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Please define local swelling vs. remote swelling.

In Australia we would call a Yellow Jacket a European Wasp. Not the same species but the same response is warranted: terminate with extreme prejudice.

There are other wasps that are not good. A Dutch seed company has been growing carrots for seed down the road from me because the area was free of a wasp that lays its eggs in the seed pods of carrots. The eggs hatch and the larvae eat the seeds. Results in about 70% loss of viability of carrot seed. I say was because they are now having big problems with them.

As far as I know, we don't have any "pest" species in the SE US. Only very beneficial small parasitic species, and the larger predatory species and the dreaded yellow jacket, or as some people call them here: "meat wasps".

I have lots of those clay wasp nests around and they have never stung me... although my mum sat on one once and got stung, but thats her fault I say.
I leave the nests be... except in the workshops where they tend to make their nests in bad places like the air hoses to the compressor and anywhere in my boat...

Stuart: local meaning contiguous to the sting site. So if stung on the finger, swelling including hand, wrist, forearm, even elbow. Remote would be stung on the hand but hives (urticaria) on torso, groin, face, etc.

Mud dauber wasps in my experience are extremely passive and I've worked days in the attic with scores of them with never an issue.

Last time I got bitten by a Jumper Ant (I was 15) whole arm swelled up to my neck. It was contiguous with the sting but I was very glad when the swelling stopped at my neck and down my side but no further. Dr.s advised to not do that again.

Ants are rough... painful and persistent.

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When I was young I used to swell up like no ones business. I was once stung on the face by a bumblebee, and my parents were worried that I would end up with a swollen airway, so they had me sleep in their room so they could keep an eye on me. They were pretty sure that one more sting to the face would be deadly. Oddly, the next time I was stung was when I was 15, and almost no swelling, even locally. The next and last time I was stung was while working in my ap system. The bee was rather aggressive, I think that it may have been Africanized. Still little to no swelling.

The reactions I was having to the ants was getting worse rather quickly. I was advised that I might grow out of it but I wouldn't know unless I was stung again.

Stuart we have an aggressive ant with a nasty bite here in California. But your Jack Jumper is evil.