The earth wasp got this name due to the fact that it arranges its house in the ground. At first glance, it is small, but made in such a way that a brood can fit in it. These insects live separately, but during the breeding season, females place cells close to each other. The result is a whole hornet's nest. Earthen wasps feed on aphids, small midges and pollen of plants. They feed their future offspring with dead insects that remain after spiders.

Ground wasps are very aggressive and therefore dangerous. If these stinging hymenoptera neighbors have settled on the site, they can be destroyed with the help of chemicals or folk methods. The second option is less harmful and quite effective. Wasps should be destroyed when it gets dark and adults return to their homes to spend the night. But you still need to be careful, angry individuals can fly out of their hiding place and injure. The safest and most effective folk method of dealing with them is burning the nest, but you can simply pour boiling water over it or pour diesel fuel around it.

Ground Wasp Sting

Earth wasps in the garden are very dangerous neighbors. A person may not notice the nest and step on or break it during excavation. At the slightest damage to the home, the wasps attack and sting. Wounds after stinging them are not only painful for a person, but also dangerous, as they can cause an allergic reaction, edema, and fever.

Earth wasp

Striking, the insect does not leave a sting, but simply injects poison and flies away. This place then hurts, swells, turns red, begins to itch badly. If you have an allergy, you should definitely consult a doctor.

If, while working on the site, a person felt the bite of an earthen wasp, what to do in this case? If she stung in the leg, then a tight bandage applied to the wound will help, which will prevent the poison from spreading further through the body. Ointments Elokom, Sinaflan, Advantan also help well. They relieve pain, skin redness and itching. But it should be borne in mind that they may cause side effects in case of intolerance to one of the components that make up their composition.

In addition, ointments can help if a person is not allergic to wasp venom. Otherwise, the wound inflicted by these insects is very dangerous, since if assistance is not provided in a timely manner, it can lead to serious consequences, and sometimes even death. Therefore, if after the wasp has stung, strange reactions of the body appear (nausea, dizziness, loss of creation, profuse swelling), you need to urgently seek medical help.

You cannot do without the help of a doctor if the following symptoms begin to appear:

  • general malaise that lasts for several hours;
  • the body is covered with a rash or watery blisters;
  • body temperature has reached 38 ° C and even more;
  • the site of the lesion is severely swollen;
  • nausea, vomiting, dizziness, shortness of breath and tachycardia appeared;
  • after the attack of the wasp, anaphylactic shock and Quincke's edema occurred.

Note! Wasp poison is very dangerous for a person who is sick with diabetes of any type.

Earth wasps

All these symptoms are very dangerous and if they occur, you should not hesitate, it is better to immediately go to the hospital to start timely treatment, otherwise suffocation may occur from edema of the internal soft tissues. You should definitely consult a doctor if a swarm of earthen wasps attacked a person and stung several individuals.In this case, the concentration of poison in the blood increases, and if a person is not susceptible to allergic reactions, it is still very dangerous.

Earth wasps feed not only on pollen, but also on meat, fish, and fruits. In summer there are a lot of them near the garbage cans. Therefore, they are carriers of infection, and their poison is toxic, hence a different reaction of the body after a sting arises. It is impossible to protect yourself completely from wasps, since they can crawl under clothes, they can be easily pinned down without noticing or even wanting to. In any case, you should be extremely careful, especially in July and August, when the fruits are ripe.

Important! It is extremely carefully to protect children from contact with earth wasps, since a young, fragile organism is more sensitive to their poison. If the wasp nevertheless stung the child, it is better to immediately seek medical help without self-medication.

How to help with a wasp sting at home

If it was not possible to avoid unwanted contact with the wasp, and it still stung, you can lubricate the bite site with any ointment: icecaine, heparoid, prilocaine, vipratox, nurofen, dolgit, nise, ketorol. They relieve pain and swelling when applied immediately after an insect has stung. In case there is not a single remedy in the home medicine cabinet that could help relieve pain and swelling, you can treat the bite with folk methods. They are no less effective than ointments.

After stinging a wasp, the first step is to examine the wound.

After stinging a wasp, the first step is to examine the wound. Sometimes a wasp, if pressed down hard, can leave a sting that must be pulled out. It is recommended to treat the bite site with an antiseptic. If your home doesn't have hydrogen peroxide or alcohol, you can use soap, vodka, plantain, or parsley. To relieve swelling, you can compress with a soda-salt solution. To do this, in 1 tbsp. water is diluted in 1 teaspoon of salt and soda, a piece of gauze or bandage is moistened in the resulting solution and applied to the site of the lesion. Ice or calendula tincture relieves pain and swelling well, which is enough to lubricate the wound once.

Hornet bite

Note! A vinegar compress relieves pain from wasp poison. If the insect has stung far from home, then you can use any sour berries, sorrel leaves or dandelion juice, as well as human urine.

Helps from a bite onions and bay leaves, which must be applied to the wound. Compresses from tansy, plantain leaves, yarrow relieve pain and swelling. You can make baths by adding clove, rosemary or eucalyptus oils to them. Positive results can be obtained by treating the skin with propolis and honey.

If there is a tendency to allergic reactions, you need to take an anti-allergenic drug and drink as much liquid as possible. Any drinks with a high sugar content are suitable. Frequent drinking will promote a profuse urination, and thus the toxins obtained after the sting will be eliminated from the body.

Helps bite onions and bay leaves

Important! People who are susceptible to allergies, asthmatics and heart disease when going out into nature or on a vacation should always have with them any antiallergenic drug, an inhaler, pills of the heart group, a tourniquet. In the event that an insect has stung an arm or leg, a tourniquet will help stop the spread of toxins throughout the body.

How quickly the pain from the wasp poison passes

Usually, the pain and swelling from stinging wasps will go away rather quickly. After 10 days, the person will no longer remember that he was stung. There are cases when, after a year, the place of the lesion reminds of itself with aching pain, but this is already happening rather on a subconscious level.

Anaphylactic shock is the most dangerous when bitten. The reaction takes place from a few seconds to 5 hours. In some cases, if urgent measures are not taken, it can be fatal. Therefore, if any signs appear:

  • strong pain;
  • darkens in the eyes;
  • the lesion site swells rapidly;
  • a rash appears around the tumor;

Then this is anaphylactic shock, you urgently need to go to the hospital.

Hornet bite and its consequences

Important! Quincke's edema can be another reaction to wasp venom. It is also dangerous as it causes suffocation. The swelling does not go away quickly, usually only visible on day 2 or 3.

Thus, wasp bites are far from harmless, and you should be more careful during their activity. You should not tease insects, much less invade their nests, otherwise everything may end sadly.