Nature

[sasha_feather]

Me: Don't touch those, they're nettles.
Ogre_911: They're what?
Me: Nettles! They'll sting you!
Ogre_911: I've never heard of them before.
Me: Did you not go outside as a kid?
Ogre_911: Not really.

A few minutes later I am paid back for my teasing when I am stung twice by wasps after accidentally kicking a nest. Ugh, the pain is not diminishing. I think it will be an afternoon of movie watching.

Comments

[toft]

Wasps! Oh noes. Do wasps nests happen on the ground? I didn't know that.

[sasha_feather]

This one did! In an old pot by the side of my apartment. :O

[toft]

Erk! I hope the stings stop stinging soon :(

[holyschist]

Often! Depends on the species, but there are definitely stinging ground-nesting ones that are pretty common.

[littlebutfierce]

Yikes! :(

[fullygoldy]

Heh, I just harvested a patch of nettles! Wearing leather gloves of course. We use the leaves in a tea for the common cold, along with chickweed and lemon balm, ginger, lemon and honey.

As I was putting the long stems into a paper bag and the seeds were falling to the bottom. B plans to plant some next to our echinacea in the back. The patch of lemon balm by the kitchen door is too well established to share the space with anything else.

[epershand]

Oh no! Wasp stings are so much worse than nettle stings! That sucks! <3

(even if there is a delightfully slapstick vibe to your story as you tell it....)

[epershand]

(I always used to go blackberrying in this place where the blackberries and the nettles twined together for mutual self-protection, so I associate nettle stings with the vindication of having gotten all the blackberries I needed for a pie...)

[holyschist]

I actually would have grown up without encountering nettles as a kid if a) we hadn't gone to Denmark when I was six (I found out what they were the very very painful way) and b) I hadn't had grandparents in Wisconsin (this is also where I stepped in a wasp nest and miraculously did NOT get stung, unlike the time I stepped in one in Oregon). I'm not sure I ever saw nettles in Oregon.

I am not sure whether wasps or nettles are worse. :-(

[laceblade]

Just wanted to say that I roll my eyes forever at Ogre_911 not knowing what nettles are, lolol.


Failsauce for wasp-stings, that sucks, :/

[amadi]

The best recipe I've found to take the sting out of stings is a thick paste made of meat tenderizer and basic white vinegar. You can also do tenderizer and water but vinegar is even more effective.

Hope you feel better soonest!

[eggcrack]

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