I've just had a rather unpleasant experience involving a wasps nest.
I was out on a little walk trying to catch the last of what little daylight we've had today when I came across a lode of rubbish. I thought it was a little odd since it was mostly made up of carrier-bags but I went round picking up the litter anyway and putting it into one of the bags. Having just picked up one of the last pieces of rubbish I saw something ells on the ground and walked over to investigate. Bad move! It turned out to be a disturbed wasps nest full of very angry wasps! Luckily I realized what it was early enough and was already running by the time the cloud of vengeful insects emerged but I wasn't fast enough to escape altogether unharmed. Once I had reached a safe distance I dealt with the two wasps that had latched onto me and counted the half dozen stings they had inflicted. But then I had the half mile or so walk back home trying to ignore the pane
. It's been nearly a decade since the last time I've been stung by anything and I'd forgotten how much it hurts:aargh4: .
I'm just $orry for the pore sod who trod on it the first time, it looked like a responsible person had been going round collecting litter when they stepped on the nest and dropped there bags of rubbish as they were fleeing. I came on the seen from the other direction and so the trail of stuff inexorably led me to the nest. I just hope there ok and not allergic or anything .
Needless to say a antihistamine cream is urgently going into the mini first-aide kit I'm putting together for short walks. If I hadn't seen the nest and had walked right into it things could have been really nasty.
The hole thing got me wondering whether there where any herbs or other wild remedies for bee or wasp stings, like dock-leaves for stinging nettles, or techniques for escaping a swarm of bees or wasps?
I'm sitting here typing this still itching and saw but also grateful that it wasn't allot worse.
I was out on a little walk trying to catch the last of what little daylight we've had today when I came across a lode of rubbish. I thought it was a little odd since it was mostly made up of carrier-bags but I went round picking up the litter anyway and putting it into one of the bags. Having just picked up one of the last pieces of rubbish I saw something ells on the ground and walked over to investigate. Bad move! It turned out to be a disturbed wasps nest full of very angry wasps! Luckily I realized what it was early enough and was already running by the time the cloud of vengeful insects emerged but I wasn't fast enough to escape altogether unharmed. Once I had reached a safe distance I dealt with the two wasps that had latched onto me and counted the half dozen stings they had inflicted. But then I had the half mile or so walk back home trying to ignore the pane
. It's been nearly a decade since the last time I've been stung by anything and I'd forgotten how much it hurts:aargh4: .I'm just $orry for the pore sod who trod on it the first time, it looked like a responsible person had been going round collecting litter when they stepped on the nest and dropped there bags of rubbish as they were fleeing. I came on the seen from the other direction and so the trail of stuff inexorably led me to the nest. I just hope there ok and not allergic or anything
.Needless to say a antihistamine cream is urgently going into the mini first-aide kit I'm putting together for short walks. If I hadn't seen the nest and had walked right into it things could have been really nasty.
The hole thing got me wondering whether there where any herbs or other wild remedies for bee or wasp stings, like dock-leaves for stinging nettles, or techniques for escaping a swarm of bees or wasps?
I'm sitting here typing this still itching and saw but also grateful that it wasn't allot worse.
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