

1977 Long Island NY me and 2 brothers rode our bikes down a trail about 200 yds into the woods, parked our bikes and were playing in the woods. I jumped off a branch onto a rusted 55 gallon drum and the yellow jackets came out. We ran but I must have ran faster and got out of the woods on my bike with a full wig full of bees! My house was around the corner from the woods and I must have been screaming because everybody was coming outside and I was told just about my whole upper body was covered with bees like a horror movie. My friends had to be carried out of the woods by the Fathers in the neighborhood and spent 3 days in the hospital. My parents told me they were pulling bees of me by the handful and neither got any stings. I probably only had a dozen stings. That was one hell of a Sunday morning! Like it was yesterday I can remember riding the bike and feeling the top of my head and there was no hair only bees. I couldn't see skin on my arms. They were between my fingers. BAD DREAMS for a long time.

[forestgnome]

Yellow jackets are a constant bane to hay haulers! WAAAAH! Thanks again for another informative video! Kindest regards and best wishes to you and yours! Pink.

[richardlobb]

Good informative video, Thanks, ,, keep'em coming

[lewisward]

We have plenty in New York. They also live in standing dead trees.

[choirboyzcutleryoutdoors]

Growing up in South Georgia and NE Florida I know all to well about them suckers!! Great info and so glad you are ok!!

[anthonydexter]

The thing about a wasp or as you call it a yellow jacket is it will sting you multiple times, not nice. For what it's worth vespa is Italian for wasp. Great video and I'm sure will be helpful for many hundreds of people

[kenbillings]

Blackie several years ago - I was living in Northwestern Upstate New York east of Watertown had dealings with yellow jackets. I awoke one morning to finds many yellow jacket nests distoryed in the yard and several yards around. It seems the skunks in the area had a feast that night. All over the yard there was pieces of the nests where the skunks had dug up the nests and ate the yellow jackets, the eggs and anything else they found. Before this I had found many nests around the yard the hard way mowing or using a weed eater. And yes I got stung many times. The only nests they didn't get were the ones the ones under the wood siding on the house. And that is a story for another time.
Ken

[gregknight]

I got on top of a ground nest while shredding with a tractor/bush hog. One left a stinger on the top of my ear which was immediate bad pain . When I pulled the stinger out it had a poison bulb on it which injected into my ear . I am very allergic and the whole side of my head swelled badly . Wound up in the emergency room that night . Thanks for everybody’s story . Bad times !

[johnboleyjr.]

About 6 years ago, I was doing some clearing with my tractor to prep for a garden. It was earlier in the day, and all of a sudden, my world lit up and went chaotic. I thought I was being shot, very many times. Turns out, I was between two Yellow Jacket nests, or maybe one big one? There were easily a hundred of them, and they were very pissed about the Brush Hog. I manged to get the tractor shutdown before leaping off of it, but there were some around the ignition, and they too got me. I ran like I wasn't in fact a T&P DV, who could, under normal circumstances, barely walk and spent most of the time in a wheelchair. I'm not allergic to them, but an unfortunate side effect of being stung, is that it activates my Ankylosing Spondylitis, and other Rheumatoid issues. I was bed bound for a month afterwards. Yellow Jackets are definitely to be respected.

[MichaelR]

Good video , thanks for sharing , God bless !

[johnburgin]

Too many stories that are funny now, from an older cousin to my eldest son dragging his heels . Fortunately the chainsaw didn’t get my cousin. Temperamental little fellas . Thanks for the memories

[jeremymoses]

Ive been covered head to toe twice by the same hive rescuing my humvee from them. On my face, up my sleeves, down my shirt... you get the idea. My vehicle had our chow and water on it which is why they were out there in the desert. NOT ONE STING, SCOTT FREE. just leave them be, stay calm, and keep your movements and breathing slow and measured.

[markgibbs]

You were really lucky Blackie. The netting surely saved you.

[bombproofbushcraft]

That could have been a BAD day! Hornet, Yellowjackets, wasps and all them insects are "avoid at any cost" hazards.

[williamdroom]

We have them in East Tennessee. I mowed over one in my yard and thought I'd been shot in the back. I went to Lowe's and got some spray that shoots 12 feet. Went back that night and sprayed the hole full.