Oweeeeee!!!!!!! Those yellow jackets are so persistent too.......hope you're both okay tonight!! Another home remedy is water and meat tenderizer paste. It really takes away the sting. If my memory serves me correctly (my ex was a bee keeper at one point until he developed an allergy) honeybees are the only ones that leave their stingers behind as the sting literally pulls their "behinds" out of their body and they die. All the rest can come back for more.