Worst place to get stung?

[BeeAware]

Where is the worst place you ever received a sting? Today I was feeding a nuc and decided to look inside to make sure the new queen was OK and that SHBs had not invaded the small colony. I was unaware that my veil screen had a hole in it on the left side until a bee flew inside the veil and stung me inside the left ear canal. Now, that is the worst place I've been stung to date!
It's been 4 hours and it still hurts like....

[toad]

The worst place on the eyeball by a bell hornet about 5 times the size of a honey bee!! Felt like a needle! The worst honey bee sting was in the corner of the eye, not one the eye thought.

[tct1w]

Well,wearing shorts working the hives. On the rear. On my eyelid was a little too close for comfort on another occasion. Not to bright,especially when I dropped a super this summer with no suit or smoke. Yeah its funny now but not then. My great wife came to my rescue. CU Dave

[NasalSponge]

Well...the one I remember best was the top of the nose...you instantly go blind and cry like a baby.:pinch:

[Hambone]

I wear a Chuck Norris mask at my yards. The bees are to scared to sting me.

[Hambone]

But really, Tip of the nose was a good one. But the one that hurt the worst was right on the little ball of the elbow. That one had me saying a few choice words. Most don't bother me, but that one hurt. I walked it off though.

[Beeslave]

2nd worse is in the nostrils. Worst was at the end of my, uhhhh, you know! At first I quickly got the stinger out and then thought, well that wasn't too bad. Then it started, the pain shot through my whole body. Then it felt like someone( with the strenth of 10 Chucks) was squeezing it with a pliers as hard as they could. My knees got weak and I thought I would pass out. I'm reaaaaaal careful where I pee now.

[devdog108]

behind the knee blew pretty badly....my 2 year old stpped on one of the girls tonight poor guy!

[Grant]

1) on the eye lid (produced the look of a "black eye")
2) bridge of the nose (sinuses went crazy)
3) on the back side of my upper arm, the tricep
4) finger tips and knuckles
5) lips

Grant
Jackson, MO

P.S. I am quickly becoming a wimp in my old age. I now suit up with overalls and gloves. There was a time I wore blue jeans and a tee-shirt with ample smoke.

[Hambone]

Beeslave: LOL.
The jokes are endless on this, but I will bee nice. :D

[Beeslave]

Bring it on Derek. With the terrible depressing honey crop this year I could use some good laughs to cheer me up, even if it is myself I would be laughing at. And don't tell me I should have wrapped it in bacon to make it feel better!:lpf:

[Hambone]

Ok you talked me into it. On my way to the joke forum. Got one for ya.

Oh...Not a bad idea with the bacon. :D

[honeydreams]

In the ear has got to be the worst for me so far I don't even want to think of the eye:eek:

[EastSideBuzz]

Eye lid. It makes your eye swell up a bit and it is uncomfortable. The worst places I keep really covered (BeeSlave).

I wonder if there are nudist bee keepers.? :rolleyes:

Two months ago when I only had 6 hives and they were busy building up it was OK to not wear a suit. Now I suit up. Not sure which breed is meaner when I open them up. But, It is so much more reassuring when I am in a suit that I am not going to get stung very easily. They do try hard but, my suit takes most of the stingers.

I did get stung 5 times in the head on my deck two weeks ago when one got caught in my hair. Then on Sunday another one went to the same spot on my head and stung me again, and that set one off to attack my eyelid. I think I am going to switch shampoo's they must think I am fruity.

[justin]

my policy of long underwear half the year and no underwear the other half came back to bite me. i was moving hives that i had bought into the yard this summer.it was night. the girls were not very happy and i was getting used to the stings on my neck and back when one of them made it all the way up my pant leg. the sting was really painful, but then i tried to smash to it. next time i might opt for long underwear.

[ohiomaple]

I am new to hives but have had them now for 5 months, in the hive once or twice a week learning and have not got nailed yet. Now that I said that I am probably going to get it.

My friend keeper says do not worry, it will come! :) That will take a little fun out of it when it happens.

[sqkcrk]

I can't tell you where the worst place is, this is a family forum after all. But take my word for it, it could put you on the ground and getting the stinger out is almost as bad as the sting itself. So, if bees start crawling up your pants legs get them before they get you.

[GRIMBEE]

Inside the nose for sure. Made me run from the hives like a little girl. :cry:

[BeeAware]

EastSideBuzz,

I once had an ad for mason bees in a national magazine and was contacted by a lady from Virginia who wanted to get honeybees. I ended up helping her find some equipment and packages of bees to get started. She continued to email me for a year or more asking questions about bees etc and she told me that she was part of a group of naturalists who had purchased a farm in Virginia and they grew organic produce and raised some farm animals there and often did the field work in the nude. I did not ask, but wish now I had, if they ever worked with the bees in the nude! I think there was about 12 of them who lived on the farm. As far as I know they are still keeping bees and raising their own food.

I've had many of the stings mentioned in this thread, but the one in the ear has by far been the worst. I usually wear only a veil for protection and then just work pants and t shirt, so I get a few stings. Most are nothing more than minor annoyances.

[WGB]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRfuH7qarrA

[Nan3902]

On the top of my cheekbone, 1/4" from my eye. SWELLING...on 1/2 of my face for 5 days ! Someone else mentioned this area wreaking havoc with their sinuses...it has been one month since and my sinuses are still trying to cope (after 2 antibiotics). One bee snuck into my veil somehow.
Nancy

[EastSideBuzz]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRfuH7qarrA

I should have known that there would be some moron out there doing "Oh Natural" beekeeping.:pinch:

[smith]

Probably New Jersey!

[NasalSponge]

OK...U do know the toughest man alive is an OKIE....Right?

[JAK]

Hey Folks,

Never got one on the ear or nose (I'm sure they hurt).

I received a few on the eyelid and they were very painful.

However, the worst for me was the one on the lip. The lip hurts terribly, but I think the worst is that you swell up so bad that you can't do anything but drool safely! Every time I would talk, I'd cut the inside of my lips with my teeth. I couldn't do anything but drink fluids for a whole day, as you end up carving up the inside of your mouth with any other action.

Talk about Mushmouth from Fat Albert, that's exactly what it was like. Very uncomfortable.

JAK

[sqkcrk]

You guys need to get out an work more hives. The places you all mention are painful, but nothing like what I wrote. They all hurt. Some to lesser degree depending on where.

[bnatural]

You guys need to get out an work more hives. The places you all mention are painful, but nothing like what I wrote. They all hurt. Some to lesser degree depending on where.

I haven't been stung there, yet, but I did pick up a tick down there once from horseback-riding. THAT was not a pleasant discovery. But, more psychological than anything else, certainly not painful.

Bill

[Rohe Bee Ranch]

Let me just say that wearing a Beejacket just doesn't cover low enough sometimes. The girls just don't seem to like denim blue jeans or their brass zippers. :eek: :lpf:

[Deeptime]

I can usually tell 3 minutes before I'm going to get stung --that's when I notice my smoker has gone out and I say,"aw heck, I can finish without it".:doh:

[wannabeekeeper]

50' from the truck after an over night hike, I was the 3rd person to walk over a yellow jacket nest in the ground. They stung me multiple times on the inside of both ankles. It took 24 hours but my feet were so swollen I couldn't even get on a pair of thongs and my feet turned blue on me.

[Truchaos]

I had a very hot hive, which oddly was my favorite hive. They were very unpredictable, one day docile and the next, WATCH OUT!. I always wear a full body suit when I work that hive because they occasionally would launch out of the hive like a fire hose directly at my face. One day I had the top off the hive and I placed the inner cover on it's edge against the back of the hive (smoked it a little). The next think I knew, suddenly I felt many stings simultaneously on my ankles. I looked down to see my socks covered in bees, all stinging me through the socks (I'm tall so the suit legs don't cover my ankles leaving my socks exposed). Someone mentioned running like a little girl. Well, I was running like a girl and yelling some very colorful language. I couldn't get them off my ankles. I was batting at them and running, they stung me all they way to the front door.

I think I was stung maybe two dozen times on my ankles. They even got down in my shoes and stung the tops of my feet. Once on each arm and leg (through the suit) and once on the chin when I leaned forward and my chin touched the veil screen.

I was so stiff the next day I missed work and was sore for a week. The next time I visited the hive, they were very pleasant to work.

[toad]

Up the pants, on the eye lid, on the nose and were ever else everyone has replyed, PLEASE on the eye ball by a bell hornet, Four times bigger than a honey bee, And no one has shown any simpathy!

[chrissv]

Reminds me of that old Golf joke:

Golfer 1: I was playing a round, and I got stung by a bee.
Golfer 2: A bee! Where did you get stung?
Golfer 1: Between the first and second hole...

:lpf:

[talkingamoeba]

Inside the nostril and the hollow behind the knee.

[uncletom]

I've been playing with the little critters for over 35 years now and I figure I have been stung everywhere.... I mean everywhere. As a teenager, my jeans had many holes... It wasn’t fashion back then, it was just plain poor. Also I used to make a little spending change by charging the neighborhood kids to watch me open the hives in my swim shorts. So when I say everywhere.... I mean it.

But..... The worst most painful sting I ever suffered was smack dab on the end of my nose. I didn’t even have a hive open, Just walked down by the stands to peek at them working. I was still 15, maybe 20 feet behind them and one of the little so and so's made a beeline and nailed me on the end of my nose! My sinuses emptied immediately. As did my tear ducts. I couldn’t see, liquid flushing down my face, I stumbled away with a pain like I had never felt before. I m not sure how long the misery did last but it seemed like hours.

That, is the worst I ever got stung.

[luvin honey]

Well...the one I remember best was the top of the nose...you instantly go blind and cry like a baby.:pinch: Does this have anything to do with your screen name? :)

I figure I've gotten about 50 this first season, so I've started wearing gloves :) The worst I ever got I wasn't even working the hives, just watching them. I took one to the forehead. It felt like someone had smashed me in the face with a hammer and my face looked like a freak of nature for days.

[hilreal]

Scariest I got was when the veil got too close to my throat and nailed me near the jugular. Given the vacinity it was difficult to tell if the swelling was the normal reaction or an allergic one.