I was much closer to the nest, and they didn't bother me ! [I hate insurance companies, and don't care much for their people, either!]
Our ins. guy creeps me out....stepford idiot...
I had a couple of bumble nests last year...got the crap stung out of me a couple times...they do not act like honeybees...one bunch simply got doused in diesel four or five times, couldn't burn or smoke them out as they were in a building I want to keep...and the other bunch was in a piece of tin stovepipe...<GRIN>
160,000 BTU propane burner at full bore in one end and a piece of hardware cloth on the other...