What's the longest stretch of time you've gone without being stung?
(As a beekeeper - not counting before you were into bees)
Adam
What's the longest you've gone without getting stung?
What's the longest stretch of time you've gone without being stung?
(As a beekeeper - not counting before you were into bees)
Adam
Re: What's the longest you've gone without getting stung?
two years, but i'm allergic to bees. i am well protected and i pick my spots as to when i get deep into a hive. I also have a zero tolerance to pissy bees.
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I am allergic also and went almost a year before getting stung. I have been working my bees without gloves this year and havent bee stung yet. I dont mash as many without the gloves and in turn they dont try as hard to sting me.
psisk
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If I answer that question they are sure to tear me up tomorrow.
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Yep, I'm not jinxing myself by answering...that's like actually telling a pitcher that he's pitching a no hitter. You just don't jinx it...
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Now that I'm queen rearing, winter is the longest... but when I was a hobbiest with a couple of hives sometimes I'd go a year or two. Sometimes I'd get stung several times in one day...
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lol- i've been in the beeking world for about 2.5 months and i've accumulated approx 32 stings!
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Went a year then have been nailed 5 times in the last month or so. A few of those stings were attributable to catching a swarm barefooted and with shorts on. What an nit-wit
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weeks not months for me since my last sting
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During the winter two months maybe.
Mark Berninghausen
www.uucantonny.org, "Support Our Troops" Quit Complaining and Fix It
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From startup to first sting...about two years. Then about two months between the last few. That one on the ear yesterday was an experience!
CC
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Two weeks now but the last one was a humdinger. She got me under my finger nail. almost made a grown man cry. I don't go in without my gloves on now. Had a stinger in the end of my glove finger yesterday.
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Two and a half years. One sting.
Brian Cardinal
Zone 5a, Practicing non-intervention beekeeping
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I've only been beekeeping for 3 weeks now. Haven't gotten stung yet though. *Knock on wood*
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Shoot I have had one two year spell without a sting. and that was when I was not keeping bees. I get 3 to 4 stings a year without keeping them. and it isn't from some honey bee. these are wasps and hornets. IF you can keep bees and avoid a sting for two years my hat is off to you. I got my first sting on day three. It has actually been a long time since I had a honey bee sting. I forgot how mild they are compared to the wasp or hornet. All pain was gone in minutes and no sign of any kind in 24 hours. A hornet sting is only getting started at 24 hours. Try 32 or so at once. Been their twice in my life. the same with wasps three or four times. I am a walking venom sac. a single sting to my upper lip sent me to the hospital once. It was after that I managed to go two years without a sting. That stretch ended while laying on a bunk on a camping trip. I am some sort of magnet for stinging insects.
All work and no play makes a happy bee.
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New Beekeeper here.... Been stung twice since last month, but both times my fault. One sting in the finger was from a dead bee I was trying to pick up and toss out of the hive. The other sting was when I instinctively freaked out after having a girl land on my arm to check me out while I was wearing zero protective clothing. As soon as I tried to shake her off, she got me!When I'm actually working in the bee's I wear a full suit/veil and latex gloves. That day I was chatting on the phone in the apiary..
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Just depends on how long I stay away from the hives
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Over a year. Also allergic.
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value." Thomas Paine
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been there done that ,, got one right along the side the nail ,, that hurt worse then the one next to the eye ,, as a norm I get hit about 8 or less a year ,, my daughter has Fibromyalgia ,, when you have Fibromyalgia bee sting hurt like getting hit with a big stick ,, get it on the finger and it hurts all the way to the elbow ,,Originally Posted by stevedc
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I would average 1 sting a year per hive. Seems that I average based on hives. Since I have 20+ now, I think I'm due for another 8 stings this year.....
Had a 3 year stretch with no stings, and ended it by dropping a box and having them attack an unprotected ankle - about 40 there.
I'm now sensitive since I rarely get stung. I get a little flushed and nauseaus now, but it goes away quickly with benadryl, though the sting site stays hot for 12 hours. I put out the money for the epipens and carry them with me.
If I had it to do over again, I would have allowed myself to get stung more often.
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