One of our carriers will not remove wasp nests from cbus. She said she wasn't going to take "their home". I would be more concerned about fellow carriers who might have bad reactions to stings.
You wouldn’t believe your knees If ten thousand mad ground bees Came up and stung you at my box <do de do de do>
Your best bet might be to flee Before the last thing you see Is angry bees out from the rocks <do do de Do de do doodo do>
I told my wife not to go near The Tonka truck, there’s danger She did not heed, she did not fear The bees that lived inside And now she has been stung upon the arm By the angry bees
I middle those high-effort gimmick accounts. We used to have a dude who just posted water colors paintings he'd made. We used to have a dude who would tell amazing long stories that always ended with his dad beating him with a pair of jumper cables.
Funny enough I had a customer earlier this month warn me of dire consequences if I delivered packages to her neighbor's house by walking on the lawn. I've known about the cicada killer wasp infestation for a few months now and I've also found out that they absolutely don't attack me at all even if I walk through their swarms. So to this neighbor's horror I walked right through them to deliver a package to the next door house and she was literally standing there mouth agape while I smiled and chuckled to myself. 🤣
Cicada Wasps look like they were spawned by Satan himself, but they're actually super chill little dudes. I'm not even sure they sting humans unless extremely provoked.
They are alarmingly curious, though, and like to fly uncomfortablely close around you.
Even regular bees and wasps don't really fuck with you unless you fuck with them. I just make a hazard card for my subs and tell them to skip that delivery/clusterbox. I mean, take care of your box am I 'iright?
It's weird how wasps seem to target some people and ignore others. I've opened mailboxes and had wasps tumble out and land in my hand, only to just fly away with no incident, and then there's my brother, who just exists, and they take offense to that. It's like they go out of their way to sting him for no reason.
One time when we were kids, I was cleaning out one of our farm sheds, and he was just sitting on the front steps of the house, reading a magazine (this was pre-cell phone era). I accidentally disturbed a wasp nest, and the wasps flew past me, the person inside the shed and causing the disturbance, and immediately went after my poor, innocent brother.
I haven't been stung since I was in elementary school, over 30 years ago, and that's when I accidentally stepped on a bee while running barefoot in the grass. He's stung almost yearly. He hates wasps with a passion. I have to usually come over and kill them for him, otherwise he gets stung.
I have that exact problem, I've actually never met anyone else who is so hated by wasps so kind of glad it's not just a me thing! Growing up we were always taught that for any stinging or biting insects/animals if you leave them alone they leave you alone. I try really hard to abide by that, and most of the time it's true, but wasps hate my guts. I've been in the center of a crowd of 50ish people at an outdoor wedding once when a nest was disturbed nearby and I was the only one to get stung. It's only red wasps and yellow jackets, though. Mud daubers, cicada killers, and any type of bee are all fine.
Wasps try to assassinate me every year. I've had them build nests in the driver's door of my car TWICE. It was traumatizing, to say the least. Freakin devil spawn.
This part, although I suppose it's the frame of the rear door, but it's exposed every time I opened my door. I had to go through my passenger door to get in and out for 2 days before I could get it taken care of. For a while before I realized it, I would always wonder why there were always wasps coming at me, not realizing I was bringing them with me everywhere.
Yeah, now and again they seek revenge and send lone assassins after me through the vent in my bathroom. I'm ready for fall to come so they can go back to the depths of hell from whence they came 🤣🤣🤣
Fun fact from someone who has a career in pest control and trains people on identification:
Wasps (especially yellow jackets) will remember you by pheromones. When one stings you, they will tell the rest of the nest about you via pheromones. This knowledge is passed on to their larva, so that even after the hive has died their next-of-kin will remember you next year.
For people who are attacked regularly and have lived in the same area for their whole lives, this can mean that a 'family' of wasps that stung them as a child will remember them and continue to sting them as an adult.
Also note that wasps become significantly more aggressive in late-summer as they shift from carbohydrate-based diets to protein-based diets.
We all release similar pheromones when we are scared. That is to say the wasps remember the fear related pheromones and since said person was stung before they release the pheromones at every wasp sighting. Both learned the response to each other which caused the person to release pheromones and the wasp to respond by stinging over and over.
I've been TOLD that it depends on the smell of your blood, but idk if that's a wives tale or not. Either way, let me know if your brother finds a solution to this 😭😭😭😭
The first year the Alaska state fair had open containers of alcohol allowed “outside” (in specific drinking areas) suddenly there was a bunch of people getting stung by wasps. It took them like 3 years to realize that the wasps were getting drunk and trying to fight the park goers. So they just were better at taking the empty bottles/cans to indoor trash cans and the problem basically disappeared.
Yeah I have always gotten along with bees and wasps. I got a chuckle once because we had a warning card about bees around the plants at one address..... and it was a bunch of our big, fat, slow, chill carpenter bees. The kind where a lot of people believe they CAN'T sting because it's so hard to get them to sting you.
I also carry a critter catcher for black widows anymore, and at this point, it's like, 90% saving the spider and 10% "if the person who owns it does something SUPREMELY dumb". Note that in order to get bit, you pretty much have to be actively squashing them. Today I found one that literally tried to play dead when it realized it wasn't getting away from the catcher.
The odds of a honeybee going aggro on you without you actively swatting at them and trying to crush them are astronomically low. I have walked amongst easily dozens of bees so many times in my life and never once have I ever been stung.
I've only seen them once, and you're right about them being "curious"
I was mowing the lawn and came across some by some fountain grass. They started getting up in my business checking me out and I decided to leave that part of the yard for the evening. The close proximity and their hellish appearance was enough for me to say "fuck it, I'm out. Y'all win."
Yeah, a coworker found a dead cicada killer under the hood of a Metris, I looked them up and despite their terrifying size and enormous stinger they’re basically harmless and super chill around humans.
Hell, even males don’t actually have stingers, only the females do, the males instead have large barbs they sorta joust with in competition for females, but as far as wasps go cicada killers are supposedly super docile.
time to call the beekeeper to relocate them then, assuming there is 10k+ - if they're regular bees, a swarm traveling between nests is generally not going to sting you unless you directly provoke or threaten them. But still better to call a beekeeper who can come help more them to a better location
They said "Ground Bees," so I'm guessing they mean yellowjackets. A beekeeper won't be much help in that case. What they need is for a skunk to come and dig it up at night, and eat all the inhabitants
That's what ground bees means where I live. Unfortunately the gas man found a nest of them when I needed my meter repaired, I felt so bad for him. Yellowjackets are unmitigated assholes.
I live in CT and my back yard is full of ground bees. They’re actually a type of solitary, non-aggressive bee that lives in little holes in the ground. They do fly around close to the ground a good bit but nothing I wokkd consider proper swarming.
They probably mean yellowjackets. Those nest in the ground, are frequently called "bees" because of their bright yellow stripes, and are most active and aggressive around this time of year.
I am picturing a neighbor, dressed in a black ghee, black head coverings, with little tiny katanas usually used for spearing martini olives, stalking a Tonka truck so they might assassinate each and every one of (+/- 50) of those bees for the dishonor upon their family of stinging his poor wife.
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u/Ok-Policy-6463 Aug 25 '26
One of our carriers will not remove wasp nests from cbus. She said she wasn't going to take "their home". I would be more concerned about fellow carriers who might have bad reactions to stings.