Wasps nest in all kinds of places but did you know a commonplace for them to nest is in the ground? The great gold wasp burrows in the sand and the mud dauber burrows in mud to build nests. The yellowjacket can make above-ground nests but often they prefer underground for protection.
A story to share with everyone:
As a young boy around 5 or 6 I went blueberry picking with my Aunt. I saw a big cluster of blueberries in a spot on the ground and went to pick them. I stepped on a wasps nest. I don't know how many times I got stung but it hurt like hell, my Aunt was brushing them away from and I was trying not to cry. I must have gotten stung over 12 times and my aunt did also from trying to get them away from me.
She said we have find some mud to put on those stings you got. I said here some here and she said not that isn't the right kind of mud. she finally found what she was looking for which looked to be black in color to me and put it on all the sting spots then put some on her own stings she got while fighting them off of me. It started to cool the stinging almost immediately. She said just leave that on until it dries up and falls away on its own, which I did. I don't know to this day what would have happened if she hadn't gotten that mud on me, she seemed to relax once she found it and applied it to me, then to herself.
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@very-rusty saidDon't kill the wasps.
I was trying to add to the thread not kill it, certainly trying to kill those wasps though! 🙂
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