jdmidwest Posted July 2, 2013 Posted July 2, 2013 I am suffering from the cost of doing this new little hobby of mine. I went thru the hives on Sat. and did alot of work on them without a sting. There were 2 bees that were really mad and chased me around the yard with my suit on, dive bombing my face mask. I did the usual, walked away from the hives a good distance to where they normally lose interest in me. Those 2 suckers kept at and one got the clapping hands and a good stomping. The other gave up. Sunday around noon, I walked down and checked in on the girls. All of a sudden, there was this buzzing in my ear. Then it bounced off my hair, which usually ends in entanglement and a sting, but I dodged it. I went running back up the hill with that buzzing noise still loud in my ears waving my cap at it. Around the pine trees and what should have been safety, then it hit me. Fire shot into my finger. I looked and pulled out the poison sac, then the barbed stinger. He still made a few more whacks on me but he was disarmed. The finger started swelling and I applied the sting relief. By the afternoon, the whole finger was swelled tight and throbbing past the knuckles into my hand. Here is what I have today, looks like a huge blood blister. It itches like the dickens and I still can't bend the finger. "Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." — Hunter S. Thompson
jdmidwest Posted July 3, 2013 Author Posted July 3, 2013 Nope, just one little ole rambo bee with a grudge. "Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." — Hunter S. Thompson
Mitch f Posted July 3, 2013 Posted July 3, 2013 Well, it's one of the risks of your hobby! "Honor is a man's gift to himself" Rob Roy McGregor
Wayne SW/MO Posted July 3, 2013 Posted July 3, 2013 Maybe you have some of the bad genes invading the hive? Today's release is tomorrows gift to another fisherman.
oneshot Posted July 3, 2013 Posted July 3, 2013 Find it funny,years when I was younger robbed many Bee Trees and never remember being stung. oneshot
jdmidwest Posted July 4, 2013 Author Posted July 4, 2013 Found a new level of pain yesterday, got stung in the ear hole. Whole side of face and ear swelled up today. "Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." — Hunter S. Thompson
exiledguide Posted July 4, 2013 Posted July 4, 2013 That's why I don't do hives. My reaction when stung was not as bad as yours but I decided I could buy local honey easier than visiting the Doctor. Now, if I was only allergic to cut grass.
jdmidwest Posted July 4, 2013 Author Posted July 4, 2013 I still have to buy my own honey. "Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." — Hunter S. Thompson
Quillback Posted July 4, 2013 Posted July 4, 2013 I thought you bee keepers built up an immunity to stings.
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