But 3 stings, on my left calf muscle in me leg. Stood on a wasps ground nest, earlier. Don’t realise until I saw a swarm behind me. 3 of em, attacked my leg, bloody things. Came home, and felt dizzy. Still feel a bit rubbish, but ok. Read about anaphylactic shock, but I think I’m ok. Beats my record of 2 stings to the forehead, a couple of years ago. What’s the worse stings/ bites, have you ever had?
When I was a teenager I was helping my dad tidy the garage There was this fly buzzing around so I reached out to grab it with my hand At the same time my dad picked up a lump of timber to whack it with I managed to grab the fly which was actually a wasp just as my dad clouted my hand with the lump of timber So I got stung and belted with a lump of timber at exactly the same time God it hurt like nowt I’d felt before and it took a few days before the swelling went down
As a small child, contrary to parental advice, whilst on holiday camping, I poked a stick into a wasps' nest just to see what happened. I don't remember the incident but apparently I was covered from head to foot with wasps. Luckily, I wasn't any the worse for it!
I keep bees and I no longer react to stings much although the one on the on the eyelid wasn’t fun. The most I’ve had was about 20 while dealing with a nasty hive:
Wife and I got eaten alive by midges and horse flies weekend before last, camping at Pencelli Castle (very good btw) near Brecon. We both look like we have been paintballing.
i managed to slice a wasps nest in half with my hedge trimmer a few years back. they were not happy.. ! problem with wasps is that they release a pheromone when they sting that alerts all the other wasps to come and join in, so once the stinging starts you're likely to get a lot more i can't remember how many stings but it was a lot.
I’ve had several back in Oz, usually from running barefoot through the grass when camping as a little un. Worstest one for the sympathy vote though was my little sister who is about sixteen years younger than me. Me and Mrs Ozziedog took her to Badminton for the horse trials as we’d gotten some free tickets from someone somewhere. She was only about fourteen at the time and a tad shy to go with it. We wandered around in the baking hot sunshine and we had just got some drinks and ice creams It was a proper lovely Sunday out until we heard this squealing/ screaming noise behind us. Little un had taken a sip of her ice cold coke, but a wasp had managed to get inside the can and as she took a sip and squashed him, he went to town on the middle of her lip Didn’t really know what to do so we searched out the St Johns tent and there was little treatment available to a lip impersonating a small balloon but they gave her an ice cube to lessen the pain a tad So we spent the rest of the afternoon getting our drinks one at a time so we could give her an ice cube that would last all of ten minutes in the glorious sunshine. Ozziedog,,,,,,,,,,funnily enough she still remembers it after twenty plus years
Try cutting a football sized nest in half with a hedge trimmer whilst 15 feet up a ladder trimming topiary. Joy.