Killer Bug!!!

[triw51]

Tom I would screem also am not ashamed to admit it. Then I think I would make a holster for a big can of hornet spray. WOW Cast it and let us know what it looks like

 

[GoatRider]

Looks like a Bald Faced Hornet,they will chase you down to sting you(nasty little things).

Doesn't look at all like the bald-faced hornet I know about. Those are not at all aggressive unless you disturb their nests, and they are minor pollinators. I first saw them pollinating my raspberries. They can stay!

 

[alamocdc]

It is a Cicada Killer. True Yellow Jackets do look similar, but get no where near 1.5" long as was the fellow in the OP pic (Yellow Jacket queens only grow to .75"). This was also more than likely a male (females grow to 2"). Males have no sting, but they do "act" aggressive and are territorial. The females are bigger, and will sting if caught, or stepped on. Surprisingly, most find the sting quite mild for their size and nothing like that of a true Yellow Jacket or ground hornet. I keep saying true Yellow Jacket because growing up in Texas, my family called yellow paper wasps.

 

[sbell111]

We get them here in Tennessee, a friend ran over a nest on a tractor, talk about a lot of pain. he was stung over 30 places and got quite sick.

That's a different bug. Cicada killers are not social, so a person would be super unlikely to suffer multiple stings from running over a nest. Further, males have no stinger and females are quite unaggressive. The stings from this insect are reported to be very mild.

Yellowjacket! Very aggressive! Hurts like #$%%!

That's also a different insect. Female cicada killers are quite unaggressive and males have no stinger. Also, their stings are reported to be mild.

Have to go with the ground hornet too don't know the fancy name. Was camping with parents 50 some years ago in a state park in the finger lakes area of New York. Was out picking up firewood, the ground was made of assorted slabs of a rock piled on each other. I stepped on on and it tipped it was the top of one of their nests.

They covered me like a blanket, I dropped the wood and by pure luck ran towards the water. And into the water and went under before I knew what I was doing. I moved a little ways away and came up, there were a couple hanging around and they had to be killed as they wouldn't stop.

Can't say if I screamed at all, or like a little girl as they stung the inside of my mouth when it was open!

It took over 40 minutes to get to the closest hospital, And the doctor another hour to get there.

My father grab him by the shirt collar and picked up off the floor! The Doctor said wait a minute, Your son will be ok as you said it was over 40 minutes since he was stung. He then told us that in about 20/25 minutes, if the person isn't dead they are out of danger!

The nurses were dabbing something on each sting, the counted over 179. When the doctor told them to just paint it on me. Hurt like hell for a couple of days.
Was a hell of a way to start a 4 week vacation road trip that year, for a 13 year old.
He said that it was no indication that I might not have problems in the future. I have been stung on a number of occasions and also watch out for signs of any symptoms and so far nothing.
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That must have totally sucked, but you definitely encountered a different insect than the OP has. You probably ran afoul of the eastern yellowjacket. It has a similar appearance to the cicada killer, but it is smaller. It is also social, meaning that it lives in a colony and will swarm, and it is aggressive. If you provoke them, they will come after you en masse and sting you over and over until you get away or they get bored.

I mounted the beast on a maple burl cap and cast it in Alumilite. Big mistake! I knew I should have used my supply of PR. Oh well, live and learn...

Tom

Moisture is the caster's enemy. If you are going to cast an insect, you have to make sure that it is completely dessicated prior to casting.

 

[DestinTurnings]

I have cast helgramites in epoxy minutes after killing them. I've also cast scorpions and spiders in PR the same day as killing them. You can actually cast the bugs without drying them out, you just have to chose a medium that can withstand the moisture.