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I go around and knock paper wasp nests down and take the grubs and immature wasps out to toss in my aquariums.

The cichlids I caught in the wild will grab the semi-adults and pull them underwater until they know they are dead. The domestic raised ones just grab them and eat them.

Clearly the wild ones know exactly what they are and that they sting.

If a few little bug bites or bee stings killed you,no one would be living here,lol.

I've often dug into yellow jackets nests while excavating with my backhoe. Several times I had to abandon the machine until I could sneak back in after dark and wipe them out.

I couldn’t begin to guess how many hornets and yellow jacket nests I’ve bush hogged. Man do they get mad. Oddly enough, hay equipment rarely bothers them. Yellow jackets that is. Only been stung twice with hay equipment, but more times than I can count while bush hogging. One year I ran over seven hornets nests with the bush hog. Usually throw it in high gear and take off. A few may get me but they don’t chase too far from the nest.

We're finding all kinds of yellow jackets and Bald Faced hornets in every log pile at the mill. About 1 or two a day. I know when too, when I see my Prentice loader with a clam full of logs hanging in mid air, and no operator on the pedestal....Give them a few minutes to settle. Then back at it. One real bad nest, we soaked a couple burlap bags with oil, lit on fire or smolder. Picked up with the clam and dropped on the nest. Flying butt holes they are...

That's rough, parking the bush hog on the nest while spinning, just makes them dizzy mad!

I have 5 cicada killer burrows in my backyard right now. I need to get a comfortable chair to sit in to watch them. The holes are as big around as my thumb.

Pack strings or trail rides are way more fun than that. Big horse wreck; bucking, snorting, farting, cussing, horses off in all directions crashing through the timber. Good way to get hurt.

I have a hummingbird feeder hanging by our patio. I noticed every time a hummingbird stopped to take a drink, it would be attacked by yellow jackets! So, I pulled the hummingbird feeder and replaced it with a yellow jacket trap I got. By dark, I had almost 3 dozen dead yellow jackets in it. I hung the hummingbird feeder back up and so far so good for the hummingbirds.

European Hornet, usualy not aggressive unless you disturb the nest, got stung 5 times on the head last year, 7 times on the arms and torso a month ago, very painful for a few hours but then do not itch or get sore like yellowjacket stings. They fly all night long so they will come to a light at night.

Looks like a bedbug from East Texas.

Your the opposite of me. Never even swell or itch from yellow jackets or any bee for that matter. An hour later you almost can't tell where I was stung.
This one still itching.

I'm not going to Texas. Lol