What just stung me?

[oldfella1962]

Wow, that was random! I was turning off my outdoor faucet with the hose attached and POW! Fire was shooting into my left upper arm! I think I saw a black insect about an inch long flying around the bushes next to the faucet. Was it a hornet? A wasp? It didn't leave a stinger and my arm isn't swelled up, I just have a pink circle about three inches in diameter with a tiny red dot in the middle. I beat feet inside, so I didn't stick around to see if there were more of them. The intense pain went away in about five minutes, but it still burns a little. I took a couple of Tylenol already. Any thoughts on what it could have been?

 

[ClemsonRangers]

guinea wasp

 

[doenightmare]

Sound like what I experienced when a wasp popped me. This was a red wasp.

 

[bany]

Wasp

 

[oldfella1962]

I tried researching "Georgia insects that sting you" and I had no idea there were that many species!

 

[basstrkr]

Did you put any backker on it?

 

[oldfella1962]

Did you put any backker on it?

I don't have any idea of how to do that. I don't smoke or chew tobacco or anything like that. I just popped a couple of Tylenol, but I don't know if that really helped because there was no swelling or inflammation to begin with. I'm glad I'm not one those "anaphalactic shock" people that's for sure.

 

[WOODIE13]

Vinegar and baking soda will work, make a paste and soak it.

If that don't work, ammonia bite pens or straight ammonia on a cloth (drawing agent)

Meat tenderizer, just make a paste

 

[WOODIE13]

Sounds like a mud dobber wasp

 

[Hillbilly stalker]

Meat tenderizer usually works good.

 

[slow motion]

Sounds like a mud dobber wasp

That's what I was thinking. They not typically aggressive though.

 

[WOODIE13]

That's what I was thinking. They not typically aggressive though.

Just depends

 

[DannyW]

If you have a hose hanger, check underneath that. I had some wasps build a nest on the underside of my hose hanger once.

 

[Redbow]

If you have a hose hanger, check underneath that. I had some wasps build a nest on the underside of my hose hanger once.

That happened to me also and they got me bad one morning when I went to use my water hose.

 

[Mars]

I don't do well with stings. I swell up and stay swole till I can get a steroid shot. This was from a wasp living under the rung of my ladder. Guess which rung I grabbed when I needed it...

 

[treemanjohn]

The burning sounds like a packsaddle

 

[oldfella1962]

The burning sounds like a packsaddle

Okay I understood none of that. A packsaddle?

 

[oldfella1962]

I don't do well with stings. I swell up and stay swole till I can get a steroid shot. This was from a wasp living under the rung of my ladder. Guess which rung I grabbed when I needed it...View attachment 1163834

It looks like inflating a surgical glove!

 

[Batjack]

Okay I understood none of that. A packsaddle?

A green and brown caterpillar that hides on the bottom side of leaves and will light you up like 220 volts with just a touch.

 

[Hooked On Quack]

The burning sounds like a packsaddle

First thing that came to mind.