[Dion]

Originally Posted by Buff

I was stung for the first time in my life, just a couple months shy of my 49th birthday. There goes that streak. I'll never live long enough to beat it. Now what to live for.

Seriously though. I was just standing talking to someone and my hand was in my pocket. He watched the wasp just non-chalantly land on my wrist and then that son-of-a-bitch stung me. My arm was still and I wasn't even threatening it. My wrist was sore for two days but I hardly had any swelling. It looked more like a mini welt. That same guy I was talking to was stung a week later and his entire hand swelled up something fierce... it looked like a rubber glove had been inflated.

One thing I have learned and I'm not sure if this is a myth spread on social media or true... When you kill a wasp it leaves behind a scent that attracts other wasps to come to the area and they essentially are out for vengeance.

It's not a myth

In studying wasps, researchers found that wasps would alert others to a threat, but we didn’t know how. We now know that when injured or killed, a wasp releases pheromones that alert other wasps of a threat. This is why other wasps seem to swarm around and seek revenge when you kill a wasp. Wasps can become especially aggressive when their nest is disturbed. Although there is no science backing the concept that wasps seek revenge, it has been proven that they will rally together to protect their territory and colony.

https://fox-pest.com/blog/5-fascinating-wasp-facts/