Just a picture I ran across on the net .... Ouch :sad:
Photo Caption --You should always wear your veil when getting swarms! About 50 stings on back, neck and arms when swarm fell on my head!
(http://i62.tinypic.com/34ywbkk.jpg)
Ouch....
Been there, done that. Got the T-shirt. A few times, even.....
Helps with the arthritis. :cool:
Still won't wear a veil catching a swarm.
Of course, I'm lucky. Most people react to a mosquito bite worse than I do to a bee sting.
I shook one down the back of my shirt once... 20 feet up a ladder... that was the last time I tried it without a veil. Funny how a swarm swings and then drops in a different place than you planned...
Glad to know you're okay. With that said it would've made a great Youtube video. Never had one down the shirt yet but I've had them land wrong in the nuc box I was holding underneath them. The let me know their displeasure multiple times but I could do nothing about it as I had to hold the box relatively still as they calmed down. I take off the veil once I've ascertained their mood and after the shake. Simply too pretty to get stung in the face. :wink:
Quote from: D Coates on June 02, 2015, 10:23:28 AM
Glad to know you're okay......... Simply too pretty to get stung in the face. :wink:
No not me...... And I am with you on the pretty face thing. I shook a swarm once without a veil and immediately smelled bananas. First dry swarm I shook. Only took a couple stings though.
I always wear my jacket, but once I was on a ladder and was reaching for the swarm and both my jacket and shirt were pulled up. part of it dropped and landed down my back and I had not tucked in my shirt. lesson learned.
I swell a lot. My husband thought I might end up looking like a Kardashian :cheesy:
I used a pole bucket to drop a swarm, no protection. My buddy, all worried, that I had a thousand bee on my head and back. Didn't get a single sting. One week later, I did the same thing. This time while I was emptying the bucket they were tearing my head up. Good thing I do not usually react to them because I took a lot of stings to the scalp. 30 minutes later you could not tell that I had been stung.
Jim
Used a pole bucket last week for the first time. It was at least 20ft up on a decent limb but nowhere near ladder worthy. It took me a while but I finally got it once I got directly under it. It was a big one and I always had overflow dropping towards me. It looked bad as I looked up and saw the clumps falling towards me. The clumps broke up and flew away before they hit me. I flinched the first time I saw it but didn't after that.