So I was minding my own business on today's club ride, when I suddenly felt a sharp pain on my right side. I initially thought it might have been a seam irritating me, but within a second the intensity was way too strong. I was climbing a hill and the pace was pretty quick, so I couldn't really pull over. A couple minutes later I felt some more pain. It seemed to be moving around.

I finally got to the end of the ride and unzipped...out flies a bee, it moved pretty quickly but I think it was one of those yellow jacket wasps. It left behind 4 little welts, which appear to be 4 separate stings.

Now I gotta go find some benadryl.

Beats me how he got into my jersey, it was zipped up almost completely.

Sigh.

Thanks for reminding me to replace my liquid benadryl capsule.

I will take a big handful of jersey and squish the heck out of it to kill and rip apart bee to (hopefully) keep from getting hit with multiple stings.

Next time Jens it.

Ouch! I'm glad this has only happened to me once in my life.

+1

I remember to check my jerseys after I hang dry them outside.

Ouch.

Definitely not a bee. Sounds like a wasp as you said, a bee can only sting once.

Good thing it was relatively weak one. I remember a few years back playing airsoft we managed to upset a nest of Asian paper wasps. I got stung twice and it hurt for weeks. My friend got stung and the flesh literally melted away around the sting. I checked out the web and found out that people die from being stung by these things. Korean wasps are nasty!

good

Is that anything like Korean Fan Death?

I can't find any real info on asian paper wasp stings, but I suppose some wasp stings can be very serious. I think it only took 10-20 stings from some japanese hornets to kill an adult. But that's also because they inject much more venom than ordinary wasps

edit: found some info on paper wasps. Apparently a sting from one of those is level 3 of 4 on the schmidt sting pain index. Higher is more painful. Normal yellowjacket is level 2

I knew I could count on some sympathy from you.

The good news is that although it was an uncomfortable night, the swelling and discomfort is mostly gone today.

I agree it was a wasp not a bee. Yellow jacket, I think but I never got a close look at it.

Glad it wasn't Korean.

Be glad. At first I thought being airsoft someone shot me from really close with a sniper rifle, but no 500fps plastic projectile ever hurt that much. Now if the idiots hadn't been hosing the nest with bbs in the first place they wouldn't have been stirred up. At any rate from what I read if you are young, old, or weak then 10-20 stings can indeed cause death. Who would have thought such a small insect can hold so much nasty venom?

I actually fear wasps. Every time a big bug hits me i panic and crank up the speed to max in case it's a wasp with a bad attitude. Those buggers can give chase up to 33km/h.

So there apparently wasn't a 3-5 mph crosswind to slow it down?

Had one fly into my jersey last summer. Stung me in the ribs, then moved around to my back and shoulders, and stung me two more times. Little bastard!

Be glad it wasnt one of these. Or was it?

YIKES!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asian_giant_hornet

What color was the jersey? I have a theory that wasps/bees are attracted to flower-colored clothing.

Wasps are pure evil.

The good news is yellow jackets (some are also known as meat bees) don't sting. They bite - so there is no stinger to have to pull out. And, luckily for them, they can bite repeatedly without dying!

While camping, I've seen one of these suckers chew off a piece of bacon about 1/3 the bee's size and fly away with it. I've also had one think my lip with bacon grease on it was breakfast.

I got tagged by a yellow jacket mountain biking thursday night. Not fun.

I can relate. Some unknown stinger nailed me on the front of my neck while descending a fast hill on the 4th of July. MAN! I don't remember how the sting site becomes so itchy in the several days after

It was actually yellow/black striped....my team's kit....maybe the yellow jacket thought I was its daddy?!?

Wasps with daddy issues ... now we've heard everything.