[BillS]

I don't get stung a lot, but in 50+ years I have been stung just about every where you can get stung! But yesterday I (or the bee rather) found a new place and it kind of hurt. I was walking on a lawn full of clover in my sandals thinking about how many people worry too much about getting stung. A bee got under my foot on the up stroke and got me on the bottom of my foot on the down stroke. I was surprised about two things. 1, that she managed to get through that rather thick skin, and 2, it really hurt. If I hadn't found and scraped out the stinger I would have thought it was a wasp or some thing else. Oh well one more thing off my bucket list! On the up side it has been a good harvest so far this year. Now if I can just get some goldenrod honey for my customers with fall allergies.
Bill S

 

[Santa Caras]

I was probbly 10...playing outside barefooted and a bumblebee got me right tween the toes. Walked a mile home limping with the stinger still in there so I know now I got the whole dose. Not to be facetious but..... "I feel your pain!" LOL

 

[BillS]

Bumbles are a lot worse than honey bees, but very docile. I wish they made honey.

 

[Nabber86]

When wearing sandals in high clover; your toes are the heads of a combine, the clover is stalks of corns, and the bees are the ears of corn that you are harvesting. That's always how I have thought of it.

 

[Jim 134]

Bumbles are a lot worse than honey bees, but very docile. I wish they made honey.

Bumble Bees do make honey just no volume
I also realize it is not the same consistency as it is from honey bees.


BEE HAPPY Jim 134

 

[countryconvert11]

My daughter got stung like that on a dead bee. She is talented like that.

 

[Tim KS]

I was probbly 10...playing outside barefooted and a bumblebee got me right tween the toes. Walked a mile home limping with the stinger still in there so I know now I got the whole dose. Not to be facetious but..... "I feel your pain!" LOL

If the stinger was still there, it most likely was a honeybee. Bumbles do not have a barbed stinger and can sting multiple times.

 

[BillS]

And God almighty do they hurt!

 

[lazy shooter]

And God almighty do they hurt!

Amen

 

[bbruff22]

:applause: ...this is a funny and informative thread!

 

[ChrisBex]

Now if I can just get some goldenrod honey for my customers with fall allergies.
Bill S

Goldenrod isn't the culprit of fall allergies, its usually ragweed. Since goldenrod pollen is heavier and ragweed is lighter. Ragweed gets carried in the wind.

 

[suzyq]

New to beekeeping this year and I've been stung 11 times so far! I HATE being stung in the head! Nothing worse than hearing a bee buzzing in my hair only to get stung. My grandson (he's 5) is also a beekeeper. He's only been stung once. He learned you don't pet a bees butt! Tells me I'm a 1/2 beekeeper because I've been stung so many times and he's a full beekeeper cause he's bee stung only once. lol

 

[sqkcrk]

Get him a veil too.

 

[suzyq]

Jonathan has his own veil and full beekeeping suit/with veil. Wouldn't purposely put him in harms way. He got his sting the first day when bees were super gentle and he had the opportunity to touch the bees butt. I have a veil, I just don't want to have to rely on it all the time when I'm outside of the hive. I don't go inside the hive without veil, jacket & gloves though. My stings have slowed down since I learned that.

 

[imthedude]

i do feel your pain. i stepped on one on the garage floor a couple of months ago, and it hurt like the devil and stayed sore for a day or so. i also managed to get one between the bottom of a toe and one of my sandals. that one hurt too.

 

[waynesgarden]

My daughter got stung like that on a dead bee. She is talented like that.

That answers the famous question:" Was you ever bit by a dead bee?" ~ Eddie (played by Walter Brennan) in To Have And Have Not

Wayne

 

[dsegrest]

We only wore shoes to church in the summer. I stepped on bees on a regular basis. I remember running into the house saying, "I stepped on a bee and I didn't cry."

 

[sqkcrk]

We only wore shoes to church in the summer.

What about everywhere else you went, did you only wear shoes everywhere or only to church? Did you spend the Summer at a nudist colony?

 

[lazy shooter]

What about everywhere else you went, did you only wear shoes everywhere or only to church? Did you spend the Summer at a nudist colony?

Now bee stings in a nudist colony is something to think about.

 

[the kid]

Now bee stings in a nudist colony is something to think about.[/QUO