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<blockquote data-quote="STM" data-source="post: 153695" data-attributes="member: 12827">Yellow Jackets are actually wasps and have a very mean disposition. When I was about 8 I stepped on one of their in-ground nests (just a hole in the ground from what you could see) and I was immediately swarmed by tons of the ornery bastids. I ran home screaming, with them biting and stinging me the entire way home. Unlike honey bees, whose stingers are barbed and who die when they try to pull them out of you because they disembowel themselves, yellow jacket stingers are smooth so they can sting you repeatedly. They also like to bite you. My Mom put me in the bath tub with a ton of baking soda and covered me in calamine lotion. From that day on I have had an full blown hate on for them and stomp them into goo every time I see them. Once when I came upon an in-ground nest I poured gasoline into it and lit it. I never knew yellowjackets could fly when they are on fire, though they did not fly for long!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="STM, post: 153695, member: 12827"] Yellow Jackets are actually wasps and have a [I]very mean [/I]disposition. When I was about 8 I stepped on one of their in-ground nests (just a hole in the ground from what you could see) and I was immediately swarmed by tons of the ornery bastids. I ran home screaming, with them biting and stinging me the entire way home. Unlike honey bees, whose stingers are barbed and who die when they try to pull them out of you because they disembowel themselves, yellow jacket stingers are smooth so they can sting you repeatedly. They also like to bite you. My Mom put me in the bath tub with a ton of baking soda and covered me in calamine lotion. From that day on I have had an full blown hate on for them and stomp them into goo every time I see them. Once when I came upon an in-ground nest I poured gasoline into it and lit it. I never knew yellowjackets could fly when they are on fire, though they did not fly for long! [/QUOTE]

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