You can outrun them....

[Steve_in_SEMich]

I've read these and the other "Bees/Wasps/Hornets etc. with great interest as we also have had multiple nests in the peaks of roof. My activities get me into the woods regularly and I'm always on the look out recalling all the experiences fellow TBNr's have written about.........

Last night I visit a friend (he has an Kubota L3130) to go to a club meeting. I drove around to the barn area to check out his pallet forks set-up. Get out of the truck, see his new Golden Retriever pup, walk over to the fence to rub his ears, and as I bent down I was poked in the hand by a sticker or briar or something. I look to see how I stuck my hand on a sticker without noticing it and I get poked by another in the upper leg, then another in the ankle, and another in the forearm. By now I'm observing bees/wasps and trying to look thru them to find that **** briar that's poking me. Finally, 2+2 = 4 and I react to the BEES! Back the 20 yards to the truck like a college track star. I haven't laughed at myself that hard for years. Luckily they hadn't setup the whole colony yet as my friend later informed me that he'd been through that gate multiple times during the day. He appreciated me finding the nest for him. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

Steve

 

[Slamfire]

If you don't know you are allergic an epi-pen is a good thing to have around anyway. They aren't all that expensive and have a shelf life of 5 years. If you are allergic, carry the pen on your person at all times, you don't have much time to react.
My wife seems to find stinging insects quite easily. Yesterday, while watering her hanging herb garden a wasp got her on the hand. A cute litte bird house she'd bought for decoration, proved to be just what the wasps were looking for, fine upscale housing. Luckily the spray can was only about 3 feet away from the apartment complex.
She managed to weather the storm with several doses of Benadryl. A point to consider is the over the counter version is only a quarter of the strength of the prescription version.