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If you ever get stung, get in a cold bathtub full of water with 1 cup bleach.
Many years ago our 2 year old was under a tree that was full of them and got multiple stings. Our MD neighbor said to put him in the tub immediately with the bleach and it worked. The welts went down within minutes.
aggiedent said:
The spines/hairs are like little hypodermic needles and the venom runs through the hollow center.
What brought them to my attention was my security camera over the door. When it went off this morning I brought the camera up on my android phone and it looked like a finger shaking the camera a little. I thought someone was f*****g with it and went out prepared to confront a problem. I saw the first two and got my home brew insect killer spray and went to work. I then started looking around and saw a couple of dozen crawlin' on the edge of the roof and on the garbage cans. I went out right after it rained this afternoon and found another twenty or so on the roof and above the door. The pale colored ones look like pinkie fingers crawlin' around.BrazosDog02 said:
Jesus Christ. FIFTY?
Dude you need to take some pest control measures. I got hit by one of these on my chicken coop a few years ago. I pressed against him with the back of my hand. **** those things. My son got hit by one when he was 5 or so.
Terrible sons of *****es.
MOTHER OF GOD.Alte Schule said:What brought them to my attention was my security camera over the door. When it went off this morning I brought the camera up on my android phone and it looked like a finger shaking the camera a little. I thought someone was f*****g with it and went out prepared to confront a problem. I saw the first two and got my home brew insect killer spray and went to work. I then started looking around and saw a couple of dozen crawlin' on the edge of the roof and on the garbage cans. I went out right after it rained this afternoon and found another twenty or so on the roof and above the door. The pale colored ones look like pinkie fingers crawlin' around.BrazosDog02 said:
Jesus Christ. FIFTY?
Dude you need to take some pest control measures. I got hit by one of these on my chicken coop a few years ago. I pressed against him with the back of my hand. **** those things. My son got hit by one when he was 5 or so.
Terrible sons of *****es.
Answered by own question... Schmidt hasn't done a study on them.Quote:
The go-to person for entomological pain is Dr. Justin Schmidt, best known as the author of the Schmidt Pain Index; a ranking system calculated from the agony caused by a wide variety of wasps and bees stinging him during his research. While Schmidt hasn't systematically studied caterpillars, he did say the pain of a caterpillar sting lasted longer than the pain of most wasp or bee stings.
I've been hit by red wasps & while painful, they don't sound near as bad as an asp. I'm sure some of y'all have been hit by a velvet ant (cow killer) and an asp. How did they compare? I may make it my personal mission to get the asp measured by the doctor so the little b*&tard can get the bad recognition it deserves.Quote:
Most insects that are characterized as having a pain level of 3 are wasps, including the red paper wasp, the metricus paper wasp, and the velvet ant (which is actually a wasp, not an ant).
Uncle Gunnysack said:
i revert to a child when i see these and avoid them at all costs. for all i know they dont even sting, i never had the balls to touch one and prove my parents wrong.
Love Gun said:
What are the all black ones that I see around all the time? I thought those were Asps and have been avoiding them, but maybe they aren't
