Getting stung on tractor

[doghouse]

Ground hornets is my guess.

[brrdnk]

Probably ground hornets.

[Tbar]

Ground hornets or ground bumble bees.........



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[FireMedic26]

I've got a buddy who's wife and son recently got swarmed by, what he thought were, yellow jackets. The pharmacist told him that if they looked like yellow jackets and came from the ground, they wer guinea wasps. Don't know if this is what got your dad, but if they came from the ground, it could be.

[SaltwaterSlick]

Many on here need to learn to identify just what is stinging them...

Yellow jackets are bee-like (look much like a honey bee except they are yellow), and build a hive/nest in the gound or in old rotting logs. They can sting multiple times wheras a honey bee is only capable of one sting. Yellow jackets will swarm like bees and they will light on their victim and just walk along and sting over and over... They are small and can be very aggressive.

Guinnea wasps are just that, wasps. they build a wasp nest in a protected area above ground. Sometimes they will build in brier patches or other low brush if there are no good trees or other protected areas to build in. A paper wasp is much like a guinnea wasp except they are generally bigger but much less aggressive than guinnea wasps. The paper wasps are most common in West and South Texas and they invade deer stands in the fall when Winter is about to set in. they hibernate. Both paper wasps and guinnea wasps are the yellow ringed ones with light brown wings... they are much larger than yellow jackets and are a true wasp wheras a yellow jacket is a type of bee that is actually omniverous... they will gather pollen as well as eat meat/carion and are often seen around game cleaning stations. They also love watermellon and other sweet fruits.

Bumble bees are big black and yellow bees, but can be solid black (several subspecies are in Texas) that build a nest under ground as well. they are very aggressive around their nest and are very common where brushhogs and choppers, etc disturb their nests... they swarm the victim, and can also sting multiple times.

Hornets are solid black with a single black ring around their tail section. They build a paper nest and often look like the typical nest you see in cartoons... The nest is gray and generally are built in tall spindly trees in the understory of a forest. the nest will encompass a series of small branches for support. They generally do not build the nest or attach it to a large limb of a big tree... Hornets are perhaps second only to killer (Africanized) bees when it comes to aggressiveness, especially in the vacinity of their nest. Hornets hit their victim very hard and have a very large stinger with respect to the proportions of their body size. They are wasp shaped with a larger than normal abdominal section.

There are many other variations of wasps and bees around us, but these are the ones that are most often mis-identifed. Pretty much everyone knows what a red wasp looks like... and yes, they hurt too!!

[DNZ Welding]

This is why I am glad my tractor has a cab

[mchitched]

Me and a buddy got hit about a dozen times a piece three days ago when we ran over a rotted stump on the four wheeler. They were mad and swarmed the four wheeler even after we un- a--ed it! This was in a planted pine patch and they were what we call guinea wasps. Small, black and yellow, ill tempered lil suckers! Felt like somebody beat the back of my head with a car antenna!

[smokin feathers]

yellow jackets, I find them in the ground all the time pushin firelanes and clearin land. Find some bees some times but they mainly will just swarm and hit you and not sting you where the yellowjackets will tear you up. Was clearing a tract in Cut N Shoot last month and got stung almost everyday, them suckers were everywhere. i would give them a few mins to settle down and swarm the ground and then get a blade full of dirt and run up there and cover them up. Kills them everytime, that way you dont have to worry about them later!

When you get in them on machine stick with it and get away from them and remember to turn the machine off when you abandon ship. I jumped off and left the old dozer running one time and they swarmed that sucker for almost an hour, everytime I tried to get close they would come after me again.

[gacman]

I would guess ground hornets but some are saying bumble bees. ground hornets.

[Osceola]

Bumble bee hive(they're in the ground) . Been there, done that.

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[quarterback]

Man they do hurt. Why do they always go for the head!?!?!

[simp76]

bumble bees

[BTLowry]

Ground hornets or bumble bees.

If you know where they are you can hit them after dark with some wasp spray or diesel out of a sprayer and it will take care of them.

I was weedeating some fenceline the other day and found a red wasp nest under some thick layed over grass

[RageNside]

If they are bees dont they leave their stingers?

[twigflipper]

Just last nite responded on a call were a 13 year old was killed. He was shredding and was stung. One of the first to try and help had over 100stings.Be carfull.
Mike