Ice Pack

[jx2mad]

Here I sit holding an ice pack to my left cheek. I was mowing the lawn when one of my bees decided she didn't like me any more and stung me about 2 inched below left eye. Lucky I do not usually have a reaction to stings other than local swelling and a short term pain. I keep bees as a hobby but you never know. Jim

[pop058]

I help my Bro in-law shift his hives occassionly and have never been stung. A city-boy mate tried to help and got had big time. The bees reacted to his give un-natural smell (aftershave/deodarent) and let him have it.

[p38arover]

Ooh. I hate 'em but currently am not allergic.

On Saturday, on a motorbike ride to Rylstone, bee hit me in the neck and stung me. I guess it couldn't get out from under my jacket collar. I was a tad concerned as the bloke riding with me is allergic and we'd been discussing this over coffee only a short time before. He carries an EpiPen for that very reason. I meant to get him to show me how to use it.

[Homestar]

I hear your pain P38ARover - both me and the missus have been stung by bees on the bikes. Me on the neck, and the missus got one in her helmet and it stung here just above the eye - she very nearly got cleaned up by a car a she tried desperately to pull over - not nice, but at least neither of us are allergic.

[crash]

We use to make a mixer of mud out of spit and dirt to put on bee stings - old wifes tale that seemed to work.
My brother got stung on the bottom of the foot a few times by a wasp while out dirt bike riding one time.

[101RRS]

I hear your pain P38ARover - both me and the missus have been stung by bees on the bikes. Me on the neck, and the missus got one in her helmet and it stung here just above the eye - she very nearly got cleaned up by a car a she tried desperately to pull over - not nice, but at least neither of us are allergic.

A wolf spider in the helmet also gets interesting as well - ask me how I know

[Tombie]

And yet more people are scared of snakes

Bees kill far more people every year...

As for stung riding... Yep a few times

[jx2mad]

O.K. Finished mowing lawns. Almost no swelling and pain almost gone. As for working in hives, NO DEODORANT/AFTERSHAVE, clean clothes and a very good wash with unscented soap beforehand. Bees do not like smells, particularly animal smells. They would have to be one of the cleanest insects around. I just happened to drive mower under bush where bee was. They sting as a last resort because they then die, unlike wasps who can multiple sting. My worst event was working a hive for a mate who had not done hive maintenance for years. It was a complete mess and of course when hives get like this one it is impossible to wear gloves So I took about 60 stings on each hand, even after smoking hive because I had to destroy hive an rebuild it. Result- sore slightly swollen hands for about 3 days. Jim

[fraser130]

Ooh. I hate 'em but currently am not allergic.

On Saturday, on a motorbike ride to Rylstone, bee hit me in the neck and stung me. I guess it couldn't get out from under my jacket collar. I was a tad concerned as the bloke riding with me is allergic and we'd been discussing this over coffee only a short time before. He carries an EpiPen for that very reason. I meant to get him to show me how to use it.

Reminds me of a similar incedent I had on my bike, I was going a little too fast in Kilsyth (near the hills in Melb) with the visor up and a pair of sunnies on when I copped it on the bridge of my nose from a large moth, I had to pull over really quick as I could hardly see from "goo" in both my eyes and the stars from the impact.
Ended up with 2 black eyes!

Fraser

[d2dave]

I was driving a Kenworth truck a few years ago and I saw something come in the window. I did not know what it was and thought now more of it until a few minutes later when it stung me on the leg not far from the family jewels.

Dave.