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In reply to the discussion: Yellow Jackets SUCK! [View all]csziggy
(34,136 posts)We'd gone through the gate and they didn't come out so we thought we were safe. On the trip back through the gate was when they came out and one got me.
I did prove a point, though. I froze and though the rest of the nest was swarming all around me, I didn't get stung again. Apparently, they can only see you if you move. When my husband came back, he swung the gate away from me which made the wasps follow it and I could move through without getting another sting.
My husband had told me about this. He was once with a group of guys hiking through the woods. One stepped INTO a ground nest of yellow jackets and got stung several times instantly. All the guys but my husband took off running and all of them got more than one sting before they could out run the wasps.
My husband froze until he could no longer hear any wasps swarming, then he walked very S-L-OW-L-Y away from the nest and the track the other men had taken. He was the only one of the group who didn't have a single sting!