meat bees or wasps

The most important thing I can tell you regarding meat bees or meat wasps is that if they are around you you need ti be aware of where they are. Why?

Because if you are afraid or are too rough in shoeing them away. they will bite you. I have been bitten many times in my life by them and almost died once running straight out of an attic while working with my father because of them at 8 or 10 because we were two stories up at the time and if my father hadn't  grabbed my t-shirt I likely would either have died or broken both my legs or both. they had bitten me about 20 times already and I wanted to get away from them and one was biting me under my t-shirt on my chest. So, my father grabbed the meat bee under my T-shirt and killed it by squeezing it with one hand so it stopped biting me then.

Since then I have learned a lot about hornets in general after that near death experience and being saved by my Dad.

The first thing you want to know is that if you are afraid they are much more likely to bite you because when someone is afraid they give off Fear pheromones and this causes them to bite you for some reason. So, literally they smell fear and this causes them to bite.

Next, if you accidentally get one under your arm or slap one on your neck it's going to bite when you do this. So, be careful of the movements when they are after your food. IF there are a dozen or more Meat Bees or Meat hornets just walk away from your food because at that point it just isn't worth it because each Meat Bee or hornet can bite you 20 times or more and the effect is a lot like a sting( each one). IT's not like a bee that can only sting you once so you have to take one meat bee or meat hornet much more seriously than just one bee that can only sting you once.

Maybe it's best to think of these meat bees or hornets as "machine gun bees" because of the numbers of bites each one can give you.

So, it's important to respect them if you see them after your hamburgers or hot dogs on a picnic.

When I first married my wife in the 90s we were standing on a cliff up stream from Lake Siskiyou and my two daughters were climbing up a cliff behind me. I heard my wife screaming and asked what has happened and she said there is a hornet biting me under my right beach walker. I walked up to her and demanded her foot (as a way to keep her from accidentally falling of the nearby cliff. I stuck her toes that had venom in them in my mouth and sucked the poison out while she began to calm down. The poison numbed my tongue so I spat it out but at least I had saved my wife's life from accidentally falling off a cliff in a state of hysteria from the meat bee bites under the thong on her beach walker sandals. All types of hornets (not just meat bees or hornets are like this).

The trick is to not panic and accidentally kill yourself like I almost did at age 8 or 10 or my wife almost did by falling off a cliff when you are bitten many times by a hornet.