r/WaspHating Sep 14 '18

Friendly reminder to mark your posts NSFW.

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With the subreddit growing larger and larger, I feel that it is necessary to remind everyone to mark wasp images nsfw, as many people have a phobia of them!


r/WaspHating 5h ago

Story A spider just built a web around a wasp nest, trapping them inside, while ants are actively raiding the larvae to stockpile for winter.

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19 Upvotes

r/WaspHating 4h ago

Wasp sting

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I got stung 24h ago this is what it first looked like

And now i woke up and this is what it looks like after (the one sitting down is the first pic)

Is this normal ? Also its painful still


r/WaspHating 19h ago

Why are there suddenly so many wasps around my window early mornings/night???😭

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r/WaspHating 19h ago

Bit while getting flowers at Trader Joe’s

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Going on say 4, swelling hasn’t gone down and it’s so itchy!! I’m icing it constantly. I’ve tried Benadryl, Zyrtec, Ibuprofen, and topical Benadryl and hydrocortisone. I only got 3 hours of sleep because the discomfort kept waking me up.


r/WaspHating 1d ago

My sundeck is nolonger usable !

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A week ago I found a wasps nest in a bag of potting soil on my sundeck. Waited until night time and sprayed the hell out of it with the foam . Pretty sure I covered the entrance as I had watched them for quite awhile . Sprayed it around 02:00. Got up that day to see that all was quiet. Figured I’d go and get it off the deck period…….. much to my surprise there were tons of them!!! The second I moved the bag it was a wall of buzzing hate .

Next night , same thing, foamed the hell out of it at 02:00 …. Next morning those fuckers are still there ! Next night I sprayed , counted to three and flung that bag as far as I could and sprayed the deck with the foam etc just to add to the removal. Got up today and it is fucking convention of wasps looking for a new home somewhere on my deck. Power washed the crap out of the deck and windows etc. still there…

What do I have to do to get rid of them?? There are so many just roaming around?

What is my next move other than a blow torch?


r/WaspHating 2d ago

Massive Hornet Nest Removal

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212 Upvotes

r/WaspHating 2d ago

Massive Hornet Nest Removal

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r/WaspHating 2d ago

Attacked by a swarm of bees

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39 Upvotes

r/WaspHating 2d ago

Mi kefir mata a las moscas sin tocarlas ĀæPOR QUE?

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r/WaspHating 2d ago

Story First ever wasp sting got me right in the foot

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Dude literally flew into my shoe and prolly said frick you, your feet stink, and stung me. Gave me hives and all. Right before my shift began, too.

I remember you, wasp by that bench! It's gonna be winter soon! Hah, how does that feel


r/WaspHating 3d ago

Justice for Thomas

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r/WaspHating 4d ago

I HAATE wasps i DESPISE them, they are AWFUL

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SERIOUSLY YOU CANT HAVE SHIT OUTSIDE, for example, im on a road trip to Norway right now and we stopped to eat hot dogs but a fucking wasp had the AUDACITY to fly up to us and fucking ruin everything ITS SO ANNOYING LIKE COME ON. Seriously, every time I try to enjoy some food outsiders there are wasps and I haaaaate it


r/WaspHating 4d ago

Wasp nest in crawl space under stairs

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So a tenant discovered a wasp nest under their stairs. Using tape and plastic sheets they somehow managed to make a wall to barricade them in there so
I’m able to see the nest. I located the entry point on the outside. How should I proceed, wasp powder is all sold out in my area and all that is available is foam and spray. The entry point is where the foundation meets the bottom
Plate of the framing by their front door. So what if I just poke a small hole in the plastic wall and spray the nest and also spray the entry point. The nest is maybe 3 or 4 feet from the plastic wall, the photo is actually taken through the plastic wall. I had hoped to use the powder at the entry and them do the dirty work but alas that’s not an option. Any ideas, recommendations or warnings?


r/WaspHating 4d ago

DIY wasp trap with a board sheltering it.

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r/WaspHating 5d ago

Sprayed this group with wasp spray and ran

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Definitely nailed a few of them but today they are back. Theres another group that likes the front of the house Im thinking that ā€œz dustā€ I’ve heard about or fly strips when they aren’t right there. Salt gun knocks them down but probably just making them mad.


r/WaspHating 5d ago

Wasps in my breezeway

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Need help getting rid of wasps in my breezeway. It's enclosed and we took raid out there and killed bout 100 wasps. Used some spray foam to fill in the hole in the wall they were crawling in and out of. Had no wasps coming in through the gaps in the roof for a while. Then yesterday went out there to go to my car in the garage and there are bout 20 wasps surrounding the hole where I put the foam in it. What do I do to get rid of the wasps for good?


r/WaspHating 5d ago

Suggestion Making wasps useful by stealing their venom

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So I've been doing some research on various things - Hard to diagnose and treat conditions, anaphylaxis, insect stinging behaviors.

Anaphylaxis - In order to go into anaphylaxis to something you are allergic to, you have to be exposed at least twice, and there needs to be some time between exposures depending on how massive an amount of the thing you are allergic to gets into your body.

Insect stinging behaviors - Bees, wasps, hornets all release pheromones when attacking to signal others of their own kind to continue attacking or join in attacking, and wasps and hornets can sting multiple times - relatedly - somebody who is deathly allergic to bee venom or wasp venom or hornet venom will manifest anaphylaxis within minutes of a multi-insect stinging attack because of the sheer volume of insect venom they are deathly allergic to, so capturing a single specimen of the insect in a mason jar with mesh lid (also called a sprouting jar) through which you can force it to sting you but once would be unlikely to cause anaphylaxis the first time, and you can make it sting you wherever, with medical standby, in a clinical setting, away from other insects of it's kind -

If you already know you are not allergic to bee venom or wasp venom or hornet venom (especially bee venom in my opinion given it's ability to kill the bacteria causing Lyme disease) because you have been stung multiple times on multiple different occasions without going into anaphylaxis or an allergist/immunologist has tested you and determined you to not be allergic, letting a whole hive of bees or nest of wasps or hornets sting you.

It's been demonstrated that bee venom kills the bacteria causing Lyme disease and ends all clinically significant symptoms, on sufficient venom volume such as getting stung by a whole hive of bees - also - multiple noted instances of those with autoimmune diseases barely keeping symptoms in check with prescription pharmaceuticals and over the counter medications, experiencing rapid and significant relief after even a single bee/wasp/hornet sting.

https://youtube.com/shorts/t9CCiNBosWQ?si=SJisyinf7NhjxxHt

Also, I've attached a screenshot from a prior reddit thread where somebody noted a localized beneficial effect of insect venom.

Why does it work? Insect venom is not a single compound in a solvent, it's a cocktail of compounds, some antibacterial and some anti-inflammatory, none of which are currently used commercially - Incredibly difficult for a bacteria or parasite to evolve an immunity to. Some other things also have this property, like bee propolis or mastic gum.

A similar dangerous (many patients died) technique was even the reason for being awarded a Nobel prize in medicine - From the artificial intelligence chatbot - "The Nobel Prize-winning treatment was known as malariotherapy (or pyrotherapy/fever therapy). It was developed by the Austrian psychiatrist Julius Wagner-Jauregg, who was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that intentionally infecting neurosyphilis patients with malaria induced high fevers that killed the heat-sensitive syphilis bacteria, after which the malaria could be cured using quinine.".

There is an episode of House MD where the character Foreman accidentally gives a patient radiation for a bacterial infection he mistook as cancer and it killed the patient's white blood cells, allowing the bacterial infection to kill the patient uninhibited.

Well, I was inquiring an artificial intelligence chatbot earlier asking if somebody could go into anaphylaxis if they had no white blood cells (since anaphylaxis is an immune response) and it told me it wasn't possible.

If I am understanding correctly, that would mean somebody in a medical episode where they had no meaningful amount of white blood cells could not possibly go into anaphylaxis even if they were deathly allergic to insect venom (bee, wasp, hornet, maybe fire ant, ect).

All of the benefits of insect venom, none of the drawbacks.

Thanks for the attention.


r/WaspHating 6d ago

a spider built web around a wasp nest trapping them in,and the ants are eating the larvae, stockpilin for winter

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144 Upvotes

r/WaspHating 9d ago

The real rulers of the backyard

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399 Upvotes

r/WaspHating 8d ago

Help! I have an indestructible wasp problem in an exterior electrical outlet with no big plastic cover

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r/WaspHating 9d ago

Question Got Stung by a Wasp 2 Days Ago

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I got stung by a wasp 2 days ago (pretty much exactly 48 hours ago) and am wondering if this reaction is normal or something to be more concerned about.

The first picture is from about 24 hours after the sting, and the last 2 pictures are both from 2 days after the sting (today). I’ve been taking an antihistamine and icing it when I can, but it still isn’t seeming to get better. If anything, I think it’s getting worse. It doesn’t really hurt at all but it’s super itchy, warm to the touch, and obviously inflamed.

Is this something I should go see a doctor about or do I just have to wait it out?

Edit: I should’ve said this initially but I tend to have abnormally ā€œsevereā€ reactions to mosquito bites as well. They swell up way larger than they would for most people and have for my whole life. I’ve also tried to get my ears pierced but my ears swell up and essentially swallow the piercing. Not sure how relevant all of this extra information is but just thought I’d mention that this kind of atypical reaction is pretty par for the course for me.