To be stung by a wasp at 1.30am

[peppermintteadrinker]

i mean...I think it is bloody unreasonable of the wasp.

I just woke up to a sharp pain in my upper thigh. Thought I had been bitten. Flung off the duvet and put the light on. .. and there's a sodding tiny wasp on the floor.

My leg is on absolute fire now and it really hurts.

I mean ... The middle of the night, in bed, in nearly October and the window is shut. What the hell? I'm in agony and need to go back to sleep as I've got to get up for work in 4 hours. 😭

I've done the vinegar thing but it is still hurting like hell.

Is this an omen? What the HELL?!

Had to share with someone, if anyone is up. Ow...ow...owwww.

Happened to me years ago, got in to bed, felt sting in my arm and it was a bloody wasp in October! My arm blew up like a balloon - had to get antihistamines - now am v wary of being stung but thankfully haven’t been since.

Were your sheets dried out in the garden?

Oh God. I'm severely wasp phobic but had all the windows in the house open yesterday thinking the little sods are probably gone for this year. Last thing before closing my eyes I wondered if one had got in but thought nah.

I will be vigilant OP - thanks for alerting me. I hope your poor leg feels better soon.

I had a Teams call earlier in the summer at home for work. Took off the headset and a HUGE wasp fell out of my hair.

I'm not the better of it.

Poor you, how awful! I'm also very wasp phobic, the thought of being stung during the night is very unnerving! I'll be looking out for a wasp in my bed in the future.

My last sting, 9 years ago, made my leg swell up like a balloon and it took 2 weeks for it to heal. (It was actually like a jellyfish sting I had many years ago.)

No. Tumble dried. It's really bizarre although I had just changed them 🤔

You've clearly got poor hearing!

@OhmygodDont - though to be fair at least it put the washing out for you.

DH found one in his underpants, they had been drying on the line and I put them straight in the underwear drawer. He was not amused, no damage done fortunately.

We don't have these things in the UK? Are you in USA?

This happened to me one November in the middle of the night. I had gone to the loo and it was inside the loo roll. I was so lucky it was "only" my finger 😬. It was dark and the sudden sting was so intense, I just whacked it as hard as I could on a towel hanging on the door which splatted the bloody wasp. Horrible.

This happened to me a few weeks ago, stung me twice on the leg. I was outraged but then puzzled as to how it got there, all tucked up under the duvet. Very strange.

WTF was it's problem?!!

My poor granny once sat on a wasp on the toilet seat in the middle of the night - she said it was a horrible sting and experience.

I'm going to check my room and duvet for wasps before settling down to sleep.

years ago my granny got stung 50+ times by a swarm of wasps next to a big country house near us while walking her dogs. About a year later I was in the exact spot walking my sisters dog with her and I had just said "this is where granny got attacked by wasps" and low and behold I got stung 3 times. Bloody bastards. I feel your pain it's very sore!

The default state for wasps is 'unreasonable'. Particularly at this time of year when they know their time is up and they're of a "If I'm going down I'm taking every last one of you bastards with me!" state of mind.

We have hornets and dragonflies here which seem to keep the wasp numbers down at least, athough both a rather alarming when you're trying to usher them out of the house.

I got stung at 3am a few years ago. I had got up to see to dd2, it got stuck in my pyjama trousers and I was stung 5 times. It turned out we had a nest in the eaves in the attic.

Different names...
tylenol/paracetemol, I think
cotton balls...cotton wool?
rubbing alcohol...surgical spirit?
(I googled) 🤞

We don't have "carpenter" ants either

Big black ants that eat through wood?

That is not on by the wasp!

I was woken up 3 times by the same spider crawling over my face a few nights ago. Not nice, but preferable to. Wasp sting.

Vinegar on wasp stings. Antihistamines and a cold compress for the pain

I feel your itchy pain. I woke up in the middle of the night to 7 mosquito bites

One October half term went up to bed and there were 52 wasps on the bedroom curtains at my parents' house. Mum got stung but Dad got out the vacuum cleaner and sucked them up. He put sticky tape over the nozzle so they could escape and binned them all the next morning.
Wasps always seemed to like that bedroom, must have been the lovely 1970s pink nylon curtains.

@EdgeOfSixty 😱😱😱

Nicely put!

Haven't had a lot of wasps and usually see a couple of hornets who love my fig tree but they didn't make an appearance this summer. Unless they kindly popped by while I was on holiday!

It's all a bit odd!

Many years ago there was a wasps nest in my wall in a rented flat. I could hear buzzing when I was in bed and think I was stung then too but not in my sleep. I think I sat on it! The dopey landlord kept saying they'd flown in the window until they ate through the plasterboard and I could see them. I had to just gaffer tape the wall as he wouldn't deal with it!