Wasp in the thyme, never seen one like this.

I once sat on a "paper wasp" nest at a hunt on private land. Yes, it was in the loo. After getting stung like 12 times in 3 seconds I did plan B. Then called the land manager so he could deal with it before other paying guests might suffer the same fate. Needless to say he was less than pleased. I must note tho' that he was unhappy with ME for being on the land too early in the day! Not before 3PM!

My little brother and i were at deer hunt camp and wandering thru the adjacent property and found a subway car they put there. I walked in and to the rear.

My brother enters and pushes something that has a big paper wasp nest attached and yell bees!!!

I turn and see a cloud, and start my speedy escape. Forgetting to hold my shotgun vertical it clothes lined me at the exit door and laid me flat on my back.

By the time i got my clothes off i was stung over 50 times and probably more. And all in my clothes. My shotgun was entirely ruined and sternum black and blue.

But i like your story better.

I climbed 30 feet up into a deer stand w/wasp nest-once.

Sorry for you too Kevin.

You guys want to really get stung? Go pick up a velvet ant. I remember doing that once as a kid and only once, that thing nailed me good! The irony is that I was carrying it by the abdomen to drop it in a doodlebug (antlion)trap to watch it get eaten. Needless to say, that ant survived! I have been stung or bitten by just about everything that swims, crawls or flies in Louisiana, though I have thus far avoided being bitten by water moccasins (except once on the boot when I stepped on one...but no penetration ) rattlesnakes, copper heads or any spiders (shudder) and the only sting that I REMEMBER is that velvet ant!

I too have bush hogged over a bumble bee nest or two, the really horrible thing is that you don't actually find out that you have done so until they are after you!

No it was a velvet ant, although now that I think about it, they would hardly fit in a antlion trap? Kids brains, go figure. I think that I was holding it with a leaf or something and watching it's abdomen in case it swung around and stung me, it never did move it's abdomen but sure as Hell stung me. I caught one a week or so later, trying to figure out how it happened and discovered that if I put a thick piece of pine straw, didn't want to hurt the lady, I seem to recall that the males are winged, and that her stinger came out and was able to bend up and probe the pine straw, was a fascinating discovery. Of course this was way before Al Gore had invented the internet so I had to figure it out on my own. Maybe there are different species of velvet ant in Louisiana, I'm too lazy to look it up lol, so maybe I had a smaller variety, but it was def. a velvet ant and not a true ant.

I meant to say a wasp without wings. Yes you are correct shotgunman.