Wasp Stings

[Elines]

I decided not to get one of these - maybe I should have ...............


http://www.purpleturtle.co.uk/acatalog/After_Bite_Solace.html (the Ben's one at £5.95)


From an earlier thread at http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=42590, but with link and price updated (no connection etc)

 

[Ruvio]

We crack open an egg, peel off that membrane just under the shell, and put it over stings. I don't know why, but it works really well. One of those rare home remedies that is truly effective.

I'll try it in the morning thanks mate
would do it now, but we won the ashes, i've had a few jars, and i dont want egg albumen everywhere

 

[Oblio13]

I'll try it in the morning thanks mate
would do it now, but we won the ashes, i've had a few jars, and i dont want egg albumen everywhere

I've never tried it on an old sting, only fresh ones, so I'm looking forward to hearing if it works or not.

 

[torc]

In my place of work wasps started to appear for the first time last week.
Not one all summer and then swarms all of a sudden. Yesterday I picked up at least 12 dead ones from the window ledges where none were the day before. My friend killed 6 himself last Friday just around where he sits..
About 50% of the wasps were normal size but the rest were smaller than usual.
I work in the center of town and last summer wasps were rare, does the sudden appearance of so many indicate a new nest nearby?
Happy trails...torc.

 

[Brown Bear]

Does anyone know how to get rid of a wasp nest, without paying a pest controller?

 

[Ruvio]

Id say the safest way is to get a pest controller to do it

then leg it without paying?

 

[javi]

They're literally all over the tree in our back garden (beech I think) which is producing sap like no tomorrow - you can actually see it dripping off the branches when you look against the sunlight. Not a pleasing situation for me as I found out several years ago the hard way that I have an anaphylactic reaction to bee/ wasp stings. Buggers haven't stopped me yet - although I have to have my Epipen and mobile phone near me all the time :-(

 

[TechGadgetSteve]

Does anyone know how to get rid of a wasp nest, without paying a pest controller?

cover it in diesel, you only have to get it on the outside as the wasps will actualy carry it in as they enter. i have had a couple of nests this year and could only get one with diesel as the other was in a crack in sone brick work (diesel will still work just hardey to get it in there) so for that one i just spayed it with some raid (fly spray from pound land) this killed a cople of them and calmed it down a bit but a couple of days later it was back and seemed to be worse i i sprayed it again and then when it calmed down i filled the crack in with cement.

 

[ForgeCorvus]

Anyone had any joy with those inflatable fake wasp's nests?

About three weeks ago I was at an event (larp) and when we came to pack up I noticed a bottle half full of apple juice on the ground near one of the tents, an hour later it had an inch and a half of dead wasps in it

 

[Salix]

This year I have been mostly getting stung.........Wasps, Clegs, Horseflies and mother flipping mozzies, i normally dont get bitten that often, but this year for some reason.....at this moment in time i have;

2 Wasp stings (Itching like you wouldnt believe)

2 Cleg bites, like eggs on my arms

6 Mozzie bites,

I'me rather looking foreward to meeting an Adder as i know it's going to happen lol

Mark

 

[Oblio13]

Does anyone know how to get rid of a wasp nest, without paying a pest controller?

I tape a propane torch to a long stick and burn them. You only have to get it close for a moment, the heat incapacitates them almost instantly.

Even more satisfying is blowing those big white-faced hornet nests into confetti with a shotgun.

 

[Ruvio]

I got stung again today..on the chin this time
it's bally painful, but! i've discovered that Burn plasters from tesco's work a treat

 

[Nickthechippy]

Someone told me that wasp and bee stings actually reduce your immunity to .... wasp and bee stings. So the more you get stung the less immunity you have to them.

Is that right?

Nick

 

[Colin.W]

when I worked part time in a cafe it used to make me jump when wasps flew into the electric fly zapper, instead of the little crack you get with the flys, when the wasps hit the electrode they go off like a cap gun,

 

[Barn Owl]

Someone told me that wasp and bee stings actually reduce your immunity to .... wasp and bee stings. So the more you get stung the less immunity you have to them.

Is that right?

Nick

I think it is Nick,not too sure but I think so.

 

[Colin.W]

I dont know about wasp stings but as a keep amateur apiarist I know that with bee stings over time most bee keepers develop a natural resistance to the stings unless they have a massive multiple attack, in some cases where people have an adverse reaction to bee venom it can trigger an alergic resistance so next time they get stung it develops into AS (Anaphylactic shock) although AS can result from the first ever sting

 

[MikeE]

My wife, 3yr old daughter and father in law - all stung in last week!
Anthisan seems to work, well it did for wife and daughter. Father in law not so effective and he was stung on his right hand (book illustrator and of course, right handed!)
Any surefire cure would be gratefully received!:AR15firin

 

[Sleepy Weasel]

Am I right in hearing that beekepers don't get arthritis? Something in the sting helps protect against arthiritis in later life, can't remember where I heard this, maybe from the same pile about stinging yourself with nettles to ease rheumatism.

I bought some beeswax from a beekeper who was selling up after a lifetime of keeping bees, lovely fella, not a tooth left in his head.........

 

[Bushwhacker]

Here's the reason why they're about at this time of year.

Previous to this time of year, they have been killing garden pests and bringing them back to the nest for the larvae to feed on - the larvae are carniverous. In turn the larvae produce a sweet liquid which the wasps feed on.

At this time of year the larvae leave the nest and there's no more sugary fluid for the wasps. They then have to go in search of it - orchards, hedgerows, bins, picnics, etc.
This is why we deem them as a pest, when in fact they have good reason for it.
I quite like them, very clever creatures IMO and I've never been stung.................yet!

 

[rawshak]

I accidentally disturbed an underground nest at the bushmoot this year and got swarmed. I ended up with thirty-two stings all together... Luckily I medicated it with beer and was fine