Walked in my shed at my place at Sam Rayburn to get a gas can. Reached to move my weed eater out of the way to get my gas can and something hit me on my elbow. At first I thought it was a snake as bad as it hurt. Hand and arm started going numb, hurt like hell and scared the [censored] out of me. Jerked my arm when I got stung and hit my weed eater and knocked a big chunk of hide off back of my hand.

Was bleeding like a stuck hog, wife freaked out though snake bite me on the hand.

Not sure what stung me. Hand arm went numb for a while. Elbow hurt most of the afternoon. Even made me kinda sick at my stomach for a while.

I’ve been stung before, wasps, yellow jackets, bees and hornets etc. but nothing like this. Whatever it was hurt damn bad. I got stung by a Hornet fishing a team tournament in the mid eighties on lake Corpus Christi, it hurt but not as bad.

Wife thinks it was a scorpion, I think it was a wasp and I had a reaction to it.

Everyone I know laughs about how stinging objects have sought me out my entire life. I have been stung by wasps dozens of times. It always hurt, but that was about it. Eight years ago I was mowing when something stung me just below the knee on the back of my leg. It felt like someone stuck an icepick in the back of my leg, but I never saw it. About ten days later I was mowing in the same place and I got stung again in almost exactly the same spot on my leg. This time it felt like I got shot. It hurt so bad I would have screamed the same profanities if Mother Teresa and Billy Graham had been standing beside me.

This time my upper calf got very red and swollen. By the next day the redness and swelling had moved around to the front of my knee. I went to my doctor. She gave me a shot of some kind and an antibiotic, and said the main thing I needed to do was make sure it didn't happen again, especially near my head. I had never had a reaction anything like that.

A year or so ago a red wasp stung me on the forearm, and my arm got swollen from that, too. Apparently I have developed an allergic reaction as I got older.

By the way, a few days after the second sting from what I am sure were yellowjackets I saw that something had dug up the ground right where I was stung and the honeycomb looking nest was on the surface and torn up. If I could find the raccoon who dug up and ate those $*&@!+?s I would treat him to a crawfish dinner and pin a medal on his chest.

I'm with your wife...I've gotten hit by a scorpion on my foot. It's a pain unlike any other sting and it causes numbness and other issues. Not a fan.

We had more scorpions than rocks when we lived in the hill country. They liked crawling into your bath towel when you weren't looking. Toweling off after a shower without checking that bath towel would wake you up in the morning. I got zapped a few times but luckily I never had my stinger stung.

As soon as I could catch my breath and get a little feeling back in my hand I went hunting for what stung me. I sprayed diamond WP or whatever that bug spray I mix up from tractor supply.

I never saw anything while spraying. Later that afternoon I had a kinda sorta black and red wasp fly in the garage. I went after him with my ball cap. He was not afraid of anything and I finally got a good lick on him. Maybe that’s what stung me.

Go back in there, dig around and see if you can find the beast

Scorpion will get your attention for sure. Hate those lil bastards.

Bumble bees hurt much worse than yellow jackets and come out of holes in the ground.

Could have been one of these - Tarantula hawk wasp - saw my first one of the year yesterday

Had one hit me in the head a couple years ago when I ran over a ground nest on a tractor. Felt like a punch, then I got dizzy with throbbing pain. After a few beers I went Hiroshima on that nest,

Scorpions love to get under blankets and towels and they fall off the ceiling during certain times of the year. Also show up in the bathtub when you least expect them. Sting feels like a glowing hot nail.

Yellowjackets suck. One of my college room mates died at 47 of anaphylactic shock during a family bbq. He was stung multiple times on the neck and head an suffocated several minutes later. Although most likely too late, upon arrival paramedics tried a tracheotomy but his throat was too swollen. Watch out for yellowjackets if you are allergic...little bastards are no joke for some people.

Over the last 18 years had several scorpion situations. I’ve been stung 4-5 times, kiddos too.
Started using “demon” around the outside of the house several years back with really good results.
Also pretty cool to invest in a black light and walk around yard and pasture. I chit you not they glow so bright neon you can see them 30 ft away

good advice , what is the exact name of this " demon " stuff ?
My sons lives in Lipan and gets small scorpions in his house . His wife thinks they come in through the septic line ? She has seen them in their shower several times .

I was playing golf one time , on hole #8 , addressing my tee shot when a yellow jacket got under my shirt and stung me three times . I reacted really quickly and tried to " smash " it , pulled out my shirt and finally thought I got rid of it . After I finish hole #9 , I decide to check out my stings at the clubhouse and take a leak --- little bastard was in my underwear --- thankfully it was dead . VERY grateful it was dead and didn't sting my pecker or balls