I feel like the most ferocious pain I felt when I was younger was caused by a wasp.
Hello lovelies, here’s a story time and some facts about a day I felt like I was dying.
First off, if you haven’t experienced a wasp sting then I’m really jealous of you, but then I also feel bad because the day you do get stung will be so horrible for you and like a wide awakening.
I was about 7 years old and was playing with my Monster High dolls on the living room floor, just minding my own business. I remember making them perform a cheerleading contest (best one ever by the way) when I rolled over to get up and I ended up feeling the harshest stabbing pain in my back. It was horrid, if I can describe it to you, I would say it felt like the pain when chomp down on your teeth when they’re hurting. The pain was all in the nerves of my back, I literally wailed like a baby. Then my sisters were over there panicking because they didn’t see anything or know what was wrong with me, I mean, I didn’t either, but they made it no better.
I could feel the bump forming in the middle of my spine almost, my sisters literally had to carry me to my mom and put ice on my back. They kept asking me what happened, and I kept telling them I didn’t know, and I started to explain what happened when we started hearing a loud buzzing noise coming from the other room. My mom went to check it out and then she came back shaking her head and said: Welp, I’m sorry, it looks like we have a wasp situation. That was the day I discovered the enemy.
This is the John Wick of wasps.
The Sphecius Speciosus
These wasps are some big wasps, they can grow to about 2 inches and they’re mostly found in the Rocky Mountains. Now, I’m no bug expert nor am I a big lover of bugs, but I’ve learned some interesting things about these creatures, some from google and some information from YouTube. Google says these wasps rarely harm people unless aggravated but they usually fly away when swatted at. The Animalcorner.com also explains that “If handled roughly females will sting, males will jab with a sharp spine on the tip of their abdomen, and both sexes are well equipped to bite with their large jaws” and after that’s about it.
Now, this Youtuber named Jordan Howlett a.k.a., jordan_the_stallion8 explains that they’re much more vicious than that. He explains that from his research he learned that if you become rivals with these persistent bugs, it’ll be a problem. The hornets can survive about 10 minutes fully submerged in water and if there’s even a drop of air in that water they can survive for weeks. He also says they have photographic memory. He claims there have been stories of people seeing these bugs camp outside of their houses waiting like assassins after encountering them. They also allegedly report back to their colonies about any danger they come to face with, and that anger is a good thing because they’re supposed to live longer when they’re angry. I don’t know, but the explanation sounds very interesting. I mean, imagine if you were to get stung by one of these; what would you even do?
Anyway, this is the wasp that stung me:
Paper wasps
These are the average house wasps. Even though their stings hurt very painfully and cause irritations and swelling, they’re mostly harmless. Paper wasps mostly just fly around and scrape wood from your house and outbuildings to make their nest. I don’t know how one got into our house, or why it decided to sting me while I was making Clawdeen do flips, but it made me very upset.
Ya’ll, I didn’t know where this blog was going, but thank you for trusting the process.
Ok but like in all my 17 years of living I’ve been stung by like 10 wasps. it was the harmless ones that stung me but when your young them stings hurt like a baseball to the back.
Eating this blog like a jelly krabby patty- the way you explain stuff is such a vibe, and I’m so here for the wasp facts! Perhaps the paper wasp stung you because it was disagreeing with your judgement of the cheerleading contest…
I have such a personal vendetta agaisnt wasps, like a bee understands that if it stings you it will die, they do it out of protection, wasps just do it because they are jerks
One time I got stung by a wasp on my leg and it swelled up like a balloon. This also reminded me of this one time when my brother and I were on our trampoline and this gecko bit me and I screamed. My brother ran inside (left me outside) to get out mom. While he was inside I screamed again (for absolutely no reason) and my brother ran back outside and asked if it bit me again. I said no. He looked at me like I had three heads. This all happened when I was in kindergarten. I also remember after getting the gecko to let go of me I kept holding it.