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BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. => Topic started by: dpence on July 19, 2008, 08:02:27 pm
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I had a very interesting experience. I had moved frames from a nuc into a full size hive and the girls were a little irritated...no stings just buzzing around my veil you know. A while later I wandered back out in the yard to see how they were doing and activity seemed to be normal. I had a worker fly into my ear and continue to just buzz. I didn't want to try to remove her so I casually walk into the house and ask my wife if she would remove the bee from my ear. I think she freaked more than I did. She plucked the worker from my ear and that was that. She never stung me, odd enough. Nonetheless an experience.
David
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That is odd.
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She found a source of wax ;)
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Ooooohhhh Beehopper!
THAT was FUNNY!!!!
your friend,
john
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ewww, I think I'll pass on honey from that comb... :-D
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I had a close call with a bee that got under my veil and it went into one of my nostrils, buzzing away, I was anticipating the sting at any moment, Thumped my nostril a few times and the bee exited, then re-entered, I expected the sting again, but it never happened, boy was I lucky!!
...JP
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dpence, JP or anyone for that matter, kudos for keeping cool during situations like those, since I wear two hearing aids, I don't worry about bees getting in, but they do sound like chainsaws when they get right up there to the microphones, but up the nostrils :shock:
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Can you hear me NOW? :-D
It's a bit late, but I just thought of it. :-D
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One of my sons had a bee fly in his year when he was 3. He wouldn't leave the house without wearing a wool hat pulled down over his years for the rest of the summer. :shock:
He's 8 now and won't go anywhere near my hive. No hat though.
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That brings back bad memories. About 12 years ago I was cutting grass and ran over a ground nest of yellow jackets. They flat out tore me up. I got stung too many times to count with 3 in one ear and 3 in the other. I got about 20 out of my hair (I had a lot more back then) once I got into the house. That had to be some of the worst sting pain I have ever had, including the hornet hit to the temple 2 years ago. I waited about 15 minutes ofter the yellow jackets got me and watched and found the 2 entrances they were using and, with a full 5 gallon jug of gas, had a large roasting party.
Thanks for the memories. :roll:
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Can you hear me NOW? :-D
It's a bit late, but I just thought of it. :-D
:-D I can always count on someone for that.
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One of the things learned with beekeeping is keeping your cool. Typically people will swat at a stinging insect if they think its a threat. Most of the time, they are curious or you just happen to be in their path. The worst thing I can remember is having a bumble bee zoom in my helmet while riding a motorcycle when I was young, it got me good before I could stop the bike and toss the helmet. Another time I was mowing a field and ran over a nest of them, never got stung but sure did get some head butting. I found road gear on the tractor pretty quick... :-D
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I like bumble bees, they're probably more dossile than the honey bees are, even though they don't up and die from stinging you.
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I like bumble bees, they're probably more dossile than the honey bees are, even though they don't up and die from stinging you.
I like them also but man do they pack a powerful sting!!! Worse I've ever encountered.
...JP
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I like bumble bees, they're probably more dossile than the honey bees are, even though they don't up and die from stinging you.
I like them also but man do they pack a powerful sting!!! Worse I've ever encountered.
...JP
Bumblebees Sting :? can't say I was ever stung by one, but thanks for the warning.
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I like bumble bees, they're probably more dossile than the honey bees are, even though they don't up and die from stinging you.
I like them also but man do they pack a powerful sting!!! Worse I've ever encountered.
...JP
Bumblebees Sting :? can't say I was ever stung by one, but thanks for the warning.
Don't confuse bumbles with carpenter bees that rarely if ever sting, even when provoked, bumbles will sting you IF you are over their nest which is usually in the ground.
...JP
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Some bees just don't want to sting. I am grabbing a bee and making it sting me every few days to build better resistance. I give up in frustration on about 1 out of 5. The other four will sting you pretty much as soon as you make contact, but that one you can press against your skin all day with no sting.
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I like bumble bees, they're probably more dossile than the honey bees are, even though they don't up and die from stinging you.
I like them also but man do they pack a powerful sting!!! Worse I've ever encountered.
...JP
Bumblebees Sting :? can't say I was ever stung by one, but thanks for the warning.
Don't confuse bumbles with carpenter bees that rarely if ever sting, even when provoked, bumbles will sting you IF you are over their nest which is usually in the ground.
...JP
No confusion here. I have actually let BumbleBees take sugar water from my fingers in the past, the Carpenter Bees get the badminton treatment. :evil:
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I still vividly remember being stung multiple times by a bumble bee that inadvertently flew down my shirt as I was running into the house when I was about 12. It took my dad a minute to figure out why I was screaming and jumping up and down before he pulled off my shirt and chased down the perpetrator. One sting was in my underarm and another couple on my chest....boy did that hurt. Made me mad at bumble bees for quite some time after that.
--Steve
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Brings back memories of being 12...
My cousins and my family were on vacation camping somewere in the midwest, and we were enjoying the show put on by one of the campground's bugzappers...really cool to watch the flash and hear the "BZT" everytime a moth flew in there.
Until a moth flew into my cousin's ear.
He tried to get it out, but it wasn't going to come out.
Me, being a sarcastic wiseacre, said "don't stick your the earpiece of your glasses in your ear". He heard "stick the earpiece of your glasses in your ear" and promptly did it, stuffing the moth all the way into his ear.
It didn't come out, no matter what they tried. It just sat there next to his eardrum and flapped, causing what must have sounded like the inside of a kettledrum being attacked by a hyperactive 4 year old child.
They had to rouse some poor doctor out of bed, he had a special syringe, and it came out the first try, and costed them $80.
You got off easy!
Rick
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I to had some frame like that. With cut comb. :)
My-smokepole
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I have a bad back & have had back surgery which didn't do much good . When I get out of bed in the morning I have trouble just walking so needless to say I don't
run much . Last summer I drove my riding mower overtop a yellowjackets nest & before I knew what was going on there was a cloud of them around & on me . I found out that I could still pickem up & putem down pretty fast . Good thing that mower had a switch under the seat that killed the mower when vacated .
Also got some type of bug in my ear one time that liked to drive me crazy . My
wife suggested holding a flashlight over my ear & maybe the bug would come to the light . Worked like a charm .
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Lets see, I have been bitten by a stingray in the caymens(photo posted before on this forum), stepped on a sting ray and got stung in Florida on my foot(very, very, very painful) stung over a hubndred times by EHB's( causes one to vomit), stung by 25 YJ's last week(hurts, and itches more than EHB), stung by bumble, and hornet, but the bite that hurt the most is a close tie. Either stepping on the stingray(hurts for hours and at high threshold), or getting bit by a 7ft reticulated python in college, not once but twice. Couldn't dislodge the teeth and whn I did, bit me again before i could blink. Hand and shoulder! I also got bit by a "pet" racoon in 5th grade as part of the traveling phildalphia zoo in front of whole class. & stitches to close that one. Oh yeah, blue claw crabs can really do anumber on a finger too. Scar for that one.
Brings back a lot of memories. Not necesarily good ones!
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Konsadad, IMO... You win!!!
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I stepped on a devil ray once, but I got lucky and it didn't sting me.
What also hurts is getting jabbed right in the pressure point between the thumb and forefinger by a gulf catfish fin spine, and having it thrash a bit with your hand stuck to it...
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Hey Sgt!!
THATS what i was talking about awhile back when I was telling about the hardhead stuck in my hand!
Oh Yeah, I KNOW you KNOW what you're talking about!! :shock:
your friend,
john
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John, yep, there is nothing I have experienced that even comes close to that kind of pain. I was lucky that I got stuck on the last day of our vacation, had it been earlier in the week, it would have ruined the whole vacation for me. Good to know I'm not the only person that's ever had that happen. I'll tell ya, I learned my lesson, and I'll never remove one from the hook while it's still alive again. That one catfish just signed the death warrant of every other catfish that ever bites my line again.
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Haaaarrrrrgh!!!!
When I got stung by the hardhead, the following day i almost drowned in the pool where we were camped at :shock:!
I was in the pool and i hollered at my buddy James to toss me my mask, which he did....Me, the idiot I am, said to myself,"Gee, I''ll do like in the movies and put this mask on underwater".....So, I stuck it to my face and INHALED!!!!...HARD!!!!....WHAT WAS I THINKING????? :-P...All instinct kicked in IMEDIATELY!!!. ...
Now, as James saw the performance unveil right before his eyes, he told me what he saw and heard!!!
He said, firstly, he heard a big GRUNT from under the water, sort of like a Hippos grunt!!.....Then he saw ME come shooting out of the water like a TRIDENT MISSILE!!..He said it was the greatest thing he'd ever seen!
Now, I remember hitting the cement walkway....I remember gasping for air and my lungs wouldnt breath!!..The best i could describe the sound was like a walrus going "HAAAARPHHH, HAAARRRPHH, HAAARRPHHHH, over and over....You know, like the sound a seal makes when it barks except in a deep base tone!!....Then, finally, the water came shooting out of my lungs!!!..Came out my mouth, my nose!!...I threw up a ton of water too!!
Then, I couldnt stop laughing from the look of fright I saw in james and his wifes faces!!..They thought i was "Buying the Farm"!!...So did I!!!
Anyways, after all was well, we had a few more beers....
James said to me, with a look of awe, "darn John,...I ain't EVER seen a pool clear out that fast!!"
I remember thinking about this when he said it..I did recollect,.....There were about 20 people in the pool when this happened, and when I was done drowning, the only people left around the pool were James, his wife Nancy, and ME! :-D
And guess what Kathy!...This was at Port Isabel!..Sailor Bobs Motel and Campground!
your friend,
john