Double ouch!! I wonder if that is the species my daughter has in her yard. They build their nests by digging into the dirt. Those suckers are gigantic!

Benadryl might help. "Remember the "dryl".

Gawdam Europeens! Go poke people in yer own gawddam yard. Geez... I tell ya - ya can't teech a furriner nuttin' these days.

Personally, I think you should consider getting pest control to look into it. Perhaps costly but it could be worse if you do nothing.

You have to track down where they're coming from first. Full frontal assault...

To my mind that would be a public health issue and the home nest should be found. A hornet sting isn't the same from one person to the next. Where someone might just get an irritating bump, others can go into anaphylaxic shock. Instead of trying to handle it yourself, you might want to consider getting public officials involved.

If you have a public health department, they would have numbers you can call for help. Make no mistake though - this is a serious problem and not just for you, but your neighbors as well. You might want to have a discussion with some of them to see if you can locate the nest (or nests). There are some very effective sprays you can get to kill the nest... (that's important - hornets have been known to return to the nest site and rebuild if you don't get them all). I once had a hornet nest in between the exterior and interior wall finishes. I drilled a small hole and sprayed the nest - poison went in and hornets flew out about 2 or 3 feet and died. Never had a problem afterwards.

"I wouldn't piss on 'em if they were on fire."

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