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.

That sounds horrendous!

I have survived the day thanks 😂

Tonight may be another matter. I will indeed shake the curtains and go and Google waspeze!

Flipping heck @MontyVerdi that's definitely worse.

They're waaaay out of line... little stripey bastards 🐝

If you had the windows closed there might be a nest in your roof.

We had a nest a few weeks ago, I was going to leave them until they all died off naturally but then I remembered that the last time we had a nest they were still appearing in the bathroom as late as December and they are getting past their useful time in late August so got the exterminator in.

£60 very well spent.

Sympathies on getting stung - it really does hurt!

Oh god. I'll have a look in the attic at the weekend. Hope it had just got in earlier as I often do ah e windows open and the bathroom window is open every night to let steam out.
Thanks though..good point 👍🏻

Kefalonia 2 years ago, end Sep/early Oct.
Visited a town (Fiskardo) where there were wasps everywhere, it was unbelievable.
Daughter and I went in to a shop, came out to see my husband in agony, swaeting, red in the face. He'd been wearing sandals, and 3 wasps had got inside the sandal and stung him. You could see the puncture marks.
Fortunately there was a fab pharmacy nearby who recommended some cream and it soon helped.
But to have 3 stings in one go wasn't nice...

It wasn't her nether regions, more her leg/buttock OP but still. She was half asleep poor woman.

Something similar happened to my husband but the wasp was in a sock, it must have got in when it was hung in the washing line, maybe yours came from the bedding or other clothes than had been dried outside?

I’m badly allergic to wasps and carry an epipen. I am considering not drying my laundry outside after reading some of these posts.

Similar thing happened to me around this time last year. I'd just got into bed and settled down when I felt a really nasty sharp stinging sensation on the back of my left shoulder. I immediately sat up and looked at my pillow, thinking I'd lain on a pin or one of my cat's claw casings,and could see something crawling on the pillow. My first fear was OMFG it's a spider and it's bitten me. I'm terrified of spiders. I put the light back on,and saw a wasp crawling on the pillow. I tried to catch it in a tissue but the bastard escaped. But oh fucking hell did the sting hurt! It must have been 25 years since I was last stung by a wasp and I'd forgotten how bloody painful it was. Thankfully,by the morning,it had stopped hurting but just kept itching for the next 24 hours. What is the actual point of wasps,I ask?!

Had a wasp sting me last week as I'd fallen asleep on the couch, and woke to it stinging me on the inside of my wrist. Brushed it off and shook my top but couldn't find it on the floor. Sat down and put antiseptic cream on it to soothe the sting. Half an hour later I felt something tickling behind my knee and jumped up shaking my leg to get rid of it. No chance! Then felt a sting behind my knee and pulled my trousers down and finished up dancing around in my knickers. But I got it and made sure it never stung anyone again! This too was around 2 o'clock. We'd had the exterminator guy round who found a nest in the shed and also up under the flashing under the bathroom window. Went to the loo one night and put the light on and there were about 30 of them trying to get in! Horror film stuff! Still had to get rid of three of them today and don't know where they're getting in.

Oh god. @grumpyoldwoman15 ouch.

It's been quiet on the insect front thankfully but omg... today the wound is driving me bananas. It's itching like crazy now and burning hot.

I am keeping an eye on it as best I can. Just popped an antihistamine and have witch hazel gel in the fridge. Been sat on a bag of peas for last half hour. 😩

Last year, in July, we'd had several hornets in the house, couldn't find where they were coming from. One afternoon I was sitting at my desk working. Moved slightly and felt excruciating pain in my leg, just under the knee, repeating several times. Jumped up and rapidly pulled my trousers down and a hornet flew out. It must have been on the floor and crawled up the inside of my trouser leg.
Bastard stung me 4 or 5 times, pretty much all in the same place. I have never known such agony.
DH came and considerately caught it in a jar in case I wanted to kill it personally.
It was so painful, waves of agony that lasted for ages. I was on antihistamines anyway. I found some steroid cream, spread lots of it on the affected bit. Taped a piece of plastic bag over it and then filled a small plastic bag with ice cubes and taped that on top. Every time the ice melted, I applied more steroid cream and ice cubes.

I did this continually for about 24 hours. It was so painful I couldn't sleep. Amazingly, it didn't swell, probably because it was being iced continuously.
The pain very gradually diminished but was about 5 weeks before it completely stopped hurting.
2 days later DH found the nest at the bottom of the garden and killed all the little fuckers. Nest was inside an old tree stump and luckily he heard some faint buzzing.
I'm very very wary of hornets and wasps now. Always shake clothes before I put them on, just in case.

I'm going to start checking my duvet too, after reading these horror stories.

Oh god.... hornet stings are supposed to be horrific. You poor thing.

I'm sat in my pants with a bag of frozen peas 😭

I got stung by a wasp on my foot last month and it hurt and itched for 2 weeks straight 😡. I was lucky though as I’d been wearing short yoga shorts and sitting with my legs crossed on the sofa and felt a tickling right when my leg joins my erm lady part, so I wafted it away and it spring my foot. Wouldn’t have fancied a sting there!

That is exactly the sound they make... 😂😂

I am SO going to check my bed tonight after all your tales of waspy woe... 😱

@Ecci Did you manage to end your hornet? (Considerate of your DH). I stood on one in my bedroom last year (what is it they all like our bedrooms?!) and the pain lasted for weeks... I was determined to kill it with extreme prejudice, but the thing would - not - die! I was smashing it with my shoe and I swear it was pushing it off... I could hear it zizzing at me, and though its body was crunching, it kept coming... relentless, like something from a horror film... bastards...

I love the exactness of that '52'... 😄

You poor thing OP!!
This time last year I left the house at 6am and as it was still dark I had my phone light on. Something banged against my hand, presumed it was a moth. Opened the car door, and all the wasps that had followed me from the nest above the front door poured into the car as soon as the interior light went on 😱
Was a nightmare! Alone, silly o’clock, with a car full of wasps.
Ended up like the waspy Pied Piper of Hamlin, leading the wasps out of my car through the open window with my phone light and round to the headlights. I shook all the way to work…

I have no words 😮😱😱😱😱

I wonder what they make of us all saying daddy long legs for crane flies

I know they serve a purpose,but this time of year they are the Stella Artois drinkers of the insect world.
We cut down a load of ivy when we replaced three fence panels and we've seen hardly any.
I heard on R4 last year that if you put a bit of chicken or sausage out of the way of the table when there's a BBQ they leave you alone because they will go for the protein.
I prefer one of those battery powered bats.

I'm sure I'm not the only person who will be checking the duvet before bed tonight.

I hope it is feeling better this evening.

Off topic but I was driving on a motorway late at night as a new driver years ago and a medium spider came down on a string in front of my face. I am so glad I kept my cool and didn’t crash. I plucked the thread from above it and threw it on the passenger seat and tried not to think where it was crawling.

Ergh. We had a horrible time when DH decided to spray the wasp nest in our roof with wasp killer and then seal the entrance thinking they would just die.

This was a huge mistake. Every wasp returning home and finding that the door was blocked up was furious. The ones inside still alive were furious. It was literally raining wasps inside the house for days!!!

Kill them on sight now after that