Experience been stung by a wasp

Wasp?

http://bugguide.net/node/view/572/tree

or Hornet?

http://bugguide.net/node/view/554/tree

I ask because in my experience, hornets seem to be bigger garbage pickers than wasps.

 

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I am unsure what your point is. Wasp are distinct from hornets like Robins are distinct from bluebirds.

So in your experience, are wasps or hornets more likely to be garbage pickers?

 

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Which one pollinate flowers ? from experience those who are garbage picker do not attack me those that are by flowers I have been attacked

 

They all pollinate flowers to some degree.

I dunno what your doing to provoke these attacks. Other than sweat bees, I think I have been stung by a hornet 3-5 times in my life, bitten by a wasp twice and never stung by a honey bee or bumble bee. Both wasp bites were because I was too close to the nest. Hornets will sting for no reason at all, other than its angry for not being able to find its way off my porch (as one example).

http://www.everythingabout.net/articles/biology/animals/arthropods/insects/bees/sweat_bee/

 

As a person gets stung , the insect proportionally to the human body is small so the amount of poison is small . So the pain it causes is it due to our own immune system delivering of antibody or the formic acid injection ?

 

Ants, bees, wasps and hornets have different poisons/venoms. Allergic reactions are mostly the body's immune response to proteins, which vary from insect to insect. The poison/venom portion is not always the protein part. Formic acid is probably one of the least dangerous of the components, though it does result in a welt and stinging.

I have been stung by honey bees which sting once leaving the stinger behind and die, bumble bees which can sting repeatedly and yellow jacket (or paper wasps) which also can sting repeatedly. No alergic reaction to any though none would I say a pleasant experience. Ants being the lesser of the bunch and I have run into at least 4 or 5 varieties, of those.., not all equal.

A sister and my mother were both allergic to bees and carried epinephrine.

A sting from any of these will result in pain and some local swelling. Excessive swelling should be treated as potentially allergic reaction and can be life threatening. If you are allergic you should find out for sure and carry appropriate emergency medication. That usually means see a doctor and get an epinephrine (epi) pen.

 

There are some benefit of some wasp sting.
http://www.biosciencetechnology.com...ifferent-types-tumors?cmpid=horizontalcontent
Brazilian Wasp Venom Can Safely Destroy Different Types of Tumors
Researchers from the University of Leeds in England and Sao Paulo State University in Brazil found that the venom found in the Polybia paulista species of wasp has a powerful anti-cancer peptide. The peptide, named Polybia-MP1 (MP1), is able to target and destroy tumor cells, while leaving normal cells alone.

 

I was stung by a weird looking bee when I was 10 and I remember my arm swelling and hot. I can't move my arms and I felt feverish.

 

For antihistamine does the job in reducing the swelling